A professional learning plan is the navigation system for the comprehensive professional learning system. Professional learning plans establish short- and long-term guidance for professional learning and its implementation. This workbook offers information and tools to walk educators through seven planning steps--from data analysis, to setting…

Despite federal regulations requiring measurable individualized education programs (IEPs), IEPs are often vague and unfocused, making them difficult to use in guiding instructional planning. Although a well-written IEP can be time consuming and labor intensive, a clearly written IEP, based on documented student needs, can and should be a guidepost…

Needed evaluation of programs can be achieved by applying to the guidance process the learner based evaluation procedure being developed for use with classroom instruction: (1) evaluation of outcomes; (2) informed selection of materials; (3) subsequent identification of process variables related to goal achievement. Presented at APGA, Las Vegas…

Counselors should strive to improve perceptions of the guidance program and counselor functions as well as the guidance process and resulting product. It is essential that the functions performed, and the manner in which they are performed, be evaluated through both internal and external assessment. The following steps are recommended for program…

The primary purpose of this project was to develop a procedural model for improving vocational guidance programs in senior high schools. Using a systems approach, the model: (1) emphasizes student behavioral objectives, (2) gives alternative methods for accomplishing these objectives, (3) provides program evaluation strategies, (4) incorporates…

Discusses advantages and disadvantages (to the counselor) of stating objectives in terms of observable behavior; also problem of demonstrating that guidance objectives are part of general educational objectives. (Author)

The final report of an 18-month project in University City, Missouri, to develop junior and senior high school components centered on career education, and a guidance and counseling component for both levels is presented. An Alternative High School was established, with students pursuing career education and academic core subjects; career…

This paper presents materials from the 29th Rutgers Guidance Conference on behavioral outcomes for career education, including the keynote address by Norman Gysbers on the concept of life career development as a new point of departure for improving and extending comprehensive career guidance programs. Three broad areas of knowledge, understanding,…

Detailing the development of a sequential career education program for grades 4-12, the report describes the following program components and the techniques used to accomplish their objectives: guidance and counseling model program (grades 6-12), career awareness at the elementary level (grades 4 and 5), career orientation and exploratory…

The purpose of the program evaluated in this report was to investigate the impact of increased guidance service on the educational performance of children. In this second year of the program; funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act, Title III, all students in two elementary schools, one intermediate school, a junior high school, and a…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

Phase 1 evaluation results of a demonstration project in career education are summarized in this report. (The program was designed to meet established goals and objectives through a series of guidance units administered to students in the classroom by teachers as part of the regular curriculum. General conclusions and recommendations are reported…