The importance of active student involvement is stressed in this discussion of a competency-based approach to career exploration. Five steps used in developing a one-semester, eighth-grade business exploration course are presented and described. Methods of teaching such a unit and advantages to this approach are discussed. (CT)

The Free Enterprise Career Education project represents an attempt to help elementary students learn about our economic system and about various jobs involved in the operation of the system. Students see how to apply skills learned in academic classes to practical situations and learn job skills. (Author/JAC)

Three career counseling programs at Wesleyan University are described: career counseling network, career education workshops, and on-campus career counseling workshops. Five suggestions: establish a career education committee for alumni, involve other departments, have work for alumni volunteers, include students, keep reviewing career programs.…

An Association of American Colleges program to promote graduate student exploration of and commitment to college teaching is described. In it, liberal arts colleges are paired with graduate institutions so students have experiences making them aware of the variety of campus cultures and range of faculty responsibilities. (MSE)

Reviews a multimedia curriculum called "What's Up in Technology?" that was developed by the educational television channel Thirteen/WNET to introduce secondary school students to high-technology careers. Describes the curriculum materials, including a video, the teacher's guide, and the Web companion piece. (Author/LRW)

Describes the tuition-free Science Technology Engineering Preview Summer Camp that directs young girls in grades 6, 9, and 10 toward careers in science and engineering. (JOW)

In Texas, family and consumer sciences (FCS) teachers provide high school students who are interested in teaching or a related career an opportunity to investigate it further through an internship entitled "Ready, Set, Teach". Students who apply must have been enrolled in a child development, parenting, or individual and family life…

Childhood marks the dawn of human development. To organize, integrate, and advance knowledge about vocational development during this age period from a life-span perspective, we conducted a comprehensive review of the empirical vocational development literature that addresses early-to-late childhood. The review considers career exploration, career…

This manual encourages teachers, business people, and administrators to create innovative local school/business programs by listing and describing American programs that have been proven successful. A directory describing the role of businesses in education is included. Additional comments and program descriptions are divided into three…

Career education is probably best described as a group of concepts and processes, including career awareness, career exploration, infusion of career-oriented material with traditional educational resources, hands-on involvement, and participation in education by people normally employed in the world of work. Vocational education is simply one…

CALIS is an interactive computer-based simulation developed to assess career decisions and to present decisional alternatives to the players in career and life path choices, assessing the relative consequences associated with these choices. The CALIS game-simulation places the player in the social-psychological situation of an individual…

The proposed plan for providing teacher training to implement the occupational clusters approach to career orientation in Virginia schools consists of four phases. Phase I is a two- or three-day regional workshop for teachers about to implement the program. During the two weeks of phase II teachers begin the program in their school classrooms,…

Goals of a project to develop a career-oriented curriculum for the Texas School for the Deaf from 1972 to 1975 included the delivery of (1) career awareness, exploration, and preparation experiences, (2) language development activities, (3) avocational-recreational experiences, (4) consumer activities, (5) problem-solving experiences, (6)…

The study observed 30 secondary vocational educators to gather data on the instructional environments of vocational education programs relevant to learning-disabled students. Data were collected on curricular content, curricular format, student behavior, teacher behavior, and teacher focus. Differences between exploratory and preparatory programs…

Describes a science career workshop for eighth and ninth grade students to encourage enrollment in high school sciences. Sessions included scientists, engineers, and health care workers demonstrating laboratory activities which illustrate skills or concepts from the person's job. Guidelines are shared for the activity sessions and workshop…