This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in teaching students about lawn care. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to familiarize youth with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in the…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students gather and record information about sheep breeding, learn about treatment of diseases, prepare the lambing area, and assist with the aftercare of lambs and ewes. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students integrate crop records and market returns with computer analysis and interpretation of results. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to familiarize…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in teaching students to analyze and categorize work accidents, to look for potential hazards, to find out about safety training, and to organize a work safety campaign. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students learn about the operations of a marine hose factory, requisition supplies, rewarp nylon binders, determine the cost of material depreciation, communicate with coworkers, and learn about health and safety procedures. Though specific to…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students become familiar with meat processing--livestock at the stockyards, meat packers (wholesalers), and butcher shops--to the cooked state and to become familiar with the different joints (cuts or parts) of beef, lamb, and pork. The guide…

This course is designed to help military personnel to attain the rating of optometry specialist in the Air Force. The packet includes both a teacher's plan of instruction and five student study guides/workbooks. The teacher's plan of instruction contains lesson plans, lists of student instructional materials and audiovisual aids, and suggested…

This document describes the resettlement of Hmong refugees in Orange County, California: what their employment experience has been, which resettlement efforts have been successful, and how current efforts could be altered to improve the Hmong's long term adjustment. The report is part of a larger, national project on Hmong resettlement. Much of…

This scope and sequence guide, developed as an introduction to a vocational office education program, represents an initial step in the development of a systemwide articulated curriculum sequence for all vocational programs within the Metropolitan Nashville Public School System. It was developed as a result of needs expressed by teachers, parents,…

This scope and sequence guide, developed for a commercial food service vocational education program, represents an initial step in the development of a systemwide articulated curriculum sequence for all vocational programs within the Metropolitan Nashville Public School System. It was developed as a result of needs expressed by teachers, parents,…

A description is provided of the first-year activities of Clackamas County's Vocational Options Program (VOP), a program for high-risk youth focusing on affective skills, pre-employment training, specific job skill training, employment placement, and independent living. Part I looks at the employment training needs of young people in Clackamas…

A study examined the barriers that Missouri women encounter when trying to gain access to better-paying jobs; trends in women's employment status in the state; and the services that women receive from the state's existing employment, training, and supportive services. A total of 2,104 women were contacted through a random statewide household…

The Restructuring Education in the Sciences for Industrial Alignment (RESIA) project examined the feasibility of combining college science faculty and industrial experts to produce instructional materials. These materials were intended for on-the-job training and college credit. Through informal contact, professors were identified who were willing…

Designed for use by school library coordinators to train library aides in the provision of library services to children, this manual concentrates on library use, children's literature, the teaching of reference skills, and meeting the special needs of special types of elementary school students (the academically gifted, the physically disabled,…

This pamphlet deals with the role of vocational education in apprenticeship. Discussed in the first section are the nature and importance of apprenticeship, apprenticeable occupations, and the parties involved in apprenticeship programs. The bulk of the pamphlet describes various services provided by vocational education to apprenticeship…