Developed by curriculum coordinating unit staff, this study guide was designed for use by students in occupational orientation classes. Intended to serve as a central core around which class activities may be structured, the guide includes 17 units on topics such as: (1) Determining the Importance Of Work, (2) Understanding The Present World Of…

The Oklahoma exemplary program located at Tulsa was designed to provide occupational orientation and vocational training for disadvantaged and previously unserved students from Grade 5 through 12 in a comprehensive urban school system. To evaluate the program, data were collected about the: (1) contest or goals and objectives of the program in…

Compiled by special education teachers, this guide and accompanying index is for teacher use in providing a program of prevocational orientation, cross-occupational skill training, and job-specific information to educable mentally handicapped (EMH) students in junior and senior high school special education programs. Part I, Prevocational…

This paper is concerned with the ordering of occupational values for students of different social classes who attend schools with considerable social class distributions. The attempt was to add information about occupational values by providing data about the values held by secondary school age students of 2 school districts, each of which had the…

Recognizing a need for improvement in their vocational education offerings, the administration of the program for the deaf appointed a study team representing backgrounds including education of the deaf, manpower research, public administration, and occupational analysis. This report presents their specific analysis and recommendations for a…

During the 1970-71 school year the Pontiac School District operated a vocational career development program to increase the occupational knowledge and self-concept of students. Evaluation of that first year pertained to context, input, process, and product. A description of the program, its results, and research procedures is included. Three major…

This paper describes a project designed to: (1) develop a model for determining occupational activity components to be used in any vocational-technical program, (2) produce a list of occupational activity components (tasks) for the occupational roles identified, (3) determine scores, ranks and percentages for each component from each occupational…

This laboratory manual for junior high school students encompasses concepts found in manufacturing. Developed under a contract from the U.S. Office of Education, it is the second part of a 2-year integrated program, and together with the first course in construction technology, provides an introductory study of industrial technology. This manual…

This guidebook has been prepared as a counseling resource for high school students and counselors, and management and personnel workers seeking information on occupations in the health field. Included is a brief overview of the health field along with information pertaining to career planning, sources of financial aid, and descriptions of more…

The Minnesota Studies in Vocational Rehabilitation report continuing research on the general problem of adjustment to work. Work adjustment is predicted by matching an individual's work personality with work environments, and satisfaction by how well abilities and needs correspond to reinforcers in the work environment. This volume presents…

This supplementary reference reading material for high school students and teenagers introduces the reader to over 1,000 job ideas. Much of the book is related by young people themselves who tell how they thought up work ideas, applied for and held jobs, what they needed in education, training and talent and other suggestions. An appendix of youth…

This booklet was written by teachers for teachers, to help them implement career education in the classroom. Sample units were prepared by participants in a career education workshop held in June 1972, and additional material was adapted from career education literature recommended by teachers. Emphasis in the project was on people and what they…

This exemplary project is designed to help all students bridge the gap between school and work by creating change through an inservice program for counselors and through the implementation of a program of occupational information, orientation, and exploration for grades K-12. Phases of the project are: (1) staff recruitment and planning, (2)…

It is essential that priorities be realigned and that we return to the concept of education as career preparation. This should include the full range of educational endeavors from preschool through graduate school and adult education. Each state should have a complete plan for occupational education that includes priorities, immediate and…

In this survey, the Tennessee Research Coordinating Unit has gathered statistical data pertinent to the salary structure of State Divisions of Vocational-Technical Education in the Southeast with specific emphasis on Tennessee. Compared to other state divisions, the professional vocational education staff members in Tennessee are overworked and…