The authors provide guidelines for the development and implementation of role-play simulations used for employee selection and promotion. Exercises are presented to illustrate the development of practical content-valid procedures. Suggestions on developing relevant ideas, working with role players, facilitating raters, and minimizing candidate…

This teaching module is part of a set of materials designed to provide educators with activities infusing career education concepts into existing curriculum for the K-6 grade level. Building on the foundation laid in the teaching module dealing with transactional strategies in interpersonal relationships on the K-3 grade level, this module focuses…

The teaching module is organized to provide students on the K-3 grade level with knowledge, skill, and understanding of self. This module, divided into four learning sequences, helps students to identify and understand feelings and responses to situations. The eight activities in learning sequence 1 identify basic feelings through verbal and…

This guide describes a game-plan for a communication lab the goal of which is for group members to have an opportunity to learn and practice communication skills in a protected environment. The groups are not therapy groups although it is anticipated that the experience will be therapeutic. The guide presents: (1) a rationale for the game plan…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for grade four. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists to help teachers instill responsibility and self-confidence in children. The activity guide presents topics and directions for 180 sequential…

The goal of this inservice guide for teaching consumer education at the secondary and adult level is to help consumers become more assertive when buying goods and services. A major section in the guide defines assertiveness. The four basic components of assertive behavior are the ability to express emotions openly, the capacity to exercise one's…

This inservice manual provides guidelines to help elementary, secondary, and adult education teachers select, use, and design simulation experiences for consumer education. Four example simulations provide students with opportunities to develop decision-making skills as consumers. Simulations may be used as an introductory, developmental, or…