This module is intended to help guidance personnel in a variety of educational and agency settings increase their skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating community involvement and public relations activities as a part of an overall career guidance program. The module is one of a series of competency-based guidance program training…

This book is written for parents, teachers, and counselors who have both a desire and a commitment to help children who experience a death. The first chapter provides an introduction and discusses when death education should occur. The second chapter emphasizes the importance of creating a caring relationship with children when death is…

This handbook is designed to teach communities how to develop an effective juvenile firesetter intervention program. The six chapters of this handbook can be viewed as the six building blocks essential to construct a successful program. The cornerstone of the blueprint is understanding the personality profiles of juvenile firesetters and their…

Providing descriptions of program goals and procedures as well as sample materials, this document describes a counseling services program development model implemented at California's Rancho Santiago Community College (RSCC). Sections 1 and 2 describe the development of the program by RSCC's Counseling Department and provide a list of counselors.…

Designed to provide resources and guidance for the design and implementation of tech prep programs at the local level, this document provides a handbook of strategies and guidelines developed by tech prep practitioners across the nation and a catalog of materials available at the South Central Kansas Tech Prep Consortium (SCKTPC) library.…

This module, one in a series of 127 performance-based teacher education (PBTE) learning packages, focuses on specific professional competencies of vocational teachers. The modules are suitable for the preparation of teachers and other occupational trainers in all occupational areas. This module on the promotion of vocational programs for…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

Each semester in the 136 state-supported community colleges in California, counselors are involved in developing, maintaining, and/or revising hundreds of programs that may or may not result in helping students move efficiently through the system. Developed as a resource for administrators and counselors charged with improving community college…

This career activity file provides career information resources and tools to support a guidance program. Section 1 is a school guidance program plan designed to assist school counselors in strengthening their current program or in designing a new one. The information can be used to assist schools in meeting the requirements of Standard VI,…

This combination procedures manual and annotated bibliography is intended to assist faculty and staff at community colleges in North Carolina in developing centralized job placement and development services. The first section describes the project to establish centralized employment services at Guilford Technical Community College during which the…

This guide is designed to help Canadian educators, in partnership with their communities, organize and operate off-campus education programs that provide meaningful experiences for students. It outlines required and recommended procedures to guide school authorities as they implement off-campus education programs in both core and optional subject…