The Boise, Idaho career exploration project (grades 1-6) involves curriculum development, guidance/counseling, and research. Guidance and career units were primarily written by a curriculum writer and the project director; teacher involvement was mainly through study of the written materials. The guidance/counseling component is geared to the…

New Hampshire Supervisory School Union 58--Experimental Schools project (Groveton, New Hampshire) has developed a rural schools oriented career education program for grades K-12, which incorporates the total community. The program focuses on three major themes: (1) Self Awareness--Who Am I? (kindergarten and grade 1), (2) Awareness of Community…

The report describes the Mission Possible program, an alternative career exploration program for secondary school students in Cass County, North Dakota. The program is a voluntary, flexible one in which students learn about careers at "career sites" in business and industrial establishments according to the following alternatives:…

The Career Exploratory Program management system is designed to assist the local school teacher/coordinator in the organization and management of the program. The system defines and describes the accountability line from teacher-coordinator, through the Career Planning and Placement Center teacher/coordinator and the local school principal to the…

A program in which first-year pharmacy students "shadowed" fourth-year students in clerkships for a day found the shadowing experienced did not significantly improve students' ability to master course objectives, but the introduction of younger students to practice areas of pharmacy was seen as very beneficial. (Author/MSE)

The Minority High School Student Research Apprentice Program in Richmond, Virginia, aspires to stimulate among minority high school students an interest in pursuing careers in biomedical research and the health professions. Students are paid hourly wages commensurate with what they could earn at summer jobs. Students work with faculty mentors in…

A project conducted by Tarboro City Schools (North Carolina) involved the development of an individualized curriculum, suitable for students in grades 7, 8, and 9. Emphasis for the project was on using the most effective components of different approaches from across the State to meet the State's goals for occupational exploration, while providing…

This publication describes, in three sections, a high school Communication Arts Curriculum (CAC) program designed to further students' communication skills as they participate in student-centered learning activities in the fine arts, the practical arts, and the performing arts. "Program Operation" includes a course outline and inventories for…

The Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) experience-based career education (EBCE) program was developed as an alternative program focusing on career exploration with the ultimate goal of career decusion making. Using two main curriculum documents ("Student Program Guide" and "Student Career Guide"), the program staff worked with each…

IPAR, whose name originally stemmed from its official name--Institute for Public Affairs Research, Inc.--is described as a nonprofit organization operating in Portland, Oregon, and designed to bring students and their teachers into closer contact with all aspects of the working world by (1) recruiting community resources as speakers in classroom…

This directory of Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) programs is designed (1) to facilitate communication among EBCE practitioners and potential adaptors by providing programmatic and demographic data about the programs implemented in schools across the country and (2) to serve the National EBCE Association as an initial listing of its…

In order to meet the educational needs of the hard-core unemployed, an instructional program known as the "Alternative Career Center" was designed at Iowa Lakes Community College to prepare those identified by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act for employment. After reviewing the literature on educational programs for the…

The interim report describes the progress of the first year of a three-year exemplary project in career education beginning in 1973 and conducted by the Admiral Peary Area Vocational Technical School in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. The purpose of the project was to develop a "reality bound" total K-14 educational continuum. The model…

The publication is a summary of the Federally sponsored programs for disadvantaged and handicapped persons that have been administered by the Special Needs Section of the Iowa State Department of Public Instruction during fiscal years 1972, 1973, and 1974. It is the responsibility of the Special Needs Section to plan, implement, and evaluate…

This interim report was prepared by a third party evaluation team in order to relate component objectives to: (1) input resources and conditions, (2) process treatment and transactions, and (3) output products and performance. Project activities were intended to: (1) Develop teachers in five metropolitan area elementary schools to help youngsters…