The manual is designed to serve as a comprehensive guide for curriculum directors or state affiliated associations interested in setting up summer experience programs through which students above the age of 16 participate in an occupational therapy department as "apprentice staff members." Separate sections deal with the following details: (1)…

Some of the general objectives of this compensator y program were to provide educational experiences and to assess the needs of the children and their parents. During the 1967-1968 school year it comprised 23 classes situated in 14 schools and was designed to serve up to 405 pupils and 345 parents. The classes were financed by California State and…

Twenty-four intellectually limited and educationally handicapped 10th grade students participated in the first year of the Guided Occupational Training program of the Oceanside Senior High School. An academic core of English, citizenship, and mathematics was blended with classes in one of the following areas: (1) business education and office…

The bulletin defines cooperative office work experience as an educational program, involving a working relationship between the school and the employer, which prepares students for selected office occupations. The benefits of providing work experience for students while still in high school and suggestions for implementing such programs are…

This guide was prepared to assist administrators and directors of training in planning and operating programs to train or upgrade personnel in general household service occupations and special areas. Topics cover: (1) Purpose of the Training Program, (2) Planning the Program, which includes establishing the need, program objectives, and advisory…

The Career Exploratory Program management system is designed to assist the local school teacher/coordinator in the organization and management of the program. The system defines and describes the accountability line from teacher-coordinator, through the Career Planning and Placement Center teacher/coordinator and the local school principal to the…

This manual has been prepared by the Cooperative Work Experience Specialist of the Instructional Services Division of Oregon, with the help of other work experience coordinators, to serve as a guide for teachers, coordinators, counselors, and community leaders who are responsible for establishing secondary and post-secondary cooperative work…

In the 1968 Manpower Report, the serious shortage of manpower in the health occupations field was pointed out. The goal of this project is to develop a curriculum package which can be used in preparing high school students for employment or continuing education in the health care occupations. The 3-year program will enroll 100 secondary-level…

Funded under ESEA Title I, this program was designed to provide income and work experience for disadvantaged junior high school youths age fourteen and above; and, to provide incentives which would motivate youths to continue their education through high school. The wages earned were intended to enable the student to provide for some of his…

Since the spring semester of 1974, the Work Experience Program has been operating in a number of secondary schools in Vancouver, British Columbia. This report is a survey of opinions from students, employers, parents and teachers regarding various aspects of the Work Experience Program. The purpose of the program is not to create job skills as…

This is the fifth chapter of a six chapter report which discusses Chinese research and education in solid state physics, and their relations to technology and the other sciences. This specific chapter concerns the communication of information in the scientific community and the transfer of information to students and practical users…

Reports on a program that gives college seniors in a public relations curriculum needed professional experience by assigning them to work with professionals in a nearby city. (RL)

Discusses how labor and education can work together to help young people train for jobs, hold jobs, and continue their education. Focus is on state agencies coordinating provisions of the Youth Employment Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 and CETA/YEDPA programs. (MF)

Purdue University's Industrial Education Department cooperated with a county manpower center to provide on-the-job training for CETA clients in repairing Purdue's physical plant, thereby helping the manpower center clients and also the university's maintenance department. The article describes the training programs and skills instruction. (MF)

A vocational agriculture instructor describes the Agricultural Cooperative Training (ACT) program at Nottoway (Virginia) Senior High School for on-the-job training in agribusiness and agricultural production. Especially important are student and site selection, ACT guidelines, a parent-student-employer-school written agreement, and the student…