The project reported here was done to provide vocational teacher educators in Colorado with an off-campus delivery system for an introductory inservice or preservice course in cooperative education and coordinating techniques. Following a brief project summary, the remainder of this report is comprised of appendixes. The first four of five…

Designed for use by those who work with the disabled, this handbook explains and provides procedures for implementing the Lifelong Career Development (LCD) Model. (Designed for implementation at the community college level, the LCD model provides a competency-based approach to meeting the career development needs of disabled people and provides…

These Project TEAMS (Techniques and Education for Achieving Management Skills) instructional materials consist of five units for use in training health care administrators. Unit 1 contains materials designed to help the health care administrators increase their management skills in regard to self-awareness, time management, problem solving,…

A study examined whether the Career Intern Program (CIP) can be replicated in new sites at reasonable cost within a reasonable period of time. (The CIP is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or…

This evaluation of programs conducted in fiscal 1978 under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) consists of an overall picture of the 1978 YEDPA program experience and case studies of programs in 12 states. Findings and recommendations are presented concerning the implementation of YEDPA programs by Comprehensive Employment…

This sampler is the product of the Career/Vocational Development Student Profile Project conducted in New Jersey in 1979-80. The purpose of the project was to field test the Career/Vocational Development K-14 Goal Matrix (see note) to see whether the goals, objectives, and indicators are realistic and appropriate for the age/grade levels they…

This report of the High School and Beyond (HS&B) study (a national longitudinal study of over 30,000 sophomores and 28,000 seniors enrolled in 1,015 public and private schools) contains nine graphs and 28 tables summarizing data on students' high school experiences, activities outside school, values and attitudes, plans for college, and plans…

A study was conducted to determine the state of the art in vocational education programming for disadvantaged in Pennsylvania and the nation, and to develop materials to improve vocational programs for the disadvantaged. Project efforts focused on programs serving the academically/economically disadvantaged in regular classes, special classes, and…

These instructor lesson plans and teaching guides and student study guides for a secondary-postsecondary-level course for equal opportunity and treatment personnel are one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. Purpose stated for the…

This curriculum consists of fourteen courses based upon basic life problems which are designed to provide volunteers in the College for Living (CFL) program with materials to teach survival skills to developmentally disabled adults. CFL is intended to supplement residential programs in and around Denver and aid institutions in orienting…

This publication is a comprehensive curriculum guide designed to assist local educators in planning for comprehensive business programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels. Information is of value for use by teacher educators when preparing students for teaching careers. The curriculum guide is divided into 18 sections. The first five…

This second of two parts presents learning activities for four occupational clusters of a ninth-grade cluster program. It contains theory and hands-on activities that explore the occupational requirements and working environment of these areas to help students make intelligent decisions of possible career choices based on levels of interest and…

This curriculum guide, developed during a pilot project at three sites in Ohio during the 1973-75 period, is designed for the teacher implementing a pre-postsecondary program in health careers for eleventh and twelfth grade students. The guide contains an introduction, a section on program philosophy and assumptions, elements of a…

The Pioneer Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) first-year (1976-77) activities were reviewed. The project was intended to implement the Far West Laboratory (FWL) version of experience based career education (EBCE) in three Hall County, Georgia, high schools, and to prepare for second-year (school year) implementation of the program in…

One of twelve instructional units in the Native American Career Education (NACE) program, this unit is intended to help Indian junior high school students understand some of the principles which govern cultural change and to show how it is possible to adapt to change while retaining essential cultural elements. The five activities in the unit…