The community college environment is complex and dynamic, requiring constant monitoring. To ensure that workforce education, a core component of community colleges' missions, remains aligned with colleges' environments, responsive to employers' needs, suited to students' interests and abilities, and current in content and technology, it is…

Provided is a guide to individualizing instruction in vocational education. Background information on the Alternatives Approach to Individualization in Vocational Education (AAIVE) Project and an introduction to the publication are presented in section I. Section II contains a glossary of terms used in this handbook and in the literature…

This guide is intended to assist planners in developing and using labor market and occupational information when assessing the need for and planning occupational training programs. The first chapter discusses the responsibilities of various federal, state, and local entities for developing labor market information. Special attention is given to…

Ways in which to organize a drive-in workshop are presented. They include selection of a chairperson, appointment of a steering committee, timing of the workshop, agenda, speakers, where to get information on drive-ins, awards, publicity campaign, and ways in which to boost membership in professional associations. (CT)

The overall goal of the Vocational Education Information Services project was to support vocational education in Indiana by facilitating more efficient use of information and by developing more effective products for wide dissemination. First, a needs assessment was conducted to determine specific user populations and user needs for information…

Written to assist local administrators in utilizing available data to plan local vocational education programs, this publication is organized around a series of planning tasks and manpower data. As one of the important sources of planning data, manpower information is explored for its usefulness in setting goals, determining labor market needs,…

Important factors to be considered in the development of new career programs and sources of further guidance and information are reviewed. (MSE)

Vocational educators must have good labor market information to make useful plans for vocational education, develop realistic curriculum, and counsel students effectively. There is little cooperation between coordinators and those who find work stations for training purposes. (Available from W. C. Publications Inc., P.O. Box 1578, Montclair, NJ…

Information on programs and activities which have been developed to reduce sex inequities in vocational education is provided. The document is organized into two sections: section 1 contains case studies of twelve programs selected from a nationwide search, and section 2 contains brief descriptions of twelve promising approaches to reducing sex…

Identifies the information resources available to help community colleges conduct vocational program needs analyses, focusing on federal, state, and local unemployment figures and employment projections; periodicals, newspapers, and government publications; emerging occupational categories; projections for new industries; sources for industrial…

This guide is a practical and informative handbook designed to assist administrators in establishing effective driver and traffic safety education programs. It is concerned with the standards for driver and traffic safety education in Ohio and the organization, procedures, and guidelines for carrying out those responsibilities. Responsibilities…

The second volume of the final report deals with the targeting system--one of a hierarchy of systems required to support the effective delivery of superior occupational education. It determines that program objectives match student training in occupations, that the best choice of occupations in which to train students has been made, and that the…

This training package is designed to assist sex equity personnel in implementing the Education Amendments of 1976. Chapter 1 examines the sex equity problem as it relates to vocational education. Chapter 2 discusses the concepts of program management and change agents in relation to the functions of the job of sex equity personnel. Chapter 3…

This bibliography lists the library holdings of the Illinois Bilingual Vocational Education Project that pertain to vocational English as a Second Language (VESL), career, and vocational education for the limited-English-proficient (LEP) population. The project is a statewide technical assistance and staff development center designed to help…

Volume 2 of the report on the development and implementation of a model regional information system for vocational-technical education consists of appendixes to volume 1 and includes the following supportive data and project materials: (1) information sources used by 36 administrators in Appalachian regions of Tennessee, North Carolina, and…