This curriculum guide for an employment preparation course for adults who speak English as a second language consists of 10 units on information and general living skills related to employment. The guide is split evenly between basic information needed to obtain a job and information needed once a job is obtained. A unit may consist of one or four…

This curriculum is designed to for use with adult refugees studying welding. The first portion of the guide includes 21 lessons in which students are given the opportunity to develop aural comprehension and reading skills while studying such topics as body parts and clothing, safety, welding tools, arc and gas welding, fractions and measurements,…

This section on job-related instruction is one of three that comprise a program entitled Related Instruction for Cooperative Part-Time Training. (Other sections are Personal Development and Basic Life Skills.) It contains nine instructional units. Each unit includes the following basic components: unit and specific objectives, notes to the…

This competency booklet for individualized competency-based instruction is the first of five in the Job Search Skills package. (Instructor program and guides are available separately as CE 031 965 and 966, the other booklets as CE 031 968-971.) It contains 15 operational units related to the job search competency of preparing for the job search.…

Developed for use by all vocational students and teachers, this manual is designed to help students gain occupational knowledge to find employment, progress on the job, and manage their resources successfully. The 10 modules included are intended for use during 10 class sessions. Contents of each module include a brief introduction, outline,…

This first of three how-to manuals in the Adult Competency Education (ACE) Kit contains a brief introduction, flowchart of the ACE student process, and counseling manual. The manual describes a process integrating counseling and instruction and demonstrating ACE's premise that vocational counseling can provide students the stimulus for…

This curriculum guide provides teachers of office procedures classes with unit lesson plans and information about resource materials that can be examined, selected, and integrated into the instructional program. Contents are mainly established for the following two types of secondary-level programs: cooperative office education and intensive…

Materials presented in this kit form a package containing eighty-six vocational development oriented activities designed primarily for individuals and small groups of underachieving junior high or high school students and is intended to supplement regular classroom activities. Included in the kit are the following: (1) a teacher's guide containing…

The lessons are designed to give newly-arrived, limited-English-proficient Cambodian immigrants to the United States linguistic and practical skills for gaining employment. An introductory section, in both English and Cambodian, outlines the origins and design of the materials. Ten lessons follow, each accompanied by a teacher's guide giving an…

The lessons are designed to give newly-arrived, limited-English-proficient Laotian immigrants to the United States linguistic and practical skills for gaining employment. An introductory section, in both English and Lao, outlines the origins and design of the materials. Ten lessons follow, each accompanied by a teacher's guide giving an overview,…

This resource guide introduces a curriculum designed to help instructors meet the needs of special adult audiences--displaced homemakers, single parents, dislocated workers, and economically depressed families. It is organized according to four practical problems: (1) personal development; (2) career exploration; (3) employability; and (4)…

In the new context of economic recovery, employment creation, new technologies, and labor shortages in some sectors, France cannot sustain a systematic policy of rejecting aging workers. This policy has led gradually to the recognition that early retirement was merely an easy way out of the problem that has many substantially adverse effects on…

This teacher's guide provides instructional materials for a 10-unit course in the General Metal Trades program. Each unit includes most or all of these basic components: performance objectives (unit and specific objectives), suggested teaching activities (a sheet outlining steps to follow to accomplish specific objectives), information sheets,…

This teacher's guide is designed for use in providing secondary and postsecondary students in office occupations education programs with an introduction to office duplication practices. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: orientation to classroom policies; classroom safety; grooming, hygiene, and nutrition;…

These 38 learning guides are self-instructional packets for 38 tasks identified as essential for performance on entry-level jobs in business education. Each guide is based on a terminal performance objective (task) and 1-7 enabling objectives. For each enabling objective, some or all of these materials may be presented: learning steps (outline of…