This book, intended for those in the early years of an academic career, presents papers on academic career development organized into two parts: Part 1 is on role expectations for beginning professors at eight institutions of higher education and part 2 describes career patterns by faculty members. Each of the two Parts begins with an editorial…

This booklet lists and describes materials that can be used for employment counseling in Canada. The booklet is organized in two parts. The first part lists and describes counseling tools. Some of the tools listed include Moving On, the Canadian Occupational Interest Inventory, the General Aptitude Test Battery, Index to Canadian Occupations,…

Intended for counselors, teachers, administrators, and students, this resource book contains 40 activities to prepare students in grades 7-12 to make the transition from school to work. (With two exceptions, activities can be completed without additional career materials.) Introductory materials include a rationale for career development…

Growing from mobile career libraries established for special needs secondary students in Carroll County, Maryland, this curriculum contains 10 units designed to aid educationally handicapped students to understand themselves and the world of work. Topics covered in the units include the following: self-awareness and appraisal, interpersonal…

This report highlights findings from the fourth National Survey of Working America conducted for the National Career Development Association. The survey gathered information through interviews with a national sample of 1,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, representing a total population of 185.2 million adults, in summer 1999. The study…

This guide is intended to assist vocational educators in providing computer-assisted basic skills instruction to students in special vocational education programs. Addressed in the individual units of the curriculum are the following topics: components and use of the TRS-80; self-assessment; reading (job clusters); language arts (business letters…

This curriculum guide consists of 17 units of study for use in a prevocational career education course geared toward ninth and tenth grade students. Covered in the individual lessons are the following topics: assessing personal characteristics, completing a personal aptitude inventory, assessing personal interests, using the Dictionary of…

This curriculum guide consists of materials for use in presenting the first year of a two-year course in diversified occupations that is designed to teach job search and job-holding skills to disadvantaged and English as a second language (ESL) students. Addressed in the 25 units included in the guide are the following topics: the purposes of…

This competency-based curriculum for prevocational exploration in West Virginia provides experiences at grades 9 and 10 related to exploring careers and educational programs for those careers. The guidance units are designed to assist the counselor in providing activities that relate to ongoing hands-on activities in prevocational business,…

This curriculum package contains materials for teaching the career orientation course in the junior high schools of Arkansas. Following the introduction, which describes the course and provides a rationale for it, along with instructions to teachers for conducting the course, the package is divided into 35 units organized under five major…

This book employs scientific research, advice, and student teacher journal entries to encourage and challenge student teachers to perform their best. The book's content is guided by the professional and personal needs of student teachers. The book draws upon research in education and psychology that has practical application in the classroom and…

Standardized curricula are provided for five courses for the secondary business technology programs in Mississippi: intensive business training; information processing; business computer applications; and computer programing technology (CPT) I and II. The 20 units of intensive business training include the following: keyboarding; operation of…

Standardized course titles and core contents for seven marketing and cooperative vocational education courses in Mississippi are provided: (1) marketing education, part one; (2) marketing education, part two; (3) fashion merchandising; (4) marketing cooperative education, part one; (5) marketing cooperative education, part two; (6) diversified…

This document, which is directed primarily at groups working with people who are unemployed, partly employed, or out of the workforce, contains materials for a course titled "Changing Directions" that is designed to help people make sense of contemporary changes in society and work while considering various ways to channel their…

Developed by a committee of vocational education teachers, the activities in this guide are intended to help instructors to teach students the attitudes, characteristics, and knowledge that will enable them to use their vocational education skills in the most effective way. They also are designed to help students overcome sex stereotypes and form…