This course outline provides local agencies with a guide to be used in North Carolina training programs for chore providers who provide supportive services to aging and disabled persons. Critical training areas as well as suggested training methods and materials are identified. An introduction provided general information on content, instructional…

Designed for use in high school and adult education programs, this manual was developed to help marketing and distributive education teachers to develop or upgrade community/work-based programs; and to assist teachers who operate these programs to use legal operational practices and to meet the occupational needs of their students and communities.…

Early in 1982 the Seattle (Washington) School Board organized a seminar on school effectiveness in Seattle. The seminar group, including teachers, administrators, a community representative, and a school board member, looked at relevant research and considered testimony by community groups, individuals, teachers, and students on school…

The intention of a research project was to determine the effectiveness of the Personalized, Individualized, Vocational Occupations Training (PIVOT) materials developed by the School District of Philadelphia in developing entry-level competency in secondary school vocational students. The subject areas selected for the study were industrial…

These units of instructional materials and teaching aids are the final three of a series of eight designed for use in rural agriculture programs for students in grades 9 and 10. Covered in the unit on soil science and conservation of natural resources are collecting soil samples and applying soil sample test results. Growing vegetables and…

A project was conducted to develop a curriculum for training interpreters to use American Sign Language (ASL) to serve the deaf. The three-phase project involved (1) a task analysis to catalog the skills needed by interpreters and location of existing materials to determine areas where material needed to be developed; (2) development of a model…

These handouts and transparency masters are from workshops conducted throughout South Florida during 1980-81 for Diversified Cooperative Training (DCT) program coordinators and other vocational educators. (The workshops were held to help these persons improve their understanding of, and ability to implement, three essential components of…

This handbook contains 14 essays on practical skills necessary for providing instructional and administrative services to correspondence students. Topics covered in individual essays include the definition of student services, an overview of instructional service, staff supervision, effective school record keeping, principles of communications,…

This student welding competency-based education curriculum consists of six units dealing with general areas related to trade occupations and nine units covering specific aspects of working with welding equipment and performing welding operations. Topics covered in the first six units are welding opportunities, human relations, safety, basic…

This Project Basic instructional guide contains a series of learning activities designed to help students develop realistic expectations of the world of work and begin to identify and demonstrate those competencies which lead to salable skills and to employment upon graduation. The materials are organized according to competency. Each individual…

The problem of senior citizens in Florida who need to work are chronicled in this third part of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Work after 65 hearings, conducted in Orlando, Florida, in July, 1980. During the Florida hearing, representatives of various government programs for senior citizens, professors of education and economics and…

This final report contains a description of and manual for Project LINK, a program to assist educable mentally retarded and learning-disabled students in various phases of vocational and academic training. The project description presents goals and objectives and addresses methodology. These activities are discussed: advisory committee; LINK…

A project was undertaken to plan a consumer education program and delivery system for elderly persons in the six-county Bootheel area of Southeast Missouri. Included among the project's activities were the following: (1) assessing the needs and qualifications for consumer education programs for the elderly through a literature search and…

Consolidation of two earlier Danish Ministry of Education Acts in 1980 resulted in a 12-part Act which outlines programs and activities in leisure-time education for children and adults. Sections of the Act cover: (1) youth schools; (2) leisure-time activities for children and young people, including interest-groups, youth clubs and use of school…

The Career Intern Program (CIP) is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or postsecondary education, and to facilitate their transition from school to work. CIP components are instruction, counseling,…