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Freshley, Lawrence – Pointer, 1978
Described is an 8-week vocational program for senior high school special education students in environmental maintenance. (SBH)
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Program Descriptions, Secondary Education, Success
Diep, Barbara J.; Welsh, Phil – 1981
The final report of the 3 year Project CAST (an Appalachia Educational Laboratory adaptation of the Experience Based Career Education Model) in Charles County, Maryland, reviews accomplishments in the areas of student appraisal, individual educational programming (IEP), joint coordination and continuing education, and dissemination and…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Disabilities
Sargent, Laurence R. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1981
The Marshalltown (Iowa) High School offers a model program for mildly retarded students involving simulated work situations, individualized instruction, integration with regular classes, and involvement in a work/study program. (CL)
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Individualized Instruction, Mainstreaming, Mild Mental Retardation
Hsueh, Fang – Prospects, 1975
This article describes how middle school students in China serve agriculture. Students are involved in inventing lamps which destroy insects, in surveying, and in mapping out underground pipelines and locations for pumps and spraying nozzles in a sprinkling system. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Comparative Education, Educational Practices, Program Descriptions
Sharpes, Donald K. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1976
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Hayes, Melissa – 1981
The Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) Program was adopted and implemented to replace the traditional work experience program for senior year educable mentally handicapped (EMH) students at a public high school. The EBCE program had two major priorities--to create a set of learning experiences which were uniquely…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Experiential Learning, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedBent, Michael T. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1976
Saint Mary's School for the Deaf is initiating a program for reinforcing the vocational experiences of the older multiply-handicapped, low functioning deaf student. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Deafness, Educational Programs, Hearing Impairments
Rochester Jobs, Inc., NY. – 1972
A program is reported for potential and actual high school dropouts that combines academic courses with work experience, and is designed to demonstrate the relationship between education and the world of work. Some of the objectives of the program were to test the feasibility of a joint educational approach of trade instructors and academic…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Program Descriptions
Morris, Joan – School Guidance Worker, 1976
Describes the Community Involvement Program which places high school students for half of the school day in social service agencies and provides an in-school seminar to relate their experiences to social problems in a larger context. (EJT)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, High School Students, Program Descriptions, Secondary Education
Download full textLuskin, Bernice; And Others – 1976
Described is a Title III work study model to provide a 4-year vocational training program for approximately 40 handicapped junior and senior high school students in Westport, Connecticut. Program activities (such as conferences with employers) and the needed professional personnel (such as a school psychologist) are outlined for each of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1978
This manual describes the cooperative work experience program for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS). The first of three sections included in the guide provides a definition and philosophy of the DoDDS cooperative work experience program. The second part of the manual provides a one-paragraph description of the cooperative work…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Education, Dependents Schools, Educational Objectives
National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA. – 1973
The report represents an abridged summary of a study which assessed secondary and postsecondary work education programs and suggested ways they might be modified or expanded. A stratified, random sample of 50 work-education sites was drawn for the study from a set of 500 representative programs. Specific occupational training, dropout prevention,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention
Council for Exceptional Children, Arlington, VA. – 1970
The implementation of a work-study program in a rural, depressed area, the operation of the program, and evaluation are discussed in the first of six papers on vocational education for the retarded. The sheltered workshop at the Kurtz Training Center in Pennsylvania is described with a focus on promoting self image and adjustment. A 6-year…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Program Descriptions
Cobe, Patricia – Forecast for Home Economics, 1976
Describes the Atlanta Area Technical School's Child Care Occupations Program, focusing on the combination day-care center/child study laboratory; course work is competency based. Utilizes a model program in training child-care workers at both the secondary and post-secondary level. (TA)
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Competency Based Education, Day Care
Shea, Mary Lou – 1978
Cooperative educational arrangements are utilized extensively by vocational educators as a practical approach to learning. Some of these arrangements are work-study, extended campus, clinical experience, internship, Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE), and entrepreneurship. The work-study arrangement provides economically needy students with…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Clinical Experience, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs
