A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO (1) DETERMINE THE NEED FOR TECHNICIANS, (2) DETERMINE REQUIRED COMPETENCIES, (3) DETERMINE JOB CHARACTERISTICS, (4) IDENTIFY OCCUPATIONAL CLUSTERS, AND (5) DEVELOP CURRICULUMS. PERSONAL INTERVIEWS, MAILED QUESTIONNAIRES, AND FOLLOWUP LETTERS YIELDED DATA FROM 288 OF THE 914 EMPLOYERS CONTACTED. OF 13,958 EMPLOYEES OF THE…

Intended to serve as either a training program for local educators or as an idea bank for shorter career education training programs, this manual presents a five-day intensive training program based on two major thrusts. The first thrust is team building through human relations experiences. The second thrust is a sequential curriculum design for…

The guide was intended to provide the information needed to implement or improve an 11th and 12th grade career education cluster program. The authors suggest that the guide will be most useful in schools where a long-range plan for career education has been prepared and adopted by the local board of education, and where it has been decided to…

The Associate Commissioner, Bureau of Adult, Vocational, and Technical Education, U.S. Office of Education developes the Commissioner's recent statement on a new career education system by specifying objectives and curriculum development undertakings by grade levels. (MU)

This guide contains processes for planning, developing, and implementing an industry-based construction cluster program in Oregon secondary schools. Each process was pilot tested and revised by Beaverton School District during the development of a model program at Beaverton High School. The guide is intended to help other school districts…

Part of the Syracuse (New York) city school district's guided occupational orientation program, the document consists of a teacher's manual and a pre-post test answer key. The teacher's manual contains forms, data, and procedures for the teacher's use in instructing grade 6 pupils in individualized career studies in various occupations. Each…

With the aim of developing a better basis for industrial education curricula as part of career education, 12 cluster plans found in the recent literature are described in the first half of the document. Each description indicates target population, grade level, and the career clusters included, to suggest the plan's comprehensiveness and its…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this curriculum guide is the third in a series describing current, successful career education practices. Intended for teachers in middle schools, this monograph: (1) provides a definition of career education, its…

In an effort to meet the demands made on electricity and electronics training today, specific suggestions are given for the development of an instructional program that is based on employment need, that focuses on occupational clusters, and that can be implemented in the electronics area with relative ease. (SH)

To determine competencies and activities used by workers in a cross section of the statewide labor force, data were obtained from a random sample of 1,500 employed persons drawn from 14 purposively selected index counties in Nebraska. An interview-questionnaire procedure yielded an 87.7 percent response to a checklist of 144 activities, duties,…

The actual operation of vocational evaluation programs appears to be guided by orientations toward process and content. Two dominant process orientations, information gathering and information processing, can be identified, as can three content orientations: individual characteristics, specific jobs, and occupational clusters. The process and…

New Jersey schools offer a variety of career exploration programs to capitalize on youth's natural curiosity and physical energy. (Editor)

The publication is intended to convey a perspective on career education, emphasizing recognized instructional organization, processes and procedures, and concerns. The first chapter discusses the career education concept generally, as an instrument for curricular analysis and as a bridge between the classroom and the community. The second chapter…

This program guide is a supplement to the occupational cluster guides (CE 001 286-295) and contains in detail the background, philosophy, and descriptive information needed for their successful implementation. An introductory section discusses teaching children with special needs, emphasizing ways of matching teaching methods to the particular…

This study represents one phase of a broader research project designed to develop and test the Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI). The specific objective of the present investigation was to systematically derive a comprehensive set of work dimensions that could be used in describing and classifying jobs for educational purposes. The OAI was…