This booklet contains suggestions for parents (or teachers) who teach children at home (grades 4-6) to use in providing information on careers. The booklet covers the following topics: appreciation and attitudes, self-awareness, decision making, educational awareness, career awareness, economic awareness, beginning competencies, and employability…

Focusing on reinforcing students' reading skills at home, this pamphlet emphasizes that parents should read aloud to children, talk to them about their experiences, take them places, limit their television-watching, and take an interest in their reading progress. Children's success and interest in reading is said to depend largely on whether they…

The purpose of this booklet is to explain to the home teacher (or parent) what career education is, why career education is needed, and how to use career education in the course of teaching elementary students at home. The first two sections of the booklet define career education and explain its purpose. In the next section, some career education…

The White House Conference on Child Health and Protection has recently pointed out how inadequately this country is providing educational opportunities for exceptional children. One-half million gifted children, another half million retarded children, three-quarters of a million children exhibiting serious behavior problems, three hundred thousand…