During the 1974-75 school year, 23 educators and counselors participated in the third annual Career Guidance Institute, a cooperative effort of the National Alliance of Businessmen, Indiana University at South Bend, and the South Bend Community School Corporation. The institute was organized to increase the participants' awareness and knowledge of…

Developed to serve as a reference for the office duplication practices instructor, this teacher's handbook consists of ideas to aid the instructor in developing and implementing office duplication practices and teacher certification courses. Covered next are various aspects of public relations, including working with school personnel, working with…

This training manual, one of eight in a series, has been developed to help state and local supervisors and teacher educators in health occupations to conduct a workshop for vocational education teachers and administrators in the health occupations service area. The workshop's intent is to help these professionals to infuse the concepts and…

This training manual, one in a seris of eight, has been developed to help state and local supervisors and teacher educators in marketing and distributive education to conduct a workshop on sex equity, as it relates to their future programs, for vocational education teachers and administrators in the marketing and distributive education service…

This training manual, one in a series of eight, has been developed to help state and local supervisors and teacher educators in trade and industrial education to conduct a workshop on sex equity, as it relates to their future programs, for vocational education teachers and administrators in the trade and industrial service area. The workshop's…

This collection contains descriptions of 10 projects to prepare personnel to provide vocational education to special needs students. Included in each project report are an overview of project goals and activities, strategies found to be effective, problems encountered during the project, major resources required to operate the program, and the…

Built around a 1977 needs assessment which sampled 65% of the county Indian population, the Robeson County Title IV-A Compensatory Indian Education Project was structured into four categories of objectives: (1) Student Classroom Performance to increase academic performance; (2) Program Management and Maintenance to involve parents, educators and…

A culmination of the efforts of many Indian and concerned non-Indian people, the conference, attended by almost 1,500 American Indians and Alaska Natives representing 171 tribes, aimed to promote effective and adequate services needed by the Indian elderly. Based on input from the Indian community and service providers, five concurrent workshops…

One of a series devoted to career education in transportation, this guide, which is intended for use by teachers in grades 9-10, presents a program for the exploration of existing and emerging careers in transportation. Section I gives an introduction to career education and its four progressive phases: career awareness, orientation, exploration,…

This description of career education activities in Prince George's County, Maryland, was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of this…

This description of career education activities in the Highline Public Schools (Seattle, Washington) was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final…

The Carter Administration is adopting a Small Community and Rural Development Policy because: (1) rural America's human and natural resources are a mainstay of the nation's economy and way of life; (2) many rural areas are in the midst of significant economic and demographic change; (3) rural people and communities have greater unmet basic human…

THE DEMONSTRATED EFFECTIVENESS OF HEADSTART AND OTHER PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS IN EXPOSING DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN TO EXPERIENCES THAT DEVELOP LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTUAL GROWTH HAS LED TO A CALL FOR AN EXTENSION OF THIS PROGRAM INTO THE SEQUENTIAL SCHOOL YEARS. THIS PROSPECTUS SEEKS--(1) TO PROVIDE AN EXTENSION OF THESE EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMS FROM…

The concern of Indian communities for quality education and their insistence on community control of their schools makes school staff development vital. The strategy for staff development outlined in this handbook gives a community one way to make an instant response to staff needs. Workshops place school staff in a stronger position to work with…

Commissioned by the Office of Career Education (OCE), this monograph provides a perspective from which the OCE could (1) examine the human services education model implemented by the authors, and (2) consider its possible usefulness in OCE's future planning and development. The focus is on the potential alliance of career education and human…