It's a slippery area where footing is easily lost and where more than talent--time, persistence, and guts--is needed before one can beat the odds and make a place for one's self. (Editor)

The implementation guide to Project SPICE (Special Partnership in Career Education) - a curriculum designed to develop and demonstrate effective methods and techniques for providing career education experiences for educable mentally handicapped (EMH) students (ages 11-to-13 years) is provided. A description of the program focuses on program…

Descriptions of the Nogales dropout prevention program, including activities of the career counseling center and causes for dropping out of school, introduce the guide. The goals and objectives of the independent study center for potential dropouts include giving assistance to students so they may complete their high school education and guidance…

The guide briefly describes the objectives and content of a career awareness course consisting of a nine-week block (approximately 45 sessions) which was offered to all Dickinson Area Vocational High School students during their sophomore year. It gives week by week suggestions for implementing the career awareness program, including seminars,…

The Aides to Career Education (ACE) Program handbook is designed for use by administrators, teachers, and instructional aides. It provides information on the use of the aides by presenting guidelines for their most effective utilization, defining legal responsibilities of teachers and aides within the program, providing information on program…

The substance of this manual centers on the development and implementation of the Bowling Green, Kentucky career education program. Preparing students for life-centered careers, the school system has developed, through a three year process, a program that involves every teacher, guidance counselor and administrator and permeates the fabric of the…

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…

This catalog contains information about planning, career guidance programs, and five selected planning models. General information about planning and educational change is discussed in the section on planning, along with specific guidelines for planners of career guidance programs. Two worksheets, "Planning Considerations" and "Selection Guide,"…

This booklet contains abstracts describing successful educational programs initiated and implemented by school systems. Each abstract follows a similar format offering concise information, a description of the project, the target audience, financial requirements, materials used, services available, an evaluation of the program, and the name and…

This project was initiated under provisions of Title III to develop guidelines and recommendations for the development and use of videotaped field trips in guidance and career education in Ohio. The purposes of the project were to: (1) develop and field test career orientation videotapes (occutapes), (2) refine the tapes and procedures for…

Brief descriptions for 45 ESEA Title III projects operating during the 1974-1975 fiscal year are given. Eighteen of these projects have completed their first year of operating with Title III funds. Among these are improving secondary reading, advisement, education by objectives, career education, tapes and techniques for underachievers, early…

This 2-part experimental and demonstration project report is based on research and analysis conducted by the Center for Urban Programs at St. Louis University. Part I, which is derived from observations of summer youth employment programs in several cities, describes a general program guide for operating future summer youth employment programs.…

Specific curricular innovations in universities throughout the country which attempt to integrate academic majors in the humanities with additional, supplemental professional training are summarized in the program guide section of this document. Most of these programs are interdisciplinary, some including revised courses and internship…

Intended to assist others wishing to adapt the Arizona model, this guide describes the processes of the Summer Technical Institute Project. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the Summer Technical Institutes, career exploration programs directed primarily at young women in their early teens. Chapter 2 is a literature review conducted to ascertain if…

This program guide examines a comprehensive occupational preparation program for the handicapped that is fiscally responsible, in concert with current practice, and has practical application possibilities. Section 1 is a position statement for the guide. Section 2 is a diagram showing program goals and objectives. The purpose of section 3 is to…