Intended as a practical tool for high school classroom teachers, the manual examines career objectives and activities for handicapped students. An introduction presents the eight goals of career education. A chapter on assessment provides sample instruments and information from a vocational evaluation unit. Extensive material in chapter 3 is…

Designed for use with the level 1 curriculum guide (Entrepreneurship Education: Learning the Skills), this level 2 (volume 2) guide focuses on planning and completing student projects. The first of three major sections is designed to familiarize students with how projects are completed. The second section, Resources for Planning and Completing…

This module was developed to help preservice and inservice teachers understand the rationale behind the community education movement, its development in North Carolina, and how to infuse at least one of its components (use of community resources) into classroom instruction. The module consists of three units. The first unit is designed to help…

Designed to stimulate student motivation, this handbook contains a wide variety of activities and strategies for use at the elementary and secondary school levels. Nine sections contain incentive ideas which can be applied to student achievement, teaching techniques, subject areas, community resources, public relations, special programs,…

The guide contains consumer education learning activities and references for use with Manpower Development and Training Act trainees. It is organized in six sections, each dealing with one of the following basic concepts: (1) the economic system, (2) income procurement, (3) consumer alternatives, (4) consumer behavior determinants, (5) roles,…

Designed to provide information for local school district personnel in the state of Washington, this Community Resource Trainer (CRT) manual is the product of those school district administrators and coordinators who piloted the CRT Program in three small, rurally isolated high schools between the 1972-73 and 1973-74 school years. Illustrating the…

This module is one in a series of four performance-based modules developed to prepare vocational educators to serve limited English proficient (LEP) students. It is designed to help the vocational teacher learn how to adapt instructional techniques and materials to serve LEP students effectively. The module is made up of a series of four learning…

This curriculum guide provides materials for a four-unit course at the secondary level in family and individual services. Unit objectives are listed and referenced to the content outline that follows. The four units cover these topics: recognizing family and individual needs, resources for meeting family and individual needs, using services to…

This module, one in a series of competency-based administrator instructional packages, focuses on a specific competency that vocational education administrators need to be successful in the area of school-community relations. The purpose of the module is to give administrators skills in involving the community in vocational education by providing…

This unit, one in a series of packets of teacher and student materials for cooperative occupational education (COE) designed for special needs students, is intended to develop students' awareness of community resources as well as their civic responsibilities to the community. The instructor material includes the following items: unit objectives,…

This document contains 60 sample projects that can be used in an experience-based career education (EBCE) program. (Experience-based career education is a type of program in which high school students spend a major portion of their time on learning projects in the community. Activities in EBCE are tailored to individual needs, abilities, learning…

This twentieth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in locating and evaluating community resources, determining when and how to use a subject matter expert in the vocational program, and conducting a presentation session in which a subject…

This document presents a model Comprehensive Career Development Program for grades K-12 developed for the state of South Carolina. The model provides the framework for local school districts to evolve a program that will meet the specific career development needs for their district's students. The model is planned to organize, expand, and extend…

Designed to help state and local education administration personnel who are responsible for estabishing workshops or inservice training programs on vocational education of handicapped students, this guide contains materials on coordination of the steps necessary for organizing an inservice meeting. (It accompanies the handbook, which is available…

This document contains the appendixes to the final report of the Occupational Competence Access Project (OCAP), a study conducted to facilitate student access to (1) occupational opportunities through the provision of a guidance system incorporating student capabilities; (2) occupational opportunities through the provision of industrially…