Self Understanding Through Occupational Exploration (SUTOE) is a one year course designed to assist ninth graders with educational and career planning. SUTOE aims at enabling students to gain knowledge and understanding of possible future goals and job opportunities, to develop social skills in applying for work via application and job interviews, to gain understanding of employers' viewpoints and requirements, to broaden knowledge of the general economic structure as related to labor force needs, to understand the importance of opportunities offered through high school and post-high school training programs, and to assess one's own strengths and weaknesses. The course, individually tailored, includes evaluation of goals via investigation, idea exchanges in groups, role playing, interviewing, letter writing, reporting, visitations, speakers, films, appropriate research exercises, and testing. A teacher's guide accompanies the course description. (KP)