Unit I of a 4-unit (9-12 week) career development and life planning program for rural high school students focuses on life in rural localities. Designed to last approximately 13 days, the unit uses student experience and supplementary data as a basis for discussion of the local area, its people and their roles, the advantages and disadvantages of…

Designed to last approximately 7 days, Unit II of a 4-unit career development and life planning program for rural high school students focuses on teaching students decision making skills to enable them to exercise more control over their time and energies. The unit introduces the decision making process; provides practice in applying the process…

Designed to last approximately 12 days, Unit III of the 4-unit life planning and career development curriculum for rural high school students focuses on skills application. Through experience simulation, students apply skills learned in Unit II to the information from Unit I; they project their future lives and simulate their responses to problems…

The field-tested packet has been designed to adapt the rural high school career development and life planning curriculum to the Northeast region of the United States. Selected pages and simulation activities from Units I-IV of the curriculum have been rewritten to reflect the area; the majority of the examples are from Vermont and New Hampshire.…

Conditions and characteristics of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho are reflected in the field-tested adaptation packet for the Northwest version of "Options," a four-unit career development and life planning curriculum for rural high school students. Selected examples, student activity sheets and teacher guide pages from the four basic…

This is a participant's guide of a community-based guidance program designed to help high school graduates become aware of themselves and of educational and employment opportunities and to develop the strength to carry out the life changes they choose to make. It consists of four sections. In section 1, entitled "Becoming Aware," a…

A guide for students seeking financial aid is presented. Students are advised to begin by assessing their position: what they like to do, what sort of lifestyle they want, whether their parents agree with the career goals, and whether their goals are realistic. Factors to consider in choosing a college are noted and a list of useful publications…

This document is the first-grade component of a K-eighth grade program on crime resistance. Major objectives of the program are to help teachers develop and implement a curriculum which promotes and maintains positive student attitudes and behavior, assists students in meeting their responsibilities, and helps students insure their own and other…

This curriculum guide is the second-grade component of a teacher-developed K-eighth grade program on crime resistance. Major objectives of the program are to help teachers promote and maintain positive student attitudes and behavior, assist students in meeting their responsibilities, and help students insure their own and other people's safety and…

This booklet outlines activities and objectives for a crime prevention education program in the sixth grade. The document is part of a K-eighth grade crime resistance project designed to promote and maintain positive student attitudes and behavior, to assist students in meeting their responsibilities, and to help them insure their own and other…

Written for Adult Basic Education teachers of developmentally disabled adults reading at or below a second grade level, this resource curriculum contains materials in the employability behaviors area. The curriculum is divided into the four domains sections of Communication, Intra/Interpersonal, Worker Habits, and Appearance. Under these four…

This document is the coordinator's handbook for a four-day workshop for young women in transition from high school to two-year colleges. The program covers career information, self-awareness and skills assessment (with special regard for mathematics), the many roles of women, and decision making and planning. It includes large- and small-group…

This workbook, designed for use in a workshop or independently by a college or university group, is intended for use by faculty and administrators reviewing an existing faculty evaluation system. The tool is organized in chapters outlining sequential steps in decision-making about an existing evaluation system. Following each chapter is a series…

Interviews with 814 applicants for admission to the University of Washington who were not offered admission, or who did not enroll, were conducted during the summer and autumn of 1978. The respondents, whether or not they met admission criteria, were highly similar in characteristics of background, career aspiration, and alternative educational…

The report focuses on two aspects of social education in public schools--citizenship and consumer education. The major objectives of the report were to investigate assumptions of educators and policy makers regarding social education and to recommend ways of improving social education programs. The document is presented in three major sections.…