Technical program planners tailor curricula to the needs of industry, sometimes giving minimal attention to the needs of students. Application of the problem-solving model creates new jobs to meet the needs of students as well as industry. (Author)

This monograph describes a training course for human services personnel which covers a major function of comprehensive manpower development programs. The course provides experience with the skills, knowledge and attitudes necessary for contact work with employers and educators. Job development is a process which includes the creation, selling and…

Prepared as part of the National Dissemination Project to suggest ways in which community colleges might better serve the needs of minority and disadvantaged students, this paper focuses on the job development concept. Career education deals with all three domains of learning--cognitive, affective, and psychomotor; job development deals with the…

This report spells out the educational needs and criteria in the overall transportation systems field, offering guidelines for the educational community to help renew or develop careers in the changing transportation systems professions. Intended to allow for career mobility for those already employed in transportation, the comprehensive…

This resource guide provides practical information to educators directly involved with vocational education for the limited-English-proficient (LEP) population. Part I describes the nine major features of promising vocational education programs for LEP students: program approach, program duration, institutional support, staff commitment,…

Aimed at program directors, college officials, faculty, advisory committee members and agency field instructors, the guidebook presents information on associate degree mental health/human service program development. Background information regarding the mental health technology movement over the last ten years and various professional and…

Project Proud Option of Palmer, Massachusetts, had the following objectives: (1) develop and implement a system for assessing the functioning levels of handicapped students in institutional schools as these functional levels relate to already existing job task outlines and performance objectives; (2) develop new job opportunities within the…

Developed for adult vocational educators in Colorado, this annotated bibliography reviews relevant literature and research concerning job development and placement services for learners in postsecondary adult vocational education institutions. The included references relate to postsecondary job development, career education, and vocational…

This catalog contains descriptions of the programs funded by governor's grant funds during fiscal 1980. (The governor's grants are funds provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 for use at the state level by the state governors.) It is divided into four parts. Part 1, which identifies programs funded under the coordination…