Designed as a component of a pilot career exploration program at Vale Middle School, Vale, Oregon, this interdisciplinary guide provides a model for teachers at the junior high and middle school level to use in relating all areas of the school curriculum to the four life roles advocated by the concept of career education (to become a responsible…

IPAR, whose name originally stemmed from its official name--Institute for Public Affairs Research, Inc.--is described as a nonprofit organization operating in Portland, Oregon, and designed to bring students and their teachers into closer contact with all aspects of the working world by (1) recruiting community resources as speakers in classroom…

The pamphlet provides an overview of Project VIGOR, Oregon's Exemplary Career Education Program (1970-73). The program design includes career awareness in grades K-6, career and self-exploration in grades 7-10, occupational preparation in grades 11-12, and occupational specialization at the postsecondary level. Teachers from all grade levels were…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children begin to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…

A project was conducted to build motivation and increase language arts skills of disadvantaged students through involvement in a career exploration program. A class of 28 students reviewed career clusters and indicated their personal interest. Employed representatives from the community with backgrounds similar to the students' visited the…

The report describes Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) through examination of the concept as practiced at pilot programs in four initial communities. The first chapter discusses the creation of EBCE, identifies four crises to which schools must respond, defines EBCE, and describes program goals and characteristics. The next four chapters…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…

Divided into three major sections, this description of career and vocational education in small Oregon schools includes the following: (1) Introduction and Implementation (describes career awareness for grades K-6, career exploration for grades 7-10, career preparation for grades 11 and 12, and career education requirements for graduation and…

Special educators from rural and remote school districts in eastern Oregon surveyed local employers and designed a school-to-work site-based work-experience program for students with disabilities in an area with limited employment resources. Components of the six-year program (grades 7-12) and the outcome of enhancing associated work skills are…

A three-year career education project involving grades 1-14 in twenty schools was undertaken to continue and expand the development and implementation of new and proven career education and guidance concepts, to demonstrate the process used in developing and implementing these concepts, and to provide a visible and transportable model of career…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…

Designed as a component of a pilot career exploration project at Vale Middle School, Vale, Oregon, this guide is directed toward helping any school implement the concept of career education. The guide is divided into three sections. Section 1 offers ideas that give support to the background and justification for the concept of career education.…