West Windsor-Plainsboro High School (New Jersey) offers a tightly structured, diversified curriculum in a nontraditional open setting. The school curriculum focuses on teaching basic skills in reading, writing, science, math, and social studies; using a variety of instructional techniques; maintaining high faculty/administration commitment to…

Guidance counselors must enlist the aid of politicians in securing support for guidance services. (Author)

This article states that what society can rightfully expect from school counselors is training of graduates from school so that they are well informed about the career and life possibilities open to them. The counselor should also be able to demonstrate ways in which education can be interwoven with life. (Author)

This is a report on a study conducted at Knox College that investigated two factors involved in undergraduate political science performance: 1) usage of the discipline's fundamental skills, and 2) directed counseling and selected course offerings. (Author/ND)

Efficient and worthwhile career education programs depend upon identifying important variables for the design and presentation of career information. This study was undertaken to identify variables that might be related to knowledge, opinion, and interest, especially in the renewable natural resource occupations. (Author)

Business educators can provide career guidance activities for high school students through recruitment, development, and placement activities. Techniques discussed are: slide/tape programs, films, tests, demonstrations, minicourses, occupational reference library, field trips, interest clubs, advisory committees, resource speakers, and placement…

A 1988-89 statewide survey of 244 Nevada counselors examined the differences between rural and urban counselors in perceiving five imperatives through which counselors can contribute to educational improvement. These are: (1) providing an increased emphasis on learning and cognition; (2) diffusing guidance and counseling throughout the curriculum;…

This book is a product of a research effort to identify exemplary elementary school guidance and counseling programs and practices across the United States. It consists of program descriptions from 134 programs in 40 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. Section 1 gives the background of how programs were identified and selected.…

This curriculum guide outlines the K-12 guidance curriculum that is being implemented in the Ripon, Wisconsin, School District. The first three short sections of the guide introduce the developmental guidance model, describe the project that produced it, and recommend staffing changes needed to implement the model. The following 10 sections…

This manual is designed to aid school personnel to establish a student advisory program in the middle school. The rationale, definition and benefits of the program are detailed in an initial section, including areas of responsibility and the role of principal, teachers, counselors, and special services staff. The second section presents a…

Creating a Career, a 45-50 hour curricular program for classroom presentation by an instructor has four main areas of focus: (1) self-development, (2) occupational choice, (3) world of work, and (4) job search skills. Components and main features of the program are described. (MW)

There is no provision in career education for formally fostering such general attitudes as a sense of agency and a feeling of self-esteem or such basic skills as time management and interpersonal cooperation. This article discusses the need for providing basic attitude and skill training. (Author)

Part of a comprehensive career guidance system in Canada, Computerized Heuristic Occupational Information and Career Exploration System (CHOICES) is an interactive computerized career information system in both French and English that allows people to interrogate and explore two data bases: one, a comprehensive, up-to-date file of occupations…

Eighty-two college student personnel administrators responded to a questionnaire asking for value ratings on curricular offerings in two-year master's programs in college student personnel work. General areas of study supported were counseling, administration and management, higher education, social and cultural foundations, and research and…

Proposes a modified English "house system" to personalize American high schools, thus increasing individual guidance and student sense of belonging. (DW)