This guide explains the basic concepts in cooperative education and describes the essential characteristics of effective program development and operation. The guide is the final report of a three-phase institute which developed, implemented, and evaluated plans for new directions in cooperative education. As a result of this investigation, the…

Intended to assist staff members at vocational-technical schools in developing an internship program, this guide includes explanations of the Internship Project at Petit Jean Vocational Technical School (Arkansas) and sample forms. Prefaced materials include a time line for implementation of internship, and diagrams of an integrated…

Diversified Occupations was initiated as an approved statewide program in Washington in 1970. It is a cooperative effort between the school and the local business community, enabling students to acquire, refine and utilize job skills in actual paid employment with the help of an instructor who is a highly skilled professional in that occupation.…

Prepared to assist distributive education personnel in program development and evaluation, this bulletin identifies, compares, and analyzes 100 teaching beliefs of secondary teacher-coordinators. It also identifies those classroom teaching techniques found to be effective for cooperative and project-plan programs. Extracted, for the most part,…

Representatives from education, business, industry, labor, and government met in a 3-phase Cooperative Education Workshop to establish common agreement on criteria and improvement of cooperative vocational education in community colleges of the state. With emphasis given to feasibility studies, training agreements, legal implications, and…

Based on a review of related literature, this document is designed to serve state supervisors and teacher educators interested in reviewing the key concepts relative to cooperative vocational education. The compact nature of the review and its organization into guidelines format should provide a ready reference for the practitioner seeking to…

Designed as an administrative guide for Industrial Cooperative Training (ICT) Coordinators, this handbook was assembled to provide much of the information needed to operate a successful program. The guide includes the policies of the Trade and Industrial Education Service, curriculum outlines, duties and responsibilities of the coordinator and…

Two types of educational programs were designed to reach the potential dropout of 14-15 years of age and the early school leaver. The first program, known as the Work Experience and Career Exploration Program (WECEP), was developed to expose potential dropouts to the world of work and to impress upon them the importance of a high school education.…

This handbook outlines an instructor-coordinator information system that is intended to assist cooperative vocational education (CVE) instructors in providing information on the outcomes of their local programs and examining other CVE programs in order to identify ways of strengthening local programs. The program information model involves four…

The manual is intended to assist school administrators and teacher coordinators in establishing and maintaining programs of industrial cooperative education, that is, programs of vocational education designed to provide high school youth opportunities to receive on-the-job training in an occupation which is trade and industrial in nature, of his…

This study was conducted to lend insight to possible methods of recruiting and preparing distributive education teacher-coordinators, a problem which has concerned state supervisors and teacher-coordinators for several decades. The first section of the inquiry form solicited information on the individual completing the form and the institution…

Two questionnaires were mailed to 40 students enrolled in the Cooperative Education Program at Mississippi County Community College to determine their perceptions of their work experience and of the Co-op Program. One survey form asked students about difficulties on the job, adequacy of information about their duties, completeness of instructions,…

Primarily intended to serve as a reference for in-service teacher coordinators, this document provides an overview of key points regarding the development and operation of cooperative vocational education programs. Written from the perspective of the teacher-coordinator, the discussion centers around the broad topics of planning, coordinating, and…

THE IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS OF 17 NEW MEXICO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TEACHERS FOR DEVELOPING OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE PROGRAMS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION ARE PRESENTED. WORKING AS SIX COMMITTEES, THE GROUP PRODUCED REPORTS ON (1) IMPORTANCE OF OCCUPATIONAL WORK-EXPERIENCE, (2) COOPERATIVE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, (3) TYPES OF…

This handbook is a complete guide for developing and administering cooperative vocational education programs in Missouri. The 11 sections of the handbook provide information in the following areas: (1) overview of the cooperative education program; (2) role of the teacher-coordinator; (3) program development; (4) the instructional program; (5)…