This orientation package provides an overview of all of the components of a comprehensive approach to guidance, counseling, and placement. The competencies related to each of the components are included in the package. The goal for the orientation module is for the participant to understand what the comprehensive approach to guidance, counseling,…

This material represents an effort to demonstrate, in a limited 60-minute experience, the type of staff development modules or packages developed with an E.S.E.A. Title III grant in Arizona by the Mesa Public schools. this staff development effort is an important part of a larger ongoing effort to develop, field test, and implement a comprehensive…

This manual is one of four volumes in a staff development series designed for use with the Georgia Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling units. The helping skills training program, developed to equip school personnel with the competencies necessary to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships, has two components, this self-instructional…

This module is a competency-based staff development training package which focuses on the assessment of desired outcomes in career guidance. It is part of a long-range project designed to present a comprehensive approach to career guidance, counseling, placement and followup. As a staff training package, this module is directed toward developing…

This fact sheet provides a general overview of career education and career guidance programs and practices for gifted and talented students. Topics covered include: (1) a definition of gifted and talented students; (2) the importance of early identification; (3) characteristics of the gifted and talented; (4) career development needs in the areas…

This manual is one of four volumes in a staff development series designed for use with the Georgia Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling units. The helping skills training program, developed to equip school personnel with the competencies necessary to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships has two components, part 1, the…

The participant material masters from 14 modules in the "Facilitator's Guide to Staff Training for the Rural America Series" have been compiled in this document, to facilitate duplication. Items of interest may be duplicated in quantity by a variety of methods requiring a minimum of time, effort, and expense. All pages have been…

The Chapter 1 Clinical and Guidance Program provided diagnostic and counseling services to students enrolled in Chapter 1 nonpublic school remedial instruction programs--Corrective Reading, the Reading Skills Center, Corrective Mathematics, and English as a Second Language (ESL). Program documents, data retrieval forms, observations of staff…

One of a series to aid facilitators who train rural career guidance program staff, this module emphasizes the importance of planning in the development of a comprehensive career guidance program. A conceptual model for a planning and implementation cycle is presented, examined, and applied to the initial steps of program planning. Topics addressed…

The transparency masters appearing in 14 modules in the "Facilitator's Guide to Staff Training for the Rural America Series" have been compiled in this document to facilitate their duplication and to insure the integrity of the entire system by placing an extra copy of each transparency in a binder for easy access. The masters are in the…

This facilitator training guide, part of a series of 18 components, describes the needs assessment process as an essential feature of successful rural career guidance program planning. It is designed to provide participants with the skills necessary to conduct a local needs assessment and to identify student needs for career guidance programming.…

To have an effective career guidance and counseling program, it is necessary to know and use pertinent resources. This module provides facilitator guidelines for training staff in the use of three "Rural America Series" handbooks: (1) "Resource Assessment" which depicts a major step in the planning process, (2) "Career…

This module of the staff training series deals with the practical problems that arise when setting a framework for effective staff development, by concentrating on a number of experiential activities for accomplishing the staff development mission. Presented among the strategies for accomplishing total staff development are field trips to work…

This module provides guidelines for planning and implementing both written and oral cooperative agreements with business, industry, and labor. These guidelines will be of help to rural and small school counselors and educators as they plan, implement, and evaluate career guidance programs in rural schools. Characteristics of formal and informal…

This module helps the facilitator in training other educators in the effective use of a wealth of field test data gathered through case studies of all nine sites at which the Rural America Series has been rigorously field tested over a 15-month period. The module is particularly valuable in assisting program planners to anticipate and avoid errors…