The Community Careering career education gamebook for elementary grades 3 and above introduces 57 occupations in three interrelated occupational clusters: looking around me, my family and my friends, and my community and me; it includes 25 career awareness games and a pretest and a posttest. The accompanying guidebook for teachers provides…

The Curriculum Careering career education gamebook for elementary grades 4 and above introduces 135 occupations through 25 career education games, a pretest and a posttest, while reinforcing curriculum concepts in the following subject areas: art, music, physical education, health, science, mathematics, social studies, and English. The…

The occupational analysis contains a brief job description for the waste water treatment occupations of operator and maintenance mechanic and 13 detailed task statements which specify job duties (tools, equipment, materials, objects acted upon, performance knowledge, safety considerations/hazards, decisions, cues, and errors) and learning skills…

To improve vocational educational programs in agriculture, occupational information on a common core of basic skills within the occupational area of the commercial vegetable producer is presented in the revised task inventory survey. The purpose of the occupational survey was to identify a common core of basic skills which are performed and are…

The report describes an occupational survey of the Fabric and Rubber Products career ladder, AFS 582XO, conducted by the Occupational Survey Branch. The report describes the development of the survey instrument, administration to career ladder incumbents, and resulting summaries of tasks performed by airmen grouped by skill level, experience…

Helping students develop realistic career goals is a shared responsibility of faculty, administrators, and student services personnel of Firelands Campus, a two-year branch college of Bowling Green State University. Career development at Firelands involves the dean's office, admissions office, veterans affairs office, placement office, and faculty…

The yearbook, divided into six sections, records the growth of technician education and training. Section 1 consists of eight articles on new issues, problems, and proposals in technician education. Case studies of eight different college training programs are presented in Section 2. Section 3, the main portion of the yearbook, consists of three…

This booklet, part of a set of self-guidance publications prepared by Catalyst, a national nonprofit organization, is written specifically for undergraduate women to help them bring their aspirations into focus, develop realistic career goals, and launch an effective job campaign for fields which, at the managerial and professional levels, have…

This presentation outlines a two week, no credit program offered to secondary students in the Shawnee Mission School District, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, which is designed to develop a "Career Oriented Individual." The program encompasses three phases of development: (1) awareness; (2) exploration; and (3) decision making. Its goal is to increase…

The School Personnel Management System offers a correlated set of job descriptions, evaluative instruments, policies, tools, forms, and publications intended to aid local school officials in enhancing their personnel management programs. The materials are contained in two looseleaf binders entitled "Manual 1--Tools," and "Manual…

A three-week intensive training program is described for preparing paraprofessionals to organize, develop, and establish Occupational Resource Centers (ORC) in elementary and secondary schools and related community agencies. The training program is based on a specific task analysis of the position of developing and operating an ORC. A behavior…

The directory, useful to both the school counselor in providing general guidance and to the college student for investigating career choices, presents specific information about Federal careers and the agencies that employ college graduates for these positions. The first of three parts provides a look at all of the major Federal career…

The Center for Vocational Education is continuing its programatic research efforts to develop more effective procedures for identifying valid and necessary curriculum content. The occupational task survey report for the occupation of business data programer is a product resulting from this effort. The task inventory data summarized were collected…

The first part of the handbook contains revised guidelines for its use, suggestions on where to go for more information, a discussion of assumptions and methods used in preparing employment projections, and a look into the future. More than 850 occupational briefs are presented, grouped into 13 occupational clusters and 35 industry briefs. The 13…

The document consists of three symposium addresses, pertaining to the provision and use of career information systems. Gerald C. Smith, Department of Labor, opened the symposium with an address on "Occupational Information systems: Uses, Developments, and Issues", which focused on career information systems currently being developed by…