This learning activity package is designed to help learners select a trade in which to apprentice, to think about personal factors and to understand typical job requirements and situations. The package offers information about over 200 occupations. After completing the package, learners should have a realistic idea about how well prepared they are…

This paper gives an overview of career development theory. It examines the scope and sequence of educational activities provided in the authors'"A Guide to Developing Career Education Across the Curriculum," which explains the "Iowa Model" of career education; and it presents practical suggestions to implement career activities…

This instructor's manual accompanies the 46 modules in Health Occupations Education II, the second course of a two-year course of study. Contents include a list of the modules and the performance skills covered in each module, a listing of tools and supplies required for learning activities in the modules cited by module title, an instructional…

Designed for use with special education students served by special education instructional programs, this guide is intended to help educators implement appropriate career education programing. Moderate to mildly handicapped students are the target population. The guide is based on the objectives that need to be monitored by teachers to assure that…

Designed to teach migrant students about the world of work and how academic subjects relate to jobs and careers, this illustrated CHOICE (Challenging Options in Career Education) Occupational Resources text provides career and job information and basic job market entry skills information for junior and senior high school students written at a…

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…

This instructional kit consists of an instructor's guidebook, six user workbooks, and five magnetic tape cassettes dealing with skills for obtaining jobs. Topics discussed in the instructor's guidebook include the development of the kit, its contents, using the kit in the classroom, individual use of the kit, instructor preparation, and additional…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on choosing an occupation in the Employability Skills Series. (The student booklet is available separately as CE 031 155.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student…

This booklet of Worksheets for the Career Alert Planning (CAP) program is one of the 14 components (see note) of a set of individualized materials designed to help participants find out about themselves and about the kind of work for which they are suited. In this program, participants become acquainted with occupations that are representative of…

"Exploring Careers" is a career education resource program, published 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…

The career education materials and concepts in this collection were developed or adapted from other sources by participants in a districtwide junior high career education project piloted in Kansas City, Missouri. Early portions define career education and suggest roles and functions for the collaborative efforts of all who are involved in the…

The second of a three-part series developed to show how the junior high school curriculum can be enhanced by adding real-life career oriented processes, the document provides further career exploration experiences for the eighth grade student. Building on the home model utilized in the seventh grade element of the series, the booklet treats the…

The document is a collection of materials related to the development of a State career education continuum for Ohio, specifically the development of resources for offering vicarious, simulated, or hands-on career exploration experiences to ninth and tenth graders within a unified theoretical framework. Introduced by general discussions of…

The publication, designed especially for counselors, presents activities addressed to a facilitator and intended to assist students in reaching career development outcomes. The first of seven sections, a users' guide, offers suggestions for implementing activities, explains the organization of the document, and provides a participant comment…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…