This collection of eighty-six secondary level career guidance practices contains the following nine types of activities: novel practices such as games and role enactments, volunteering, field trips, special career emphases, intern/extern practices, work experience and exploration practices, exchanges, mobile practices, and educator in-services. A…

Designed to provide information for local school district personnel in the state of Washington, this Community Resource Trainer (CRT) manual is the product of those school district administrators and coordinators who piloted the CRT Program in three small, rurally isolated high schools between the 1972-73 and 1973-74 school years. Illustrating the…

This second annual evaluation of three federally funded integrated model vocational education programs in the elementary and secondary grades presents program descriptions, evaluations, and recommendations separately for each comprehensive program. Selected as representative of rural, rural-urban, and urban settings in Kansas for use in similar…

This module is one in a series of four performance-based modules developed to prepare vocational educators to serve limited English proficient (LEP) students. It is designed to help the vocational teacher learn how to adapt instructional techniques and materials to serve LEP students effectively. The module is made up of a series of four learning…

This curriculum guide provides materials for a four-unit course at the secondary level in family and individual services. Unit objectives are listed and referenced to the content outline that follows. The four units cover these topics: recognizing family and individual needs, resources for meeting family and individual needs, using services to…

This fourth in a series of ten learning modules on coordination of cooperative education is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teacher coordinators skill in (1) locating training stations to access, (2) selecting training stations utilizing criteria established, and (3) convincing employers at selected training stations to…

Educational technology, new materials and methods, and a growing realization that each person learns in an individually unique way has opened up new potentials in correctional education. The delivery of education and training services is very difficult in a prison setting. However, the creative program manager can develop and implement an…

This unit, one in a series of packets of teacher and student materials for cooperative occupational education (COE) designed for special needs students, is intended to develop students' awareness of community resources as well as their civic responsibilities to the community. The instructor material includes the following items: unit objectives,…

This fourth of 14 curriculum modules in the Family and Community Services Occupational Education Modules series deals with understanding and utilizing resources, facilities, and personnel in family and community services. It is designed to help students examine resources used to help and serve clients and to become familiar with the variety of…

One of five McDonald's Action Packs, these instructional materials for ninth and tenth graders (and more able sixth and seventh graders) have incorporated ideas around three career development goals--subject relevance, career awareness, and self-awareness. The action pack contains six units--three units each in the subject areas of language arts…

This curriculum guide, an augmented and updated version of a guide developed at a June 1980 workshop, consists of materials for teaching a performance-based course in family life education. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: establishing an independent family unit, managing interpersonal relationships,…

Designed as a course to help senior high school students find their place as adults through involvement in the community, this unit allows students to work together, do volunteer work, recruit class speakers, participate in field trips, and help plan the class. This unit is divided into four sections: (1) organizing the class, (2) using the…

Standardized vocational education titles and core contents are provided for 10 home economics courses offered in Mississippi: (1) living skills; (2) exploratory home economics; (3) consumer homemaking I; (4) child care; (5) clothing and textiles; (6) consumer education; (7) family living and parenting; (8) family/individual health; (9) foods and…