Research on the use of experiential exercises to encourage exploration of professional networks shows that such exercises are effective and provide value for students seeking to enter or navigate careers. Often students in the early phase of their undergraduate experience are unaware of the process involved in building a professional network or…

The focus on construction in T&E education has drastically changed. This article presents a series of topics and design-based labs that can be taught at various grade levels to integrate STEM concepts while also increasing students' overall awareness of construction and structural technologies.

This article, the first of a two-part series, offers readers 13 teaching innovations debuted at the 2017 Association for Business Communication's annual conference in Dublin, Ireland. Assignment topics presented here include communication strategy and message-packaging skills, deep communication insights, and career and personal development.…

Teaching entrepreneurship--how to create, grow and run a business or organization--is one potential means to increase college and career readiness skills. Learning how to start a business can improve critical thinking, communication and collaboration (Gallagher, Stepien, & Rosenthal, 1992; Hmelo, 1998), which are key qualities for academic as…

The guide was developed to assist elementary school counselors and teachers in working together to provide children, grades K-5, with a school experience which addresses their career development needs through developing both affective and cognitive learnings. Part 1, The Importance of Career Guidance in the Elementary School, provides a general…

This guide, one of a series for various grade levels, contains Some Essential Learner Outcomes (SELOs) for career education in the primary grades in Minnesota. (The SELOs are selected samples of knowledge statements considered as essential learning outcomes for students in each of the subject areas taught in schools.) These SELOs for the primary…

To assist senior high school teachers and counselors in focusing more of the formal and informal curriculum upon career development, the resource guide offers suggested learning activities and supporting resource materials within a broad framework of career development objectives. Chapter 1 is a 1-page overview. Chapter 2 contains suggestions for…

Designed to help local educational agency personnel initiate an elementary school-level career development program, this guide provides examples of activities for planning, implementing, and evaluating an elementary occupational informational program. The guide begins with a series of definitions of career education-related terms. A rationale for…

This document contains a model for vocational career education and career guidance for grades 1-12, based on a program developed in the Washington County School District (Utah). The model is based upon the premise that major educational and vocational goals have been identified over the years by many state departments of education and local school…

The document is the outcome of a 1973 summer workshop involving 15 Mason City (Iowa) teachers and two facilitators in the writing of behavioral objectives allowing the incorporation of career education concepts within the framework of secondary curricula. Six basic goals were decided upon for formulating behavioral objectives for grades 7-12: (1)…

The Supplement provides actual lessons and units developed in career development programs throughout the State of Ohio which are samples of the curriculum development taking place in Ohio. The selection committee attempted to include only those materials which show consistency between objectives and activities. The materials range from single…

The 10-week mini-course, designed for junior high school students in English, in which careers and recreations become a basis for exploring the individual potential of students, contains three lesson plans. The overall goals emphasize communication skills, language usage, interpersonal skills and the development of knowledge of career areas. The…

The curriculum guide presents an objective-based vocational guidance program for disadvantaged students, K-12, offering local school districts in Pennsylvania a guidance model that may be modified to individual school settings in response to local and individual needs. Explicit, sequential learning modules are presented for grade level groupings…

Designed for use by diploma or graduate students in counselor education, this student's manual consists of six units of instructional materials dealing with vocational development theory. Topics of the units are historical and theoretical considerations, trait- and factor-based theory, developmental vocational theory, social and learning-based…

A sample unit focusing on Thanksgiving, to be used in conuunction with a K-2 World of Work unit, introduces the curriculum guide. The remainder of the Career Motivation segment of the Ohio Career Development Model consists of outlines for several units in each of the areas of World of Work, self, economics, and the individual and his environment,…