This teaching guide for social service occupations is one of a series of five performance and employer-based secondary level guides for vocational education. Part 1 provides tools, resources, and a process to be used at the local level to develop a social service occupations training curriculum and supporting instructional activities. It includes a comprehensive overview of the career field; a performance-based listing of social service job tasks; a description of the attitudes and values inherent to social service; a method for developing learning activity packages; two sample learning activity packages; descriptions of eight commonly used teaching methods; a listing of instructional resources, references, and activities to be used when developing learning activity packages. Part 2 offers the guidance counselor social service career information and recommends steps to determine criteria for student selection and placement in the training program. It includes a theoretical framework for guidance activities in the training program; a description of the general aptitude test battery; a composite profile of the entry-level worker; a listing of instructional units of a widely used remediation program; the Worker Trait Codification System (from the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles"); descriptions of related jobs; and job titles organized by the four major worker trait groups associated with social work. (NJ)