This document presents descriptions of nine United States Office of Education-sponsored career education projects selected on the basis of effectiveness by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel of the Educational Division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The project descriptions are arranged in an order which proceeds from…

This handbook contains thirty abstracts of career education programs that summarize techniques, processes, activities, and materials that have been used by students and teachers. The handbook, which was designed for use after the planning stages, includes items for kindergarten through grade twelve that can be related to various subject matter…

An experience-based career education project for gifted and talented high school students was implemented in three pilot schools in Jefferson County, Colorado. The model was adapted from an existing model, which was designed for the regular school population and based on a prototype model developed by Northwest Regional Education Laboratory.…

The primary purpose of this project was to demonstrate an effective model for selected preservice and inservice training of classroom teachers in the utilization of career education. Project activities included providing a three-day intensive experience in career education to ninety classroom teachers. Another activity was to provide a three-day…

Based on concepts and approaches resulting from the development of a series of Native American Career Education instructional units in a previous project, this project was designed to assist educational staff and Indian community members at four sites to initiate development of career education programs that would use available resources and…

This guide describes methods by which an educator can establish a program of career awareness for the educable mentally handicapped student using project SPICE (Special Partnership in Career Education) modules. The first of two sections provides an overview of the SPICE program. Specific topics included are peer facilitation, community career…

A two-year project was conducted to develop, implement, and evaluate a model demonstration career education program in a large urban setting (Detroit Public Schools). Major activities involved in the first year (phase I) included the following: (1) selecting fourteen target schools to be served; (2) determining the needs and specific career…

This guide is intended to serve as a resource for school, project, and/or community people in implementing a career education program for their Indian students. The guide is divided into four chapters, followed by an annotated bibliography. The first chapter describes the conditions and resources needed to start developing a program and how to…

The education directors from fifteen museums and performing companies in Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts, were trained to develop and pilot career education programs for K-12 students using the resources of their institutions. The project was divided into three segments and, during each segment, a series of training seminars were conducted…

To improve preparation of personnel in career education, a project conducted by Oregon's Interinstitutional Consortium for Career Education (ICCE) focused on three areas: staff development for college and university faculties; program development for teacher, counselor, and administrator preparation; and teacher certification and training program…

During the first year of a career education project, the University of Denver integrated career concepts into the programs offered by 10 of the 23 liberal arts departments. The departments were Mathematics, English, Political Science, History, Sociology, Philosophy, Mass Communications, Theatre, Physics, and Anthropology. Program goals were to…

This publication presents profiles of the federally funded career education state planning projects that were conducted in forty-nine states and five territories during fiscal years 1976 and 1977 under the provisions of the Education Amendments of 1974. The fifty-four profiles, arranged alphabetically by state and varying in length (from one to…

This report summarizes the two statewide staff development workshops that were conducted for faculties of Oregon colleges and universities participating in a consortium project designed to infuse career education into the preparation of teachers, counselors, and administrators. (Three previous workshops are reported in CE 019 416.) Included in…

The National Center for Career Education (NCCE) received a U.S. Office of Education grant to operate the Career Education Information, Training, and Instructional Materials Systems (CEITAIMS). CEITAIMS' 1976-77 proposal objective was to assist career education practitioners nationwide by facilitating the flow of career education materials and…

The intention of a project was (1) to encourage college and university deans and heads of performing arts departments to hold an Arts and Entertainment Career Seminar on their own compus for faculty and performing arts majors and (2) to provide these institutions with written and visual materials for such a seminar. Two conferences were held, one…