Identifies effective motivational techniques for cooperative education coordinators to share with supervisors and provides suggestions for supervisors to follow to help make a student's cooperative experience productive. (JOW)

Discusses a task analysis survey of cooperative education coordinators in Michigan. Indicates that the majority were teacher-coordinators, i.e., responsible for school-related vocational instruction as well as coordination of students' work experience. Lists coordinator tasks and duties. (Available from W. C. Publications Inc., P.O. Box 1578,…

Cooperative education coordinators should market their work experience programs to college-bound students. The combination of career-specific work experience and appropriate course work can expose college-bound students to career options, prepare them for higher education, and give them job skills. (SK)

This manual presents concepts, tools, and techniques that are useful in the management of cooperative education programs at the state department of education, school district, and secondary school levels. Section I is a general discussion of the management role in cooperative education. In section II focus is on the nature of the internal and…

This study identified 100 performance tasks within 10 functional categories for distributive education teacher-coordinators who use the Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium individualized instruction system. The tasks provide an empirically based description of the learning manager's role. (SK)

Stating that no vocational education program demands greater commitment from teachers than the work experience program, the author describes from personal experience with the Ohio Occupational Work Experience program the many roles of the teacher-coordinator in keeping the potential dropout in school and employed. (MF)

A cooperative office education program at Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, increased its enrollment and work placement of students with the coordinator's treating the program as a year-round process, which is illustrated in her August-through-July schedule of monthly tasks. (MF)

Seventy-five twelfth-grade marketing education students, their teacher-coordinators, and their training sponsors rated the affective work competencies of students on the job. The data revealed that the students ranked themselves higher than either adult group. (JOW)

Prepared by home economics instructional materials center staff, this handbook is for use by home economics cooperative education teacher-coordinators in planning vocational home economics gainful employment programs and courses on the high school level. Contents include: (1) general information on the program, (2) approved occupations for the…

To improve cooperative programs by selecting qualified students, Manchester High School in Chesterfield County, Virginia, uses teamwork in the form of a screening committee consisting of the principal, assistant principals, program coordinators, and guidance counselors to review student applications, examine student records, and interview the…

This brochure describes a model for a capstone cooperative education component for occupational programs in the Eastern Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) shared-time area vocational-technical school. The particular program model is built upon the traditionally accepted strengths and concepts of cooperative education, but it applies them with a…

A job analysis of vocational cooperative teacher-coordinators in secondary schools in Texas was performed. Five questions were investigated: (1) What tasks were performed and what relative percent of time was spent doing these tasks?; (2) When did coordinators learn to do the tasks they do and when did they feel these tasks should have been…

The detailed guide's purpose is to assist educators and community leaders in designing and implementing educational programs to serve student and community needs, and to identify the goals and elements of cooperative vocational education. One chapter describes the necessary characteristics of the teacher-coordinator in such programs, and the…

The authors describe the Missouri Training Plan Guide used by teacher-coordinators in negotiating with employers to develop a plan for cooperative distributive education students' school and work experiences. Students may participate in completing the plan, which is also used for evaluation. (MF)

Nontechnical employment competencies needed by secondary students were identified and then tested with employers, teacher-coordinators, and school counselors. Their perceptions of the relative importance of each competency and discrepancies in those perceptions illustrate the need for cooperation between the school and the business community. (SK)