One of eight guides in the Arts and Learning series, this guide, which was originally developed through the arts in education program of Homer Central School, New York, contains 25 classroom strategies (prototype units or prototype instructional strategies) that can be used by teachers to infuse the arts into their teaching of language…

The Study of Work Project: Phase II refined, expanded, and institutionalized many experience-based prevocational career education practices implemented at Eastside High School, Paterson, New Jersey. To ensure continuation of these practices subsequent to cessation of grant-funded support, Phase II emphasized development of a team of teachers to…

This module is intended to help guidance personnel in a variety of educational and agency settings increase their skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating community involvement and public relations activities as a part of an overall career guidance program. The module is one of a series of competency-based guidance program training…

Materials contained in the 16 volumes that make up the Rural America Series suggest practices through which rural schools can meet local community needs and realize their potential for career program delivery. This handbook, one of five in subset C, describes a variety of school-based activities designed to assist students in accomplishing that…

This packet contains both teacher's guides and learners' materials for a course on English as a Second Language (ESL) for parents of schoolaged children. Developed for use in the DuPage High School District (Villa Park, Illinois), the materials can be used with adaptations by other continuing education programs. The packet contains 14 lessons. For…

This second volume of a two-volume report of a New York State consortium for career education contains project performance and evaluation reports from five of seven component districts: Erie Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES); Orleans-Niagara BOCES; Rockland BOCES; three rural districts; and the Syracuse City School District.…

The paper describes the "ACCEPT" (A Community and Career Education Process for Training the Handicapped) Model, designed to deliver career education services to lower-functioning handicapped children (trainable mentally retarded, moderately multi-handicapped, and variations of functional retardation regardless of primary disability) ages…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on community consumer resources is the second in a set of four core curriculum modules on consumer approach to homemaking education. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see…

This aggregation model for urban school career counseling services presents a systematic alternative to those career guidance and counseling strategies presently in place in urban schools. Its purpose is to facilitate collaborative efforts by school staff, parents, students, and the community in building career guidance and counseling sevices…

THIS BOOKLET EXPLORES THE RAMIFICATIONS OF WORKING WITH PHYSICALLY DISABLED COLLEGE STUDENTS (INCLUDING PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED, DEAF, HARD OF HEARING, BLIND, AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED) AND SUGGESTS PROCEDURES TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE FOR THEM. CHAPTER ONE DISCUSSES THE INCREASING ENROLLMENT OF PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED STUDENTS IN COLLEGES AND…

THIS GUIDE FOR GRADES 9 TO 11 WAS DEVELOPED FROM MANY SOURCES BUT WITH MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TEACHERS WHO USE IT IN A SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAM TO PARTIALLY MEET DIPLOMA REQUIREMENTS. UNITS ARE IN ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT, ECONOMICS, HOME ECONOMICS, FOOD SERVICE, AND SHOP. EACH COURSE PLAN…

PARTICIPANTS IN THIS REGIONAL WORKSHOP HAD AS THEIR OBJECTIVE TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PURPOSES, MEANS, ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK, POLICIES, PROCEDURES, COURSE CONTENT, ADVISORY COMMITTEES, INITIATION, TEACHING TECHNIQUES, COMMUNITY RESOURCES, AND LEADERSHIP TECHNIQUES NECESSARY TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND THE PROGRAM OF ADULT AND YOUNG FARMER…

Intended to assist in the evaluation of community education programs, this guide is for program decision makers, primarily at the local level, including staff of school districts, park and recreation departments, other local and state agencies, and private citizens serving on community education boards and councils. Part 1, Evaluation and…

To infuse career education with language arts and science, a task force of Oregon educators developed, evaluated, and finalized a set of seven career education competencies for secondary language arts and science teachers, 7-12. These competencies cover the following areas: attitudes toward life and careers; job search method and job adjustment;…

Strategies and techniques for developing community-based programs for mentally retarded persons in rural areas must take into consideration local circumstances, resources, and characteristics. Rural norms such as overt racial segregation, social conformity, the importance of church, and the stigma of obtaining human services for personal problems…