This curriculum guide is designed to help students develop career decisionmaking skills which they may use throughout their lives and examine and explore hospitality and recreation occupations. Nine units are included, with each consisting of a teacher's guide and student materials. The teacher's guide includes an overview, objectives, rationale,…

This document contains separate core curricula for Distributive Education and Diversified Cooperative Training programs designed to aid the teacher in using available competency-based instructional materials. Each core curriculum is composed of four parts: marketing, economics, career exploration, and employability skills. Marketing, the largest…

This program provides supervised vocational personnel with work experience opportunities. The primary function and purpose of this program is the development and/or refinement of vocational competencies in occupational careers. In the introduction, the first of seventeen sections, course options and requirements are outlined. Criteria for the…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of four terminal objectives for a fundamentals of child care occupations course. The materials were designed to prepare students for entry level employment in jobs involving the care and guidance of children. Major concepts include growth,…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are presented for each of five terminal objectives for a 12- to 18-week course designed to provide students in grades eight or nine with opportunities for exploring a broad range of child care, guidance, and service occupations. Major concepts include characteristics…

Part of a manufacturing cluster series which addresses itself to career awareness, orientation, exploration, and preparation, this guide and its accompanying student manual were written as a direct followup of the instructor's guide and student manual titled "Exploring Manufacturing Occupations." Four major sections are included. The first section…

The third of a three-volume set, this career education instructional manual for grades 7-12 was developed primarily by teachers. The broad goals of the twenty-five teaching units presented are to provide each student with an awareness of the various career fields in the world of work and to instill in each individual the worthiness of work. Based…

This curriculum guide provides competencies and tasks for the position of clinical laboratory helper; it serves as both a career exploration experience and/or entry-level employment training. A list of 25 validated competencies and tasks covers careers from entry level to those that must be mastered to earn an associate degree in clinical…

This competency-based prevocational exploration curriculum in agribusiness and natural resources is divided into the following eight areas: agricultural business (sales); animal science (health and grooming); horticulture (grafting and budding); agricultural products (grading eggs); plant science (germination); soil science (soil acidity and…

The major focus of this guide and its accompanying student manual (CE 010 397) is to help the student understand the manufacturing enterprise. (The guide and student manual are part of a manufacturing cluster series which addresses itself to career awareness, orientation, exploration, and preparation.) Seven sections are included. An overview of…

The manual provides a guide to the pre-vocational curriculum for older adolescents and young adults with mental illness offered at Thresholds, a psychiatric rehabilitation center in Chicago. Noted is the common presence of additional handicaps in this population, such as poor reading ability. A psychoeducational clinical teaching approach is…

This publication is one of a series designed to inform and assist those responsible for foreign language instruction, including teachers, administrators, supervisors, and those engaged in teacher education. The complete series serves as a curriculum guide. The format of the series is such that it can be revised so as to keep materials current.…

This curriculum guide provides examples of activities a teacher at the intermediate level can use for any phase of career education being studied. Activities are listed under each of the eight elements of career education: (1) Self Awareness, (2) Educational Awareness, (3) Career Awareness, (4) Economic Awareness, (5) Decision Making, (6)…

This curriculum guide provides examples of activities a teacher at the primary level can use for any phase of career education being studied. Activities are listed under each of the eight elements of career education: (1) Self Awareness, (2) Educational Awareness, (3) Career Awareness, (4) Economic Awareness, (5) Decision Making, (6) Beginning…

Intended for use by educators, counselors, and youth workers, this curriculum guide contains activities and resources for a nine-unit course to help young and adult women explore issues related to women and work and nontraditional employment. The course may be taught in a semester, over a full school year, or as a supplement to other inschool…