Several factors contribute to a disproportionately lower Latino participation in college education. Foremost among those factors are policies that encourage quick job placement over career development, lack of understanding of the benefits of a college degree, lower expectations for Latino students, poor financial planning, and lack of guidance. A…

The ultimate objective of vocational guidance for public school youth should be appropriate job placement. Traditionally, public school guidance services have not included job placement. The purpose of this guide is to assist educators in accepting placement services as a technique for enhancing the vocational development of all high school youth.…

The resurgence of interest in vocational guidance and emergence of various instructional specialists in career development at all levels have pointed to the need for a team of guidance workers and a guidance curriculum. Through this need has emerged a new and broader guidance delivery system. (Author/DS)

It is the role of the school to assist the individual toward appropriate educational and occupational experiences. Twenty-five New Jersey high schools endeavored to improve their programs for career development by sponsoring innovative guidance projects. The projects explored and developed guidelines in five areas: (1) Special vocational guidance…

Creating a Career, a 45-50 hour curricular program for classroom presentation by an instructor has four main areas of focus: (1) self-development, (2) occupational choice, (3) world of work, and (4) job search skills. Components and main features of the program are described. (MW)

Volume 3 presents a descriptive outline of the Wisconsin school-based career placement model. The two major objectives for the model are: (1) to maximize the individual student's competencies for independent career functioning and (2) to maximize the availability of career placement options. For orderly transition, each student must receive the…

This study synthesizes evidence on the realignment of practical career guidance, counseling, and placement that has occurred since 1968 for noncollege-bound students. This study examines and classifies 13 guidance programs according to whether they emphasize vocational choice, vocational development, employability development, or placement and…

This catalog contains information about planning, career guidance programs, and five selected planning models. General information about planning and educational change is discussed in the section on planning, along with specific guidelines for planners of career guidance programs. Two worksheets, "Planning Considerations" and "Selection Guide,"…

The overall purpose of these papers is to provide a background working paper to serve as a basis for developing a system for evaluating states' programs in Career Guidance, Counseling and Placement. An extensive review of published materials is summarized into three areas: (1) the accomplishments, limitations and trends of the current guidance…

This project was developed from an overall need in Humacao, Puerto Rico, for an occupation information program at all levels of the educational system to provide more knowledge about the new employment opportunities resulting from Humacao's changing labor market. Since prior to project implementation, schools were characterized by no activities…

This guide is designed to deal systematically with the problems of career guidance, counseling and placement and suggest solutions. It provides assistance to State and local leaders in guide development and implementation. Chapter 1 defines career guidance, counseling and placement and examines the need for making career guidance, counseling and…

This training manual is a staff guide in the presentation of a training workshop for participating school personnel. The training manual covers all aspects of the Group Guidance Program including basic group theory, curriculum selection and/or development, student group scheduling, post-high school planning, occupational resources, job development…

The major objective of a project conducted by the Bedford County Public Schools in Virginia was to refine and further implement the model Career Education K-12 curriculum. Curriculum committees in five areas (art, language arts, mathematics, physical education, and social studies) were selected and given released time to receive in-service help…

As part of the Federally sponsored School Program Advancing Career Education (SPACE) in the schools of Greeneville and Greene County, Tennessee, an inventory of teacher attitudes toward career education was conducted to aid in assessing a 45-percent dropout rate in the country. An 18-statement questionnaire was administered to 81 city teachers in…

Volume 2 of the Wisconsin placement project has intensively analyzed survey data. Users and providers of placement services in the select counties of Grant, Winnebago, and Racine were surveyed regarding barriers and facilitations in securing educational/occupational placement. User respondents included 825 current high school seniors from 13…