This monograph is designed to assist individual schools to plan for, organize, implement, and manage their own elementary school guidance programs. Those school districts supporting a centralized team planning approach to program development will also find the monograph useful, but may wish to adapt some of the suggestions to fit their own…

This monograph speaks to the basic problems confronting human services programs, and offers suggestions for improving guidance services. Specific concerns addressed are: (1) the need for more systematic program planning and evaluation; (2) an approach to effective planning and evaluation; (3) development of staff skills for use in the…

A program rationale within the overall Mountain-Plains structure is outlined along with current program practice and evaluation. The new personal counseling program includes extensive use of group settings, objectives derived from evaluation, program options for students, and the introduction of evaluation instruments keyed to objectives. The…

This module is intended to help guidance personnel in a variety of educational and agency settings increase their skills in (1) choosing a theory-based practical program development model that will promote the conceptual framework for the entire planning, supporting, implementing, operating, and evaluating cycle; (2) analyzing needs and priorities…

The purpose of this booklet is to help elementary and secondary schools improve vertical articulation within their k-12 instructional programs. Although some authorities maintain that only an ungraded program can ultimately solve the articulation problem, this booklet describes a number of steps that can be taken to improve articulation within an…

In spring 1992, a group of faculty and staff at East Central College (ECC) in Union, Missouri, met to reconsider the school's orientation process, which had had limited success since its inception in 1987. The group developed a list of objectives for the orientation process and grouped them under the headings of skills, awareness, involvement, and…

This module is intended to help guidance personnel in a variety of educational and agency settings develop the competencies needed to determine whether changes are needed in the career guidance program in their agencies, to develop a rationale for identifying needed changes, and to develop strategies for change. The module is one of a series of…

Guidance and vocational education personnel have continued to play key roles in responding to individual and societal needs that have arisen as a result of the occupational, social, and economic changes occurring over the last 80 years. Guidance programs serve as the link between providing occupational training and employment readiness for the…

Reporting the effectiveness of Phase II of Portland's Career Guidance and Counseling project, this document presents the summative data documenting the goals, objectives, and participant attitudes toward the project. (Phase I centered on strategies to improve counseling staff involvement in cooperative efforts to upgrade career guidance and…

Intended to improve career guidance services on the secondary level, this operations manual was developed primarily by school counselors to assist other counselors in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of career guidance, counseling, and placement objectives in Maryland's school system. Contents are divided into the following three…