This annotated bibliography is intended to serve as a resource for individuals providing career development services to blind and visually impaired persons. Included in the first section of the volume is a discussion of the career development intervention strategy model. The remaining chapters of the bibliography include descriptions of works…

The rationalisation of class sizes and subject offerings in majors, and the implementation of workloads models establishing parity in teaching hours and in student load per staff member across Faculty have created considerable challenges for tertiary foreign-language teaching over the past decade. This paper presents one way of responding to the…

The booklet is a guide for community resource people who have agreed to share their job experiences with high school students involved in experience-based learning programs. The programs allow students to observe and participate in the daily routines required in careers they may wish to pursue. Resource people can use this booklet to determine how…

Students participating in community-based job exploration programs will complete forms in this booklet at various times throughout the experience. The programs allow students to observe and participate in the daily routine of selected jobs with selected community resource persons. These forms serve as a diary of experiences. Preliminary sections…

This eighth in a series of eleven learning modules on program planning, development, and evaluation is designed to assist secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in preparing and updating vocational education courses of study. (A course of study describes who is to be taught, what is to be taught, how much time will be allotted to each…

Issues relating to sex fairness in career education discussed in this information analysis paper include the basis of concern for sex fairness in career education, the current status of women in employment, leadership positions in the career education work force, and ways to make career education sex fair for both women and men. Characteristics of…

The guide is designed to help high school art teachers develop an introductory art survey course which focuses on the basic elements and theoretical principles of art products from prehistory through the present day. A major objective of the course is to help students analyze the relationships between art and society and between the artist and…

The nationwide study reported here was designed to (1) identify the essential agricultural competencies needed for entry employment and advancement in the major agriculture and agribusiness occupations and (2) validate the importance of identified competencies for each occupation. Following a brief project summary, the remainder of the report is…

The Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program was designed to provide on-site vocational experiences for high school youth in order to promote career development skills and knowledge, and knowledge of one's own interests, abilities, and values. The following skills were also emphasized: reading, problem solving, oral communication, writing,…

The Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program was designed to provide on-site vocational experiences for high school youth in order to promote: (1) career development skills and knowledge; (2) self-knowledge--interests, abilities, and values; (3) reading skills; (4) problem solving skills; (5) oral communication; (6) writing skills; (7)…

Articles presented in this monograph form a work which characterizes career education as a curriculum component that requires a team effort on the part of teachers, counselors, and administrators if it is to work in the public schools. The first article outlines some specific strategies which teachers can use to make career education an integral…

Lessons in this document are the product of a senior high school teachers' workshop sponsored by the State Project to Implement Career Education (SPICE) in New York City schools. These career education sample lessons, covering nine subject areas, are designed to be used along with regular curriculum materials and relate to self-awareness, career…

This publication is a guide for teachers who conduct parenthood education classes as part of the secondary consumer and home economics program in Alabama. The parenthood education program guide is divided into four units covering the following competencies: understanding the family; developing maturity and independence; developing parenting…

This unit of instruction on selection and living styles for energy conservation in single-family and multi-family housing and mobile homes was designed for use by home economics teachers in Florida high schools and by home economics extension agents as they work with their clientele. It is one of a series of 11 instructional units (see note)…

This curriculum guide is designed to offer guidelines along with supporting resources and teaching ideas from which the local postsecondary instructor can extract a machine shop curriculum that meets local needs. Following an outline of the philosophy and goals underlying state and local vocational education programs in Georgia, the purpose and…