This staff user guide accompanies the Career Survival Kit prepared for teenage parents in Wisconsin. The guide addresses effective program components and methods for serving teen parents and guidelines for using the curriculum. Topics include facts on teenage pregnancy and parenthood; characteristics of teen parents; information on dropout…

Employers expect their employees to have basic skills in reading, writing, and math; speaking and listening skills; problem-solving ability; employability skills; reasoning skills; leadership skills; computer literacy; interpersonal skills; ability-to-learn/learning-how-to-learn skills; and collaborative/teamwork skills. How well do employers…

This book is designed as a text and workbook for students of English as a Second Language. The workbook stresses grammar, reading, writing, and pronunciation in the context of real-life situations where competency in written and conversational skills and in problem-solving can be critical. The format is sequential. Thirteen units on different…

This competency-based module uses the Ocean County (New Jersey) Vocational-Technical Schools curriculum-infused model for infusing basic skills instruction into vocational education. The model demonstrates the relationship of vocational skills to communication, mathematics, and science. The document begins with a philosophy statement; preface; a…

This document contains business and office occupations-related materials to help teachers and parents teach access skills to Missouri junior high and high school special needs students who want to pursue a vocational program in secretarial and office technology, bookkeeping, accounting, and payroll, or data entry. Access skills are defined as…

This document contains marketing occupations-related materials to help teachers and parents teach access skills to Missouri junior high and high school special needs students who want to pursue a vocational program in marketing. Access skills are defined as those skills needed to access vocational education programs and be successful in the world…

This teacher's manual provides teachers with an overview of the various learning packages that comprise the four-volume series of student workbooks entitled "Getting Your Foot in the Door." Dozens of introductory or follow-up activities are also included in this manual, which is designed as a do-it-yourself staff development course. The manual is…

These conference proceedings consist of 25 presentations: "Conducting Experimental Research" (Miller) "Conducting Research Overseas: Some Thoughts Based upon Experiences in the United Kingdom" (Scott); "Applying Research to the Classroom" (Wayne); "DACUM: A Competency-Based Curriculum Tool" (Norton); "A…

This curriculum guide provides instructional materials for an 8-week training program, entitled Hospitality Occupational Skills Training (HOST) Cooperative. It offers an alternative skills training program to meet the needs of disadvantaged, minority populations and of employers who must recruit more highly skilled workers from those populations.…

The transition from industrial arts to technology education is a priority in Colorado. Millions of dollars have been and will be spent to renovate industrial arts facilities and laboratories. Four Colorado middle schools have exemplary technology education programs. The Eagle Crest Technology Education Laboratory is used for both middle and high…

The guide contains a competency-based English-as-a-Second-Language/literacy curriculum, including coordinated lesson plans for three instructional levels (beginning, intermediate, pre-literacy) and an employability counseling component. The curriculum is arranged in an order reflecting the job search process. The competencies in the curriculum are…

This resource guide is intended to assist local vocational education service providers in implementing preemployment competencies as a focused portion of a local vocational education curriculum. Section 1 explains the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Competency System. The four competency areas--career decision making, life and work management,…

This bibliography is an addendum to a 1987 update of an earlier bibliography on proficiency-related issues in language teaching and testing. The bibliography includes publications that appeared in 1987 and 1988, and a few that appeared in 1986. The 84 citations include basic bibliographic information, and are organized in the following categories:…

An overview of conflict management as it relates to the role of the principal is presented. The traditional approach to conflict, which minimizes conflict and emphasizes social control, is contrasted with the perspective that views conflict as inevitable, functional, and manageable. Intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts, functions of conflict,…

Addressing the concerns and resources of small, rural school districts, this book sets out a rationale and model plan for school-community relations. After introductory material and a review of what's been done, the first major section lists and describes 10 criteria shown by research to be most important for a small school district community…