A school or district's technology education program consists of a series of courses that address standards. Recent trends (e.g., No Child Left Behind), administrative pressures to increase student achievement, or the school's desire to align with standards, challenge the technology education teacher to implement new courses into the technology…

Computer assisted career guidance (CACG) systems have been around for at least the past 20 years in career guidance centers. There are two types of systems: information retrieval and guidance interaction. This study investigated the effectiveness of DISCOVER in facilitating career decisions among college students. DISCOVER is a systematic career…

This print component to the telecast "Making the American Dream Work for Our Children: A New Vision of School Guidance" focuses on collaborative approaches to helping young people achieve in school and raise their academic and vocational aspirations. Like the telecast, this booklet offers alternative approaches to established methods of school…

Individuals have increasingly recognized the role that guidance for learning and work can play in encouraging adults to achieve their educational and personal goals. This pack of materials was designed to help those who offer guidance to adults and take a pro-active approach to developing quality assurance. These seven booklets are intended for…

The views of four individuals about the results of a survey of 50 schools and colleges regarding how they are communicating with each other in terms of the Buckley Amendment are presented. Methods for handling college recommendations now that such forms are not confidential are discussed. Panel discussion at the Annual Conference of the National…

Career guidance by objectives and results, capitalizing on the organizational and implementation processes of management by objectives and results, requires a broadened, developmental concept of career guidance and the use of student needs assessment and program evaluation techniques for the selection of objectives and content. (EA)

If counseling services are to remain a viable force in the American school system, black counselors must be involved in significant numbers, join the counseling/guidance professional organizations, and situate counseling in the context of a black life style directed toward self-determination, respect, and justice. (EH)

The authors explore the roles that distributive education teachers and counselors may assume in the establishment and maintenance of a job placement service. (EA)

Describes how one middle school organized for better guidance services by developing a team of twelve teachers and two counselors, with each teacher required to spend some specified time in guidance department working with students and counselors. Eventually, the team became a catalyst for better teacher communication. (HMV)

Guidance workers need to become psychological educators. The article dis&usses the aims of education and the ideas of John Dewey and Jean Piaget. The Minnesota Psychological Education program is briefly described. Presented at an Elementary School Guidance Conference, Hopkins, Minnesota, September, 1974. (Author/BW) sota, September, 1974.…

A project was conducted to identify and describe existing exemplary practices and models for upgrading on a continuous basis the required knowledge and competencies of those who provide comprehensive systems of guidance. Following data collection, including site visits and analysis, the project addressed itself to the design of a system of…

ALTHOUGH THE DROPOUT PROBLEM IS ONE OF GREAT CONCERN AT BOTH LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS, IT IS READILY APPARENT THAT THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE SAME EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY. DROPOUT RATES VARY CONSIDERABLY FROM ONE COMMUNITY TO ANOTHER, AND EVEN DIFFER BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE SAME SCHOOL SYSTEM. LIMITATIONS IN PREVIOUS STUDIES OF THE PROBLEM HAVE…

THE TWO PROGRAMS REVIEWED ARE THE DEMONSTRATION GUIDANCE PROJECT AND HIGHER HORIZONS PROGRAM. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEMONSTRATION GUIDANCE PROJECT INCLUDED EXTRA TEACHERS, SPECIAL TUTORING, GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING, CLINICAL SERVICES, INTENSIVE COURSES IN ENGLISH, CULTURAL, AND ARTISTIC EVENTS. THE PROJECT STARTED WITH JUNIOR…

VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE PALO ALTO GUIDANCE PROGRAM WERE PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM WERE BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT GUIDANCE SHOULD FOSTER INDIVIDUALIZATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL CHILDREN BY PROVIDING CONDITIONS WHICH WOULD ENSURE THIS INDIVIDUALIZATION. THESE TWO THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS, REINFORCEMENT THEORY AND…