One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this eighth section focuses on the program support approach to utilizing the private sector. (Program support, as defined here, encompasses monetary assistances, donation of time and…

For use by administrators, teachers, counselors, students, and employers involved in a secondary level experience-based career education (EBCE) program, this packet contains six booklets of guidelines, curriculum objectives and activities, and forms. Three of the booklets deal with administrative matters: (1) Planning, Implementing, and Managing…

Materials contained in this career education implementation booklet (one in a series of seven) are designed to provide experiences for developing the skills necessary to plan and manage a comprehensive career education program. This booklet focuses on the processes of planning and implementing and is closely related to Booklet #1, Consultation and…

One of a series of 11 arts and humanities career exploration resource guides for grade 7-12 teachers, counselors, and students, this program planning guide suggests several curriculum models for out-of-school programs to augment traditional school courses. Chapter 1 introduces the guide and suggests its uses for administrators, teachers, and…

This document is Part I of the Handbook on Cooperative Education at Los Angeles Valley College (California). It was designed to standardize the procedures and policies that have proven appropriate for this college. For comparative purposes, the author studied the administration of cooperative education programs at four other California community…

The second of five documents developed as an outgrowth of funded programs for career education in Kentucky, the booklet offers practical help in implementing career education into a school system. It deals with the broader concepts permeating career education on a nationwide level and those having grown out of the practical experience of…

The program assessment guide presented in this document is designed to help the district and individual school administrators, counselors, teachers, and other support staff assess the effectiveness of their career education programs. Section 1 discusses the "what and why" of career education program assessment. Section 2 contains the…

Intended primarily for educators participating in already established local apprenticeship programs, the handbook provides information on the laws and agencies of apprenticeship, its traditions and practices, and administrative alternatives implemented in various programs. Modern apprenticeship programs are defined as combining on-the-job training…

Designed to assist teachers and administrators in planning and implementing the Applied Program of Public Service (APPS) in existing secondary and vocational curricula, this manual is the guide for three academic quarters of study (orientation, common core, and work experience). The course covers eight major community service occupational groups:…

Materials contained in the 16 volumes that make up the Rural America Series suggest practices through which rural schools can meet local community needs and realize their potential for career program delivery. This procedural handbook, one of three support functions guides in the series, is based on the premise that community cooperation, through…

One of a set of twelve documents describing the Career Planning Support System (CPSS) and its use, this guide is designed to help the CPSS coordinator become familiar with CPSS and his or her role. (The Career Planning Support System is a comprehensive guidance program management system which (1) provides techniques to improve a high school's…

This brochure is designed for elementary school administrators, and reports some of the administrative problems and responsibilities involved in the operation of programs focused on the disadvantaged, briefly points up the nature and extent of the elementary school problem, and summarizes the efforts of school systems to cope with it. The brochure…

A discussion of the school based management movement outlines the forces influencing the movement, examines the process of change as a key factor in implementation of school based management, discusses how roles of key personnel and key players shape the design and implementation of school based management, and describes the steps that bilingual…

This guide is designed to assist the distributive education teacher-coordinator and school administrator in planning and developing a program of career exploration and skill development in the field of marketing and distribution. Five major sections include the following information: statements of Arizona's philosophy of distributive education in…

Intended for both school and nonschool personnel, the text treats work study programing for educable mentally handicapped students at the secondary level. Information is provided concerning the structure and objectives of work study programs as well as the required competencies and responsibilities of the teacher-coordinator. Guidelines are…