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)

How a plastics curriculum was changed to satisfy the needs of industry. (Editor)

Obtains a classification of occupations by interests based on an ordinal rather than on a nomial scale. The occupations in each field were found to be arranged in a hierarchical order. Two substructures, one comprising five and the other four fields of occupations, were established. (Author)

To obtain information concerning the antecedents of various forms of vocational interests, scores on the 22 basic interest scales of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank were correlated with 389 life history or autobiographical data items. Presents and discusses clusters obtained for the business management, science, and adventure scales. (Author)

For the past 10 years all students have been enrolled in the industrial arts program for 13 weeks each year in the Greece Central School District, New York. The orientation phase in grades 7-8 concentrates on the construction, graphic communication, transportation, and manufacturing clusters. Grades 9 through 12 continue three levels of career and…

The integration of academic and vocational education is an educational reform strategy conceptualized by vocational educators, supported by the business community, and articulated by policy makers. Integration may improve the educational and employment opportunities of youth. Integration may offer change in an educational system that is in need of…

This document contains a task analysis for health occupations (home health aid) in the nursing cluster. For each task listed, occupation, duty area, performance standard, steps, knowledge, attitudes, safety, equipment/supplies, source of analysis, and Illinois state goals for learning are listed. For the duty area of "providing therapeutic…

This booklet provides career orientation teachers in middle/junior high and high school with ideas for bulletin boards because students learn best when ideas are presented visually. Following a brief description of the project that developed it, the bulletin board booklet gives ideas for creating bulletin boards on career exploration, the 15 job…

Described is an agriculture supply and service curriculum which utilizes student-selected modules (30-hour blocks of instruction), job titles (areas of concentration), a student-run school agricultural supply store, and work experience components. (MS)

Awareness of the role which personal characteristics play in career selection means that industrial arts teachers should select teaching methods which will help students to relate "self" to various modes of operations associated with kinds of careers. Super's eight career clusters, relating personality characteristics to career selection are…

Intended as a basic career information reference for students and others, this guide consists of the following sections: (1) an introduction that explains how to use the guide; (2) descriptions of 12 career areas and the 66 worker trait groups associated with them; and (3) nine appendices that provide detailed definitions of the work factors and…

This guide is intended (1) to facilitate individualized planning for students to ensure that their education is as appropriate as possible and to give them relevance for the work they do in school; and (2) to aid communication among staff members, parents, and students by establishing a planning process. This guide leads the counselors, teachers,…