Describes a guidance co-op program which uses group counseling and team teaching methods. Describes the benefits of this approach and of the contact with employers. Notes the draw back of time taken away from other counseling duties. (ABB)

Outlines a model for giving proper credit to co-op students for their on the job hours. Profiles the business English course as an example of incorporating students' work skills into their academic training. (ABB)

Describes Ontario's secondary school cooperative education program, advocating the community's involvement in preparing students for entry into the working world. (ABB)

Characterizes 90 percent of the native students in Canada's Northwest Territory as dropouts. Offers the Community Occupational Program as an alternative to secondary school graduation. Describes program goals and benefits. (ABB)

Outlines the recommendations made by the Co-operative Career Work Education Association of Canada for encouraging the cooperation of business and industry in secondary school cooperative education programs. Details the need for such programs and the benefits to both student and community from such a program. (ABB)

Describes the Store Front School project, a program of cooperative education aimed at rekindling students' interest in school and helping them earn their diplomas. The school conducts classes in an office in a shopping mall where the students work. (ABB)

Describes a child care co-op in which careers in the fields of early childhood education, child studies, teaching or pediatrics are investigated. The program also gives students the opportunity to practice parenting skills in a controlled setting. (Author/ABB)

Looked at co-op and non co-op students in a semestered school to examine the effect of a compressed program on development of students' personal, career and life skills. Findings suggest that co-op students develop a feeling of self-worth and learn skills and attitudes that "will lead to satisfaction and productivity in the world of…

Discusses the need for high school co-operative education courses to give students chances to make sense of work in ways that will help them do their best in their future jobs. Involves effective use of in-school time to enable students to identify particular questions about working and about themselves as workers. (Author/ABB)

Grade 12 students participated in a 1-semester cooperative education program and were monitored using the Personal Skills Map by Nelson & Law. Results indicate greater improvement in scores for the scales related to Interpersonal skills than for those in the areas of Career and Life-effectiveness skills. (LKS)