Student transients in San Diego Unified School District occur as transfers from outside the local district, transfers from within the local district, immigrants from other countries, and dropouts. The 22,000 transient students each year create problems related to: (1) internal organization, staffing, planning, and programs to minimize educational…

This guide is designed to stimulate career guidance program development. It provides an analysis of current information and organizes this information according to various program development areas. Ultimately, the guide is intended to help a school or community group design a career program tailored to its own needs. (Author/PC)

As part of the activities related to the development and evaluation of a comprehensive guidance system. geared primarily to systems of individualized education now being implemented, an experimental investigation was initiated in an attempt to meet a postulated cluster of student orientation needs associated with successful adaptation to such a…

The Presbyterian Guidance Program, the major emphases of which are on educational and occupational guidance, was evaluated from a variety of perspectives. Two speakers took an objective look at the program and center, defining their concern with "normal" youth, and discussing such aspects as: (1) accessibility of the service; (2) locations of the…

The report deals with the influence of computer technology on education, particularly guidance. The need for computers is a result of increasing complexity which is defined as: (1) an exponential increase of information; (2) an exponential increase in dissemination capabilities; and (3) an accelerating curve of change. Listed are five functions of…

The five projects presented in this report illustrate different approaches to vocational guidance. An occupational survey of St. Lawrence County was undertaken to determine the curriculum needs of the vocational centers. Secondary objectives were to determine employment needs and opportunities and to provide improved occupational information,…

Project Upper Cumberland was a three year endeavor which served 16 Tennessee counties. The final report and evaluation, in three documents, summarizes the three innovative programs which it engendered: (1) teacher inservice training, emphasizing human relations; (2) a pilot cultural arts program (art, music, drama) for grades 1-12; and (3) a pilot…

Excerpts from the revised 1968 Minimum Standards for Ohio High Schools, and from the 1968 Minimum Standards for Ohio Junior High Schools are contained in this publication. Section I cites minimum guidance standards for (1) the school guidance program, including guidance staff functions, teacher participation, and administrator participation; and…

Instruments and methods are considered by many the nuts and bolts of school testing programs, for both individuals and groups. Too often, the individual is lost in the machinery of such a school program, and data collected becomes the end product of appraisal and assessment. Programs of student appraisal procedures should be developed around eight…

This set of materials was developed for a special ERIC/CAPS Workshop on, "New Developments in Guidance and Personnel Services: Guidance and Student Services for the Culturally Different," held at the 1970 American Personnel and Guidance Association Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. Members of the ERIC/CAPS staff developed generalizations and…

This monograph attempts to answer some of the most commonly asked questions concerning career education: (1) What is career education?; (2) Why do we need career education?; (3) When and where does career education take place?; Also outlined are the goals of elementary education and how the development of career education awareness can fit into an…

This is a booklet in the Project IDEALS series concerning personal development/social behavior. The first section details the various aspects and innovations concerning student discipline. Sections two and three deal with student-parent relationships and peer relationships respectively. A fourth section discusses teacher effectiveness in the…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the sixth in a series describing current, successful career education practices. Intended for counselors, this monograph has been prepared to show the relationship between career education, career…

The American School Counselors Association presents position statements concerning a number of issues such as: student rights, principles and guidelines of confidentiality, drug education and counseling, guidance service programs and financial problems of counseling services. (SE)

The evolution of a third-generation computerized career guidance system is described and the advantages of a systematic model for the delivery of career guidance materials are presented. (Author)