Designed for use by professional staff development personnel with pre-service and inservice educational personnel, this training manual was developed to train personnel to implement elementary school career education programs. This manual is divided into twelve chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the Project FOCUS Manual. The second chapter provides a general introduction to career education. Chapter 3 describes eight elements of career education (self-awareness, career awareness, appreciations and attitudes, educational awareness, economic awareness, decision making skills, skill awareness and beginning competence, and employability skills). Chapter 4 maps out the relationship of career education to the school curriculum. Chapter 5 presents strategies for infusing career awareness into the school curriculum. Chapter 6 discusses role-playing as an instructional strategy. Guidelines for developing learning activity centers for career awareness are presented in chapter 7. Chapter 8 explains how to use community resources for career education. Chapter 9 provides guidelines for preparing career education instructional units. Evaluating career education materials is covered in chapter 10. Chapter 11 addresses the role and function of school personnel in career education. Finally, chapter 12 provides information and resource materials regarding the evaluation of Project FOCUS. (BM)