This manual was created to give rural American Indian youths ways to build their self-concept, spiritual strength, and, thus, improve their ability to achieve success. This document draws heavily from anecdotal material--Indian lore and the author's personal experiences--to encourage good social conduct by Indian youth. It suggests that everyone…

Designed for use with special education students served by special education instructional programs, this guide is intended to help educators implement appropriate career education programing. Moderate to mildly handicapped students are the target population. The guide is based on the objectives that need to be monitored by teachers to assure that…

This packet contains student materials and an instructor's guide for use in a series of workshops on the "GOALS Process" for persons in retail businesses. The materials provide a framework for individual or family use in self-assessment and a means of identifying business and family life goals, setting priorities, and developing management…

This curriculum guide was developed to help teachers/trainers conduct classes in life skills for single parents or displaced homemakers. The curriculum guide contains dozens of learning activities organized in the following three sections: self-concept (self-awareness, self-communication, and self-management); networking; and employability skills…

Three English courses, based on the idea that subject matter, basic skills, and values are three separate areas that can be taught simultaneously, are described in this paper. The course described in the first section, "Women and Literature," combines interesting thematic material and values clarification with practice in traditional composition…

This instructional guide is designed to provide work experience education coordinators with a series of topical items which can be incorporated into the related instruction portion of a high school student's work experience education program. The activities in this instructional guide represent a common core of concepts and understandings…

This booklet of Worksheets for the Career Alert Planning (CAP) program is one of the 14 components (see note) of a set of individualized materials designed to help participants find out about themselves and about the kind of work for which they are suited. In this program, participants become acquainted with occupations that are representative of…

This handbook offers a field-tested model workshop designed specifically for vocational education institutions interested in providing services for displaced homemakers. The three-hour format brings together displaced homemakers and service providers (vocational educators, adult education programs, federally funded programs, and community…

This guide leads users through a structured search of the Michigan Occupational Information System (MOIS). It is intended to help the user prepare a profile of interests and preferences that will be used in career exploration. The booklet asks the user to make choices in seven categories and to enter the responses on the MOIS Search Worksheet. The…

This packet contains student materials and an instructor's guide for use in a series of workshops on the "GOALS Process" for persons in service-producing businesses (often family-owned). The materials provide a framework for individual or family use in self-assessment and a means of identifying business and family life goals, setting priorities,…

An analysis of deficiencies of recent curriculum reform efforts in Australia and recommendations for improvement are presented in this paper. Despite criticisms that have been levelled at the educational system, a conclusion is that educators are well prepared to meet the demands for restructuring. What is needed is not merely restructuring, but a…

A needs assessment instrument was developed to aid rural (upstate New York) school officials in implementing staff development programs and determining special staff development needs for serving handicapped students in the mainstream. Survey responses were gathered from 85 elementary and secondary teachers in 3 school districts over 2 counties.…

Issues concerning student moral and ethical development during college are considered in three papers from a symposium sponsored by Bowling Green State University as part of the Academic Outcomes Project. Four major questions are addressed: the college's role in promoting students' moral and ethical development; what constitutes moral and ethical…

A comparative analysis of values education in the United States, Germany, Japan, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Sweden, and Canada analyzed eight assertions: (1) No institution with education as its primary aim can be value neutral; (2) Countries differ in values which characterize their political cultures and in values which are taught in…

Project SEARCH (also titled "A Model for Providing Vocational Counseling Services to Adult Basic Education Students) investigated methods of providing counseling services with basic education programs while serving as a model counseling program. Designed to increase adult basic education (ABE) students' self-awareness, decision-making and…