Describes a three-week refresher course for business educators designed to update teachers' knowledge of changing conditions in the business world through actual work experience in different business offices after conducting job interviews at government manpower centers. Responses to the program from participating businesses, government agencies,…

The author discusses the benefits of supervised occupational experience (S.O.E.) programs in vocational agriculture for jobs requiring less than four-year college degrees. (MF)

Discusses the need for a labor education program which combines vocational preparation and moral training, in accordance with educational needs defined by the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Presents examples of schools throughout the USSR which have involved vocational students in exchanges with local labor collectives.…

Describes four ways to earn college credit: credit through correspondence and independent study, credit by examination, credit for noncollegiate sponsored instruction, and credit for past learning experiences. A list of references identifying other alternatives and degree programs is also included. (BM)

Discusses the need to keep postsecondary programs in vocational and technical agricultural training aligned with current demands from the agricultural industry. Among the approaches are inservice training for teachers and also for industry personnel, a supervised occupational work experience program, and field trips to selected industries. (MF)

Relationships among organizational factors, personal difference variables, and job satisfaction and stress is reviewed. The relationships of job satisfaction and job stress to organizational factors are examined for a sample of minority professional personnel. These relationships are studied using the personal variables of race, type-A…

Due to increasing urbanization of the area, focus of the vocational agriculture department at Zachary High School, near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has changed from production agriculture to ornamental horticulture. The area supervisor describes the facilities for student instruction and work experience in the school's greenhouses and grounds. (MF)

A high school teacher presents some guidelines for coordinating instructional activities in the classroom with resources in the community. She suggests keeping a resource file of possible activities, speakers, field trips, videotape or cassette tape interviews when trips are not feasible, work education programs, teacher exchange, materials from…

A Wisconsin welding instructor tells how he learned about the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) graduate fellowships in leadership training being offered to vocational personnel, the selection process, and the program of work combined with classes that he experienced in his EPDA year at Colorado State University. (MF)

Rockland Community College's Israel Program is more than the usual junior year abroad, offering a student a personal program of study affiliated with one of 17 participating Israeli institutions. Travel and work experience are often integrated into the study curriculum. (LBH)

A mother describes her family's experiences with her third child, a profoundly hearing-impaired male. Topics of focus include the child's special problems with communication, transportation, and work. Emphasis is on enhancing the disabled child's independence and providing equipment (e.g., communication devices, automobiles) and personal skills to…

Describes the COMPETE (Community College of Philadelphia Education to Employment) program, focusing on research and evaluation strategies to examine the success of the program. A summary of statistically significant relationships is discussed. (CT)

A sample of 1,897 adolescent workers was investigated relative to determinants of occupational status for adolescents and sex differences in determinants of occupational status. Results indicate that young males work in lower status but better paying jobs than young females. Tentative implications substantiate the existence of occupational status…

Studies the communicator styles of superiors and subordinates who rank high in argumentativeness and low in verbal aggressiveness. Claims that corporate productivity is enhanced when organizations nurture employee independent-mindedness, and that an argumentative, low verbally aggressive organizational communication climate creates the freedom…

Summer teacher internships that are employer-sponsored benefit the teachers, the employers, and the students. Most of the programs have concentrated on improving science and mathematics teaching. Educating employers and school districts about the benefits of participating in these programs is a complex and difficult task. (MD)