Forms and activities used in planning, developing, and conducting a career education conference are offered in this guide for any individual or agency planning to conduct a similar activity. The basic format was to provide twenty small group sessions in which successful practitioners demonstrated methods and/or materials with a keynote speaker of…

The career planning program for the secondary grades outlines basic concepts, general and specific objectives, and methods of implementing and evaluating career programs. A six-item pretest, three-item posttest, four-item teacher evaluation form, and an occupational clusters wheel complete the document. (MW)

Describing the Work Experience and Career Exploration Project, this article presents a sequential process for establishing WECEP in a school district. (JC)

This document has been published by an ad-hoc committee with the purpose of guiding the development of industrial arts activities as an element of career education. The relationship of industrial arts education to career education and the scope and sequence of industrial arts activities within this relationship are discussed. The integration of…

This position paper on quality career guidance programs outlines basic assumptions, guidelines, a comprehensive program development model, and recommended uses. Highlights of the program development model include management questions, information, and program standards. This represents NVGA/AVA Guidance Divisions efforts to establish standards for…

Career education at the elementary level in Oregon focuses on career awareness and career exploration. At the secondary level a higher degree of experiences is developed in career exploration, which is concerned with self-understanding, occupational exploration, and career information. Career exploration provides experiences in career decision…

The guide provides background information and suggested procedures to assist school administrators in the planning and implementation of career education in a local school district. Key decision-making bodies are necessary to implement an effective career education program (school boards superintendent, principals, instructional staff, counselors,…

This package of handouts and transparencies is one of a set of six packages of consultants' materials developed to serve as a guide for consulting staff presenting career education workshops in the following areas: Counselors, primary K-3, junior and senior high, intermediate, and administrators. The 17 handouts and 3 transparencies are to be…

The booklet for implementing career education is one of the products of the career education project at Sand Springs Public Schools, Oklahoma. Areas of concern are: selection of staff, orienting the community, planning inservice training, developing goals and objectives, organizing an advisory council, establishing a placement function, using…

The goal of Career and Technical Education (CTE) is to prepare all students for successful roles as workers, family members, citizens, and lifelong learners. To achieve this goal, this document identifies basic elements that are expected within all CTE programs. These elements are the basis for any instructional program to be approved for state…

Written to help local school systems more fully utilize community expertise in their career education programs, this guide discusses the following topics in a question/answer format: What is community involvement? What challenges must be overcome to gain effective community involvement? and How are community involvement activities developed and…

Plans for the implementation of career education in the elementary schools of Oregon focus on career awareness through emphasis on the producer role in relation to other life roles. The guidelines briefly cover: program administration and coordination, student outcomes (curriculum tenets, assumptions, and outcomes, providing broad objectives to…

Designed as a resource for project directors and others who must implement career education products, this handbook is divided into two sections: a procedural guide and a set of thirty illustrated techniques. A glossary of terms and an introduction explaining basic assumptions, purposes, uses, and philosophy of the handbook precede the procedural…

The experiences of the Malheur County, Oregon, cooperative, multi-district career education project, funded under Title Three of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, formed the basis for the development of the guide. Two assumptions are basic to the establishment of a career-oriented, multi-district program: (1) that such a curriculum will…

The teacher directed document defines career education and outlines suggestions regarding career education at the community college level. The pamphlet provides outlines for a community college career education model and checklists delineating administrative personnel program responsibilities and the possible roles of staff members, including…