This text provides a programmatic overview of the practice of school counseling and advocates for comprehensive programs of essential services. Chapter topics include: (1) "The School Counseling Profession," which covers development of the field and professional identity; (2) "Comprehensive School Counseling Programs," which discusses the…

Business educators can provide career guidance activities for high school students through recruitment, development, and placement activities. Techniques discussed are: slide/tape programs, films, tests, demonstrations, minicourses, occupational reference library, field trips, interest clubs, advisory committees, resource speakers, and placement…

This curriculum guide outlines the K-12 guidance curriculum that is being implemented in the Ripon, Wisconsin, School District. The first three short sections of the guide introduce the developmental guidance model, describe the project that produced it, and recommend staffing changes needed to implement the model. The following 10 sections…

This manual is designed to aid school personnel to establish a student advisory program in the middle school. The rationale, definition and benefits of the program are detailed in an initial section, including areas of responsibility and the role of principal, teachers, counselors, and special services staff. The second section presents a…

The Bloomington, Illinois public schools recognized the need for a developmental and continuous guidance program from grades kindergarten through 12. During 1965-66, an elementary school guidance pilot project was initiated in two schools. This report provides information about the implementation of the program and role and functions of the…

Activity from January 1 through March 31, 1966 was centered on the derivation of topic objectives for each course of study and on the completion of junior high school guidance program plans. This report describes the procedures for developing the guidance program by describing the guidance program as it now exists in the Quincy Public Schools,…

Self-study is described as a process wherein local school district guidance staffs, with the aid of consultants if needed, determine the objectives for guidance services within a local setting and establish methods by which those objectives can be met most effectively. Program objectives and related activities are formulated only after sufficient…

The booklet provides some guidelines and suggestions around which career guidance programs may design their standards. It discusses and briefly outlines some recent legislation, publications, speeches, and committee actions which deal with the objectives and methods of career guidance. It lists 10 assumptions which should be considered when…

This document contains four separate presentations which comprised a workship at the APGA Convention, 1975. The workshop was designed to help guidance counselors set up a successful guidance unit, and each presentation examines a particular component of the unit. Hence, the first paper deals with problems encountered by guidance personnel in…

The Guidance and Counseling Task Force of the California State Department of Education was charged with the task of studying the pupil personnel services available to students in California schools and of developing a plan for improving and extending those services where needed. This document is the result of more than a year of study and direct…

This publication is designed to assist local school districts and other educational agencies in implementing career education in Idaho. Career education is part of a comprehensive education program and should not be conceived as a time segment of education such as vocational education or academic education. The basic educational objectives should…

The Institute on Training for Change in Student Personnel Services was designed to meet the need for imaginative and innovative approaches to student personnel services in light of contemporary realities. Six papers presented at the Institute concern perspectives on the nature of man, strategies for change, student development, towards a positive…

Describes the four phases of the Comprehensive Career Education Model and its curriculum, guidance, and evaluation tasks. (SB)

In this article, the authors describe how they use a strategic planning tool known as SWOT as a framework for case analysis, using it to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a public works project intended to enhance regional economic development in Tempe, Arizona. Students consider the project in light of a variety of…