Describes some commonly found management errors in the development of new programs, and suggests some alternative courses of action for use by the inexperienced project director. Problems concerning goals, staffing, and accountability are covered. Some ideas for ogranized termination of a project are outlined. (Author)

Articulation is possible but the vocational objective of the student must be paramount, the means of achieving articulation secondary. (Editor)

Vocational education is built into a county system which includes a first-rate community college. (Editor)

Cites the necessity of involving students in their own career decisions and shows how to accomplish articulation based on this philosophy. (SB)

This publication reviews the role of music in the junior college, specifically music department characteristics and functions, the music curriculum, problems encountered by music programs, and recommended guidelines for music in the junior college. In developing a description of music departments, data on their structural organization, faculty,…

A study of the perceived importance of selected tasks for building and coordinating educational articulation programs in Alabama and the frequency with which those tasks were actually performed by articulation personnel revealed considerable disagreement about both the functions of articulation programs and their administration. (MSE)

Describes a study of formal curriculum-related articulation agreements for occupational programs existing between secondary and postsecondary institutions in New York. Offers guidelines for initiating or expanding articulation agreements, covering the benefits of articulation, characteristics of successful agreements, procedures for design and…

A summary is presented of the proceedings of a South Carolina conference of vocational and technical college presidents and directors which focused on (1) the articulation of selected secondary level vocational education and similar postsecondary level technical institution programs and (2) mutual concerns of vocational directors and technical…

TWO POLICY STATEMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS BRIEF DOCUMENT. THE FIRST, PREPARED IN 1956, LISTS QUALIFICATIONS FOR FLES PROGRAMS. THE 1961 STATEMENT OUTLINES OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES OF FLES PROGRAMS, AND CONCENTRATES ON SEQUENCE, ARTICULATION, EXPERIMENTATION IN PROGRAMS AND METHODS, AND FLES TEACHERS. (AS)

The handbook is designed primarily as a preservice training guide for prospective immersion program teachers and secondarily as a resource for immersion program administrators and parents of prospective enrollees. It includes: (1) an overview of the immersion model, describing its historical context and key features and briefly reviewing research…

This collection of presentations is meant to dramatize ongoing efforts at the state and local level where articulation between occupational and vocational education is being achieved. The presentations included are the following: (1) "Articulating Vocational Education at the Postsecondary Level"; (2) "Local Articulation Effort: The…

This handbook is designed to assist area vocational-technical schools and community colleges in their efforts to provide a sequence of continuity for students who choose to continue their education in a similar occupational field. Although originally developed for the field of electronics, the guide is generic in the sense that it will work for…

A study was conducted reviewing the current status of cooperation between area schools and secondary schools in providing vocational-technical education and developing proposals which may generate additional cooperation in vocational-technical education. Four sources provided basic information for this study: (1) data from the Iowa Department of…

This document provides a step-by-step guide to assist administrators in implementing a career awareness development program on the elementary level. First the program is described by the four basic attitudes and ten overall objectives which underlie all the program activities. Then the administrative responsibilities are presented under the…

Based on the need to strengthen articulation activities within the Illinois educational system, this project was designed to provide a formal articulation mechanism utilizing the concept of institutional coordination for the development of comprehensive vocational programs and services. Phase 1 of the project developed an articulation process…