This paper reports on a project which is designed to increase the participation of high school students in accounting work experience placements. The focus of the paper is on an Australian-based project which overcomes the identified barriers to offering high school accounting work experience placements with a resultant increase in the number and…

"Career Interests and Education Choices: It's My Plan!" will help students discover their interests and abilities. By learning about themselves, "It's My Plan!" will help students match their characteristics to career options and postsecondary education choices. "It's My Plan!" has four lessons: (1) Getting to Know Yourself; (2) Determine a Career…

We developed an interactive laboratory that allows students to identify and grade tissue samples from human breast biopsies, using techniques similar to those used by actual pathologists. This unique lab develops a practical and intellectual understanding of basic tissue structures that make up living systems, utilizing technology to bring…

Discusses the importance of early interest in science and how effective it is on career choice in adult stages of life. Recommends starting mathematics and science activities in preschool and kindergarten. Describes how to create a career-oriented learning center in the classroom with examples of kitchen chemistry, nutrition/botany, zoology,…

Innovative ideas for accounting education include having students study accounting across historical periods, using businesses for student research, exploring nontraditional accounting careers, and collaborating with professional associations. (SK)

Presents kinds of data that can be used in exploring careers. Focuses on child care occupations and includes information such as educational requirements, hours and earnings, job satisfaction, and costs of the program. (JOW)

Describes a project in which students write research papers about a chosen career. Explains that the project is successful because the students view it as a practical exercise. (FL)

Presents a mathematics activity that teaches binary code. (YDS)

Discusses the importance and provides a method of informing biology college students of their career choices after graduation. Includes a list of some of the education requirements and salary ranges of health-related careers. (ZWH)

Explains geoscience as a career choice and identifies it as an excellent tool for teaching mathematics and science. (YDS)

Presents values clarification exercises for college music education students. For example, students evaluate their personal and professional traits in terms of their career ambitions. They rank their life priorities, professional ambitions, and current activities. They also identify desirable teaching role models and consider examples of music…

Describes an activity that looks at employment opportunities available in the fields of science, engineering, and technology. Includes expected outcomes, a student quiz, and descriptions of several occupations. (JOW)

Designed for use at the senior high school level, this career decision making mini course is based on Peter Blau's Model of Occuational Choice. The course has been pilot-tested with college bound and non-college bound students. It may be offered as an elective unit for one-half to one full semester in one to three class periods per week or it may…

One of a series of instructional packets to aid schools in reducing sex stereotyping, this guide for teachers (junior high and above) is designed to make students aware of the role interest tests can play in the process of choosing an occupation to prepare for. Focus is on interpreting test results in such a way that past societal expectations are…

This cluster guide, which is designed to show teachers what specific knowledge and skills qualify high school students for entry-level employment (or postsecondary training) in marketing occupations, is organized into three sections: (1) cluster organization and implementation, (2) instructional emphasis areas, and (3) assessment. The first…