A 1-year workplace literacy program was a joint effort of the Chamber of Commerce, public schools, and seven hotels in Arlington, Virginia. Participants were employees with limited English proficiency. The project resulted in the production of a manual, a video, curricula for housekeeping and food and beverage workers, curricula for more advanced…

The Arlington Education and Employment Program (REEP)/Hotel Workplace Literacy Project served 230 functionally illiterate adults working in hotels and a real estate maintenance firm in Virginia. Job-related English and math, citizenship preparation, and work awareness instruction was provided. An evaluation found that: (1) the project effectively…

A workplace literacy project for employees with limited English proficiency was conducted at five sites in the Chicago area. The 15-month project was a joint effort of an educational agency, a community-based organization, and three manufacturers. The curriculum covered English-as-a-second-language (ESL) life skills, work skills, and job skills.…

This manual is intended to assist in the development of programs in vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) for limited-English-speaking individuals working as school custodians. The manual describes steps in program development, offers methods for needs assessment, specifies instructional objectives, discusses techniques for lesson…

This career preparation curriculum outline for the hospitality/tourism industry is intended to provide secondary and postsecondary learning outcomes for completion of program requirements. The guide is organized into four sections. Section one presents an overview of the program, of the philosophy of career education, and of the organization and…

This student 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 interests, using the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, identifying occupational choices, identifying vocational and…

Designed and written for industrial arts instructors and students, this teacher-developed curriculum offers both a model for instructors and practical guidelines for classroom activities that explore the field of transportation. Various aspects of course design and delivery are covered in the introductory section, including course goals and…

Intended as a resource document as well as a status report on all the statewide career information delivery systems (CIDS) in operation, this report examines the status of 39 statewide information systems. (Career information delivery systems are computer-based systems that provide national, state, and local information to individuals who are in…

The product of a study to identify and collect data on vocational occupations in which knowledge of languages other than English is an asset, this report contains information of fifteen such occupations. Covered in the individual chapters of the report are banking, building maintenance and construction, food service, health care, hotel, media,…

This book of objectives, one of a series designed to provide a competency-based analysis of employment categories in human services, deals with the core competencies necessary for rehabilitation officers. Addressed in the individual sections of the volume are the following skill areas: human development and behavior, administrative skills, public…

This book of objectives, one of a series designed to provide a competency-based analysis of employment categories in human services, deals with core competencies necessary for human service workers as a group. Addressed in the individual sections of the volume are the following skill areas: client interactions, service delivery, personal and…

This curriculum guide provides a model for organizing vocational instructional content from which secondary level instructors can extract a construction cluster curriculum that meets local needs. Primarily oriented towards classroom use, this guide may also assist administrators, counselors, and lay people involved in local school systems.…

This Exemplary Activities Handbook for senior high is one of nine booklets that organize career education activities around subject matter areas. (There is one booklet each for grades K-6, one for grades 7-9, and one for grades 10-12.) The booklet is organized around these subject matter areas: English, Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, Guidance,…

Four articles on higher education issues are presented. In "Parental Loans--An Option Paper," Joseph Froomkin considers the rationale for and against public initiatives for parental loan plans, rationales for institutional parental loans, the demand for loans and probable cost to the government, and options/terms for loans. The…

Designed to inform individual women and occupational counselors of blue collar jobs and training opportunities for women in construction and industry, this guide attempts to answer the questions: What is blue collar work? What is apprenticeship and are there entrance requirements? How do I go about finding a blue collar job or getting into an…