Developed primarily to assist local administrators and teachers in planning and implementing secondary level vocational health occupations programs, this guide is also designed for vocational guidance personnel who assist students in making career choices. Section topics are as follow: trends in health care, health occupations education…

This final report presents five products of a health occupations project conducted (1) to update health occupations data, (2) to field test a performance-based curriculum in secondary programs, and (3) to develop materials (domain-referenced tests) to predetermine student and/or job incumbent competencies prior to entrance into a developed…

Developed through synthesis and review of existing task analysis literature, this guide lists tasks expected to be performed by workers in ten health occupations and presents information for incorporating these tasks into articulated secondary and postsecondary competency based educational programs. Task listings are presented for the following…

An operational blueprint for health career education and training was designed to provide the District of Columbia public schools with a documented strategy for implementing a comprehensive, multifocal health careers program. The blueprint will establish a mechanism for interagency communication and cooperation at all levels, involving all aspects…

This manual for school administrators and teachers is designed to aid in developing, planning, and conducting health occupations education programs at the secondary level. Guidelines for program organization and administration are offered regarding advisory committees, procedures for establishing programs, educational facilities, selection of…

This vocational program guide is intended to assist in the organization, operation, and evaluation of a program in health services occupations in school districts, area vocational centers, and community colleges. The following topics are covered: program content (job duties of physical therapy aides and orderlies and curriculum framework and…

This resource manual is designed to assist secondary health occupations instructors in implementing their health occupations programs. It contains two types of materials: informational topics and sample forms, letters, memos, and other materials. The manual begins with an overview of the health occupations education program, followed by these…

This article can be used by teachers and administrators to survey agencies that make their clinical facilities available to health occupations programs. (Editor/HD)

Describes and evaluates a health science career education program in which eighth- and ninth-grade minority students fulfill their science requirement by attending lecture and laboratory sessions at a Manhattan medical center and working individually with a professional. (DC)

This program guide provides information useful to local school districts and community college administrators, instructors, program advisory committee members, regional coordinating councils, and others charged with the responsibility of offering vocational education programs. The legal authority section relates to vocational education programs in…

Describes a tri-district program (in Utah's Granite, Jordan, and Murray school districts) to expand the health career program, which involved 62 field trips scouring the area's hospitals and health care centers, and student work experience opportunities, to expose students from 13 high schools to occupations beyond the traditional doctor and…

Goals of the secondary health occupations workshop held May 16-18, 1974, in Madison were to develop a set of guidelines for health occupations education in Wisconsin secondary schools and to increase educators' awareness of the need for such education in Wisconsin. Speeches and panel discussions were titled as follows: "Health Care…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT SECONDARY, POST-SECONDARY, AND ADULT LEVELS. A STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE SURVEY PROVIDED PROJECTIONS OF NEEDS IN VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS FOR COMPARISON WITH 1965-66 ENROLLMENT FIGURES. MOST OF THESE ANTICIPATED NEEDS ARE BEING WELL MET AND OTHERS, SO FAR, ONLY PARTIALLY. CURRICULUM GUIDES, WHICH…

Implementation and expansion of class offerings was the primary focus of the second year of a project (in Evansville, Indiana) to determine the feasibility of establishing a center for continuing education for vocational level health occupations workers within the department of vocational education of a metropolitan school corporation. (The first…

A curriculum development project was conducted to generate additional competency-based modules to be used within the articulation model for Pennsylvania dental assisting programs, established in 1988. Project activities included reviewing, modifying, and providing parallel competency-based structure for the courses at the A.W. Beattie Technical…