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Mann, Anthony; Rehill, Jordan; Kashefpakdel, Elnaz T. – Education Endowment Foundation, 2018
This study, commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), is designed to review current evidence on the most effective ways in which employers can support schools to improve pupil educational and economic outcomes. It is a study in three parts. It aims, first, to conceptualise employer engagement in education as a strategic tool,…
Descriptors: Employers, School Business Relationship, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, 2019
Transition planning officially begins between the ages of 14 and 16 for most students with an IEP. However, the process is lifelong. Job Exploration Counseling, or Career counseling/guidance includes a wide variety of activities which help students explore career options and opportunities available. Job exploring options are intended to foster…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Career Guidance
Johnson, Philomena M. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
The key to building successful strategies as a higher education practitioner promoting 21st century green economy career awareness for women attending urban universities, demands advocating for benefits, and subverting potential barriers, to positively influence career choices. Women's career investment and returns increase when proper strategies…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Quality of Life
Neumark, David – Public Policy Institute of California, 2004
This report uses national data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) to evaluate the effectiveness of the types of school-to-career (STC) programs that were encouraged and supported in California by the grants received by the state from the federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (STWOA). In particular, the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, College Attendance, Tech Prep, Job Shadowing
Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA. – 1996
"Job shadows" offer young people a chance to investigate the world of work by spending time with adults in the community and experiencing the culture of the workplace. A job shadow gives a student a meaningful introduction to the world of work and provides a context for understanding the connection between school and careers. This guidebook was…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Kucinkas, Gene; Noyce, Gary – 1994
Video Job Shadows encourages students to develop questions about a job and offers them the chance to videotape a business person answering those questions about his or her job. The program can be an effective method of teaching high school students about the world of work and the specific requirements and responsibilities of some jobs in their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Awareness, Career Planning, Careers
Conrady, Sue R. – 1998
This document consists of a brief report and a resource manual developed by a project designed to help 34 students registered in a General Educational Development (GED) program to develop self- and career-awareness through computer-assisted instruction. According to the report, all 34 students used the computer for self- and career-awareness. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Career Awareness
Woal, S. Theodore; DuVall, Patricia S. – 1995
This document consists of two brief articles on career education in elementary school. The first article, "Career Education--The Early Years" by S. Theodore Woal, suggests that elementary school is the time to begin to infuse career education concepts and to correlate and integrate career guidance in the school curriculum. Three activities are…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
Thompson, Cecelia; Thompson, Dale – 1986
The Educators-in-Industry project described in this document is sponsored by the General Electric Foundation to offer experience in the business and industrial world to educators. In Hawaii, where General Electric has no factory facilities, other businesses provide job shadowing sites for administrators, counselors, and K-12 teachers. Over 100…
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration
Industrial Education, 1985
Describes the Clinton (MA) secondary school program in plastics technology, which involves (1) mostly 10th graders in a combination classroom-hands-on-activities laboratory program, and (2) 11th and 12th graders in laboratory research/ shadowing/job performance program. Also describes actual laboratory projects, program graduate job placement, and…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Classroom Environment, Grade 10, Grade 11
Blanford, Elizabeth A. – 1977
This paper describes the development of a high school career program related to the Shadowing Experiences provided for counselors by General Electric. Nine Mini-Career Days, related to the different curriculum areas, provided students with at least four days of shadow sessions. Students attended the Career Days from their four morning class…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Lyle, Molly – 2000
This manual describes 100 ways to make a commitment to transition via Individual Transition Goals for students with disabilities. The goals cover five basic transition areas: (1) communication and problem solving; (2) daily living; (3) securing and keeping a job; (4) career awareness; and (5) self-determination. To help meet those objectives, 100…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Exploration, Career Planning, Daily Living Skills
Watson, Marilyn Parrish – 1980
Operation Shadow provides materials for a career education program which gives students ages 11-13 an opportunity to relate school subjects to the world of work. Students spend one month in classroom activities, including study of characteristics of self and others and how these characteristics and interests affect one's choice of a life career.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Career Choice
O'Shea, Dan – 2001
Based on interviews and document analysis, an evaluation of Year 3 of the Capital Area Education and Careers Partnership (CAECP) assessed its initiatives to help youth and young adults advance their educational and workplace achievements in pursuit of satisfying, productive careers. CAECP improved school-based learning activity objectives by…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
O'Shea, Dan – 2002
Based on interviews and document analysis, an evaluation of Year 4 of the Capital Area Education and Careers Partnership (CAECP) assessed its initiatives to help youth and young adults advance their educational and workplace achievements in pursuit of satisfying, productive careers. CAECP improved school-based learning activity objectives by…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Career Awareness, Career Development
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