This teaching unit on the supermarket is part of the Marketing and Distribution Occupations Career Cluster included in a series of career guidebooks developed by Project CHOICE (Children Have Options in Career Education). The units are designed to provide the classroom teacher with a source of career-related activities linking first and second…

This teaching unit on introducing work is part of a series of career guidebooks developed by Project CHOICE (Children Have Options in Career Education). The units are designed to provide the classroom teacher with a source of career-related activities linking first and second grade classroom experiences with the world of work. Each unit follows a…

To secure data on the availability and utilization of occupational information, questionnaires were sent to all public high schools on a 1962 listing supplied by the Office of Education and to a random sample of schools later discovered not to have been included in the list. Personnel in 4,436 schools responded, including 3,983 building…

A module is presented for delivering basic language skills in German at the secondary level in combination with elements of career education, including career awareness/exploration, self-awareness, decision making, employability skills, and job preparation. The module includes a teacher's guide and five student career units (business and office,…

A module is presented for delivering basic language skills in Spanish at the secondary level in combination with elements of career education, including career awareness/exploration, self-awareness, decision making, employability skills, and job preparation. The module includes a teacher's guide and five student career units (business and office,…

The Wyoming Comprehensive Occupational Education Program (K through community college) focuses on positive work attitudes and job-entry skills. In kindergarten through grade six, occupational attitudes are incorporated into the existing elementary school curriculum. A career-orientation program is designed for grades seven and eight that provides…

The cluster concept in vocational education addresses itself to issues of: job-entry preparation; geographic and occupational mobility; optimum employability for young adults; the processes by which occupational or career decisions are made; worker adaptability in a rapidly changing labor market; and the effects of continuous education on career…

Labor force participation and occupational structure and their changing trends in our society are addressed in this paper. The problems of not being able to find employment are also important, and unemployment is also examamined. Findings indicate that there are declining proportions of males in the labor force with greater decline among black…

The guide, part of an exemplary career education program, contains a science unit for junior high school students which is designed to help students obtain information on science occupations found in the Interactive Learning System-Guidance-Occupational Information File of the TIES Computer System in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The guide lists goals and…

The guide to career development in the middle school grades covers three domains of career education: self awareness, career awareness, and work attitudes. The guide's aim is to convey to students in the sixth and seventh grades the wide choice of occupations from which they can choose. Under the heading of each domain, several goals and…

Business teachers in Illinois have developed innovative career education programs and in this document they share their ideas and practices through 11 descriptive articles. Teacher contributions include an overview of the career education concept in secondary education and its relationship to the business occupations cluster, career planning,…

As part of the Federally sponsored School Program Advancing Career Education (SPACE) in the schools of Greeneville and Greene County, Tennessee, a student interest inventory was conducted to aid in assessing a 45 percent dropout rate in the county. A 25-statement questionnaire (concerning occupational/career interests, communication skills, and…

The elementary INFOE (Information Needed For Occupational Exploration) study for grades 4-6 was conducted to assess the feasibility of establishing an articulated program of career information for students at the elementary school level. Background for the study and the development of the materials is discussed. The major guideline for the INFOE…

Secondary INFOE (Information Needed for Occupational Entry) is a service which enables counselors to provide localized career and educational infomation to students. The key to the INFOE service is the INFOEscript, a career brief developed for student use in the form of a microfilm aperture card. Each brief describes a specific job title. An…

The SPAN (An Accelerated Project for a Systems Program Approaching Non-Unemployment of Vocational Students, or "Start Planning Ahead Now") career education curriculum guide provides activities that will give junior high students exposure to real work situations. Briefly discussed are the program's organization, general objectives, and…