This prevocational exploration curriculum is designed to provide occupational information and hands-on experiences pertaining to fine arts and humanities occupations to ninth and tenth grade students. The curriculum consists of 45 learning pacs, 43 of which each cover one job title. Information for each job title in a learning pac is provided in…

The language arts curriculum activities presented in this guide were developed as one component of a total career education demonstration project for Appalachian Maryland, and are intended for use as supplements to the total middle or junior high school curriculum. Introductory material lists career education concepts and outlines career and…

"Exploring Careers" is a career education resource program, presented in fifteen separate booklets, for junior high school-age students. It provides information about the world of work and offers its readers a way of learning about themselves and relating that information to career choices. The publications aim to build career awareness by means…

The basis for the assessment process in this project is that structured situations within curriculum areas will yield vocational information (skill and behavioral) that has a direct and indirect relationship to occupational areas in the world of work. Thus, with the assistance of school assessment teams, seven situations were identified and…

The Industrial Arts Career Exploration (IACE) Program in Utah was evaluated for the year 1978-79 in order to describe the status of the programs, numbers, organizational patterns, and participants. This information was collected by visiting the schools and using an information form; additional evaluation was derived by comparing Career Education…

The document consists of four sections: a sample directory, a Pupils Potentials Lab (PPL) staff packet, PPL student packet, and a personal inventory entitled "Who Am I?" The directory lists 119 resource teachers available to Hosterman Junior High School students and correlates their names to a job index and interest index. The objective of the PPL…

The Alpine School District in American Fork, Utah is administering a career education program designed to provide positive experiences (real and simulated) to demonstrate to students that career choices are contributing factors to one's life style (economic, recreational, and social). The three week career education mini-course for eighth grade…

The bulletin gives Texas school personnel detailed suggestions for developing career exploration and investigation in middle schools. Prepared by a developmental committee composed of representatives of local school districts, regional education service centers, and career education research projects, it was designed to assist classroom teachers…

A California Western School of Law program to reach high-risk 11- to 14-year-old girls in an inner-city school is described. The program consisted of 4 20-minute after-school sessions and brought together law students, faculty, and junior high students. The sessions provide practical information about aspects of the law and planning for law…

This serial issue contains five articles relating to career exploration for middle school youth. The first article makes up most of the publication. It explains the concept of Future Options Education, basic tenets of which are the following: (1) career and college preparatory interventions need to be age and stage appropriate; (2) effective…

This guide describes the exploratory vocational wheel for middle schools. The wheel, developed by the Florida Department of Education, is a scheduling strategy that allows middle school students to experience selected learning objectives from a variety of middle and junior high school exploratory vocational courses. Course content is generated…

This guide contains standards designed to encourage local educational agencies to redesign consumer home economics programs to meet the present and future needs of students and adults in the 1980s and 1990s. A procedure is suggested for using them in redesign or development of new and innovative articulated programs. The standards include nine…

This curriculum guide is the first part of a two-part volume developed to assist those who are engaged in implementing prevocational exploration programs concerned with business and office occupations. It consists of experiential learning pacs that sample a variety of competencies performed by various workers employed in the business and office…

Developed to assist grade 7-10 teachers in the Cleveland Public Schools in starting a career education program in conjunction with their specific subject areas, this guidebook contains fifty-two lesson plans. Each lesson plan lists objectives, activities, materials, vocabulary, and related occupations. Each lesson is categorized as being…

Designed to enable students to develop knowledge of personal strengths and weaknesses and to be able to understand the relationship of these characteristics to educational and vocational choices, this guide presents an introductory program on vocations using a thematic interdisciplinary approach to career awareness. It is suggested that the…