Project Exploration developed and pilot-tested a process for the career development of 21 learning-disabled (LD) women on the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas. The project focused on enlightened self-awareness as well as the development of essential academic and behavioral skills. The project helped the LD women to gain knowledge…

Unlike ordinary computer simulations that imitate the conditions of a real-life situation and allow several variables to be input, job simulations program a microcomputer to simulate the functions of one or more pieces of business or office equipment and to provide hands-on, interactive instruction to students on how to use that equipment. Good…

The 61 cooperative vocational centers in Minnesota are joint efforts of 2 or more neighboring school districts to provide secondary vocational education and to strengthen, extend and expand existing vocational programs. Begun as pilot projects in 1968, the centers focus on introducing students to a variety of occupations, providing career…

Based on the assumption that moving out of education and into new careers requires the use of specific concepts, methods, and skills, the problems of educational careers and basic concepts of career management are analyzed, and proven methods for finding new jobs are outlined. The approach is adapted from the Ferrini and Parker career development…

The University of Cincinnati Alumni Association's 1980 annual report on Minority Resource Day is presented. The objectives of the event are to increase minority participation in the services offered by the Career Resource Center. Minority Resource Day is designed to provide minority students, alumni, and community members interested in various…

During the 1977-78 school year, students from four Utah high schools participated in the evaluation of an experience-based career education (EBCE) project. The 228 students (115 girls and 113 boys) enrolled in EBCE were designated the experimental group and a randomly selected English class from each high school was treated as the control group.…

The Career Decision-Making Program (CDM) for secondary school students consists of approximately fifty individual products which can be used as a semester course, a six-to-eight-week exploratory course, independent units, or outside of the CDM program in other career guidance activities. The CDM program has two components: (1) the Exploring Career…

The major purpose of this project was to develop a computerized vocational counseling program consisting of an interactive computer package and a filmstrip series for use by unemployed/underemployed adults, handicapped persons, and prison inmates. Specific project objectives were to (1) determine clients' vocational counseling needs, (2) develop…

This document contains the final report of a demonstration project in career development for grades K-10 in Cincinnati Public Schools. The first section consists of tables describing activities in terms of level of activity, participants, objectives addressed, evaluation, and outcomes of the objectives. Part 1 of the second section, Evaluation…

Instructional strategies, methods, and techniques of the National Institute of Education's Experience-Based Career Education Program (EBCE) can be successfully integrated into the existing high school program, as demonstrated by a project in the Bellevue, Washington, public schools. The two-and-one-half year project incorporated a career cluster…

Inability to relate classroom experiences to the real world in the community was greatly impeding the learning process for some students. Other students were eager to gain career experiences in the community, yet were unable to do so because of an inflexible school schedule. In an effort to offer these students more relevant learning experiences,…

A Career Orientation Program (COP) which provides exploratory work experience as well as classroom career instruction is described. The program is part of the High School in the Community (HSC), New Haven, Connecticut, an alternative school designed to provide a choice of learning environments within the public school system. Four components…

The methods used during 1975-76 in the career education program in Norwalk (Connecticut) were designed for each grade level--elementary, middle school, and high school. (The program began with a Federally funded pilot program in the spring of 1972 in three schools and has expanded, over a four and one-half year period, to a total program in all 25…

The National School-to-Work Office in collaboration with the National Association for Gifted Children, the Council for Exceptional Children, the Association for the Gifted, and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted have identified 11 gifted education/school-to-work (GT/STW) models that are either best practices or unique…

A summer health careers program in rural North Carolina educates and recruits high school students into health professions. Collaboration between an Area Health Education Center, a local hospital, and schools makes the program successful. A week of classroom presentations is followed by up to 6 weeks of job shadowing. Seventy percent of the 160…