This guide provides information about various types of alternative education programs that address the educational and behavioral needs of disruptive students. The programs suggested are aimed at students whose behavior is so disruptive that they must be removed from classes or from the school for varying lengths of time. These programs provide…

A model program for high school guidance is presented. It is based on the idea that each individual should be provided the maximum opportunities for self-determination. Thus its primary goal is the facilitation of considered decision-making in the students' development of personal and career goals. The model is presented in terms of four steps:…

Presented are written materials developed through a research-through-service program to devise, test, and demonstrate procedures which schools can use to identify secondary level gifted and talented students in a variety of social and cultural settings; and, on the basis of the characteristics discovered during the identification process, to…

This answer key is part of the materials in the Skills for Adult Guidance Educators (SAGE) system, which provides instruction in a set of necessary competencies specifically designed for adult education counselors, teachers, and paraprofessionals. The materials provide a process for developing and implementing counseling and guidance programs…

In establishing a secondary school teacher/advisor system and advisory group, the advisor should direct his efforts toward and encourage decisions about three critical areas: the state of the group and possible enabling norm patterns; the conditions of openness, trust, and safety in the group; and the student in relation to the group processes.…

Guidance Services Position Statement was prepared in response to a need expressed by people engaged either in developing school guidance activities or in expanding and improving such activities. The intent was to provide a guide or a framework upon which a guidance program might be constructed or made more effective. Five major sections focus on:…

During 1974-75, four community colleges of the City University of New York participated in a demonstration project utilizing a computer-assisted guidance system to provide occupational and educational information to students. At each college, a counselor in the office of the dean of students supervised the project and, with the help of student…

This orientation package provides an overview of all of the components of a comprehensive approach to guidance, counseling, and placement. The competencies related to each of the components are included in the package. The goal for the orientation module is for the participant to understand what the comprehensive approach to guidance, counseling,…

This material represents an effort to demonstrate, in a limited 60-minute experience, the type of staff development modules or packages developed with an E.S.E.A. Title III grant in Arizona by the Mesa Public schools. this staff development effort is an important part of a larger ongoing effort to develop, field test, and implement a comprehensive…

This module of a competency-based staff development training package is concerned with computer assisted reporting in a guidance, counseling, and placement program. The first goal of this module is to provide the participant with general knowledge of the process necessary to develop an effective computer information system. The second goal is to…

This report is intended: (1) to give local program developers and guidance practitioners an adequate base for conceptualizing and improving their programs for support personnel; (2) to provide a resource of concepts and of information about other programs; (3) to offer interested readers a comprehensive interdisciplinary coverage of the field of…

A model has been prepared by a task force of educators to serve as a conceptual framework for the development of career guidance programs. The model consists of three major components of career guidance which promote career identity, including: (1) career planning and decision making, (2) education, work, and leisure alternatives, and (3) life…

This booklet is intended to facilitate the development of counseling and guidance programs under Indiana's legislative mandate on planning, programming, budgeting systems (PPBS). It does not attempt to dictate how PPBS should be set up in each school, but rather to provide basic guidelines to aid the development of individual counseling and…

Discusses the nature of group guidance and presents a model allowing counselors to use materials in a way that relates to the needs of their clients. Steps in planning include needs assessment, establishing goals and creating a personalized program. (JAC)

We teach them the craft of word-spinning. The damage is done, we should be teaching them the art of seeing. (Frank Pick) In 1937 the Council for Art and Industry sponsored a national exhibition in London of materials "for use in connection with teaching in elementary schools." Local Education Authorities were encouraged to send…