The guide was developed to assist elementary school counselors and teachers in working together to provide children, grades K-5, with a school experience which addresses their career development needs through developing both affective and cognitive learnings. Part 1, The Importance of Career Guidance in the Elementary School, provides a general…

A procedural guide for developing personnel training programs, the document presents a model system which is an integration of a training process outline by the Kentucky Department of Child Welfare and the HumRRO systems approach training model. The first chapter, The Systems Approach to Training, provides background information. Chapter 2,…

The handbook is intended to assist the Cooperative Work Experience (CWE) coordinator in the initiation and operation of a CWE program in U.S. Dependent Schools in the European Area (USDESEA), and allows for the many diverse and unique situations found in the USDESEA schools. Also applicable to other secondary level work experience programs, it…

Designed to assist teachers and school administrators in effective utilization of community resources within vocational-technical education programs, the manual outlines strategies in the identification, development, utilization, and evaluation of community resources available to local school districts. Section 1 provides a general introduction to…

The administrator's handbook contains seven sections, each dealing with a specific aspect of vocational education for students with special needs. Section 1 describes the process of identifying handicapped and disadvantaged students. Section 2 covers assessing the needs of such students. Section 3 discusses developing district priorities to meet…

The report of the National Advisory Council for Career Education (NACCE) presents a design for structuring and legislatively implementing elementary and secondary career education at the national level. Part 1 of the report, recommendations for career education legislation, provides a funding schedule over a five-year period to accomplish nine…

Intended primarily for special education teachers and principals, the manual describes procedures for organizing and implementing career education programs for handicapped students in rural or remote areas. The program descriptions, methods, and sample forms contained in the manual were used successfully by one or more of five small, rural school…

This report focuses on the Study of Allied Health Education (SAHE) project that was established for the purpose of designing an action plan on a national scale for allied health and nursing education. The specific task of the project was the determination of the role that community and junior colleges might fulfill in increasing ambulatory care in…

One of a series of special studies by Project Baseline, a national effort requested by Congress to gather information about vocational education and manpower training, the report traces the career education movement, beginning with a few isolated State and local activities in the mid-1960's and following it through the decade as it has become…

The overall purpose of the Quitman County Demonstration Project was: (1) to identify, demonstrate, and test effective and innovative procedures for implementing a community based, voluntary program in adult basic education (ABE); (2) to develop and validate new approaches in training the instructional leadership for adult basic education through…

The purpose of the Thresholds project was to encourage and enable mentally ill and/or emotionally disturbed young adults to utilize educational programs, becoming employable, productive, independent, and responsible community members. Part of the project was concerned with the introduction of teachers into the mental health setting teamed with…

The third edition of Manpower Research and Development Projects presents descriptions of 455 projects which are grouped by subject matter to facilitate description of the research and development program and the use of the material. The 199 doctoral dissertation grants and the 12 manpower research institutional grants are classified by subject…

The purpose of this booklet is to help elementary and secondary schools improve vertical articulation within their k-12 instructional programs. Although some authorities maintain that only an ungraded program can ultimately solve the articulation problem, this booklet describes a number of steps that can be taken to improve articulation within an…

The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science held a Mountain Plains Regional Hearing in Denver, Colorado, on September 18, 1974. The Commission was particularly interested in the present status of library and information services in the region including: cooperative efforts, state interest in a national program, the use of new…

The major task of Drake University Pre-Retirement Center for the fiscal year 1968-69 continued to be the demonstration and evaluation of different methods of involving workers in retirement preparation activities. Recruitment was from three primary groups: business, government employees, and the community at large. The center also helped the…