This set of materials was developed for a special ERIC/CAPS Workshop on, "New Developments in Guidance and Personnel Services: Guidance and Student Services for the Culturally Different," held at the 1970 American Personnel and Guidance Association Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. Members of the ERIC/CAPS staff developed generalizations and…

This monograph attempts to answer some of the most commonly asked questions concerning career education: (1) What is career education?; (2) Why do we need career education?; (3) When and where does career education take place?; Also outlined are the goals of elementary education and how the development of career education awareness can fit into an…

This is a booklet in the Project IDEALS series concerning personal development/social behavior. The first section details the various aspects and innovations concerning student discipline. Sections two and three deal with student-parent relationships and peer relationships respectively. A fourth section discusses teacher effectiveness in the…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the sixth in a series describing current, successful career education practices. Intended for counselors, this monograph has been prepared to show the relationship between career education, career…

The American School Counselors Association presents position statements concerning a number of issues such as: student rights, principles and guidelines of confidentiality, drug education and counseling, guidance service programs and financial problems of counseling services. (SE)

The evolution of a third-generation computerized career guidance system is described and the advantages of a systematic model for the delivery of career guidance materials are presented. (Author)

Describes a successful teacher-advisor program that uses all professionals in the school building to improve the counselor-student ratio. (Author/IRT)

The Greater Cleveland External Degree Center is a nonprofit counseling organization and one of the most successful operations in the relatively new field called "educational brokering". Three brokerage services are described and a number of other large brokers listed. These educational brokers are middlemen in the field of adult…

Describes a classroom guidance unit designed to assist middle school students in exploring their skills, habits, and attitudes related to taking examinations. By presenting appropriate test-taking habits and attitudes in a stimulating, group-oriented format, the unit offers an opportunity for students to acquire important academic skills.…

Describes three programs implemented in the Providence, Rhode Island, elementary schools to improve students' self-image. These include a guidance/puppetry program, student of the week awards, and a behavioral management system. (JAC)

States the need for elementary school guidance programs in Tennessee. Discusses three aspects of guidance programs: proposed features (preventive counseling, home-school relationships, parent involvement), facilitators, and goals (guidance integration in the total school program). (SB)

Summarizes some of the main findings and conclusions of a recent National Foundation for Educational Research-sponsored project that was aimed at exploring the various facets of college-based careers guidance within school district-maintained further and higher education establishments throughout England and Wales. (CT)

A part of a day's work for middle school educators involves making decisions about school expenditures, academics, activities, and hiring. This brief article observes that student leaders are increasingly participating in decisions about school programming, finances, activities, and even hiring. If given the chance to contribute, middle level…

Three forms of evaluation are required to fully evaluate comprehensive school guidance programs. First, the program must be reviewed using program standards, evidence, and documentation to establish that a written guidance program exists in a school district and that the written program matches the implemented program. Second, guidance program…

In no other country in the world do so many boys and girls receive regular high-school education of a general cultural type as in the United States, and the number of such boys and girls in this country is rapidly increasing, having more than doubled since 1905, and increased more than 60 per cent since 1910. American democratic ideals demand not…