This program guide outlines the sequential curriculum prescribed by the Department of Education for teachers in the Newfoundland and Labrador schools K-11. The major objective is to present a list of required subjects for each grade level with instructional materials adjunct to the prescribed course identified. Minimal instructions are given to…

Discusses a team teaching approach integrating academic and vocational educational concepts. (SB)

A synthesis of research findings demonstrates the positive effects of vocational-technical education on skills, abilities, work habits, and employment outcomes such as salaries and employment rate. (SK)

In Oklahoma, specialists in mathematics and communications show vocational teachers how to emphasize academic content within their technical area. The program maintains a balance between theoretical and practical teaching so that graduates are prepared for the working world. (JOW)

Responses from 297 academic and 91 vocational educators in secondary and postsecondary schools showed that academic educators perceived more curriculum integration at their institutions than did vocational educators; postsecondary teachers perceived more integration than did secondary teachers. Administrative practices to support integration…

A study of nine secondary schools serving academically talented students found criteria for admissions included teacher recommendations, grades, standardized achievement tests, and IQ tests. Teachers were dynamic, there were more courses offered at schools for the academically talented, and schools offered a wide array of non-academic courses.…

Examines recent returns to schooling and vocational and occupational training in OECD countries. Provides estimates of short-cut, Mincer-type, and internal rates of return to schooling and alternative estimates of returns to formal and informal post-school training investments. High-return countries include Austria, Canada, France, Mexico,…

Requirements to integrate academic and vocational education in the 1990 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act are intended to achieve widespread changes and improvements in the field in a short time frame. This resource list supports the efforts of those educators working to enhance vocational education students' learning…

The study reported in this document was conducted to identify, describe, and assess the potential of innovative approaches to integrating vocational and academic education as one way of helping students to understand the utility of academic learning. Research activities included case studies of five integrated-curriculum programs in California,…

Traditionally, education has been compartmentalized into academic subjects removed from everyday life, and education has been built on blocks going from the concrete to the abstract. However, humans often do not learn in that linear mode, and if they are to be prepared for the work world of the 1990s and beyond, they need a different model.…

Curriculum suggestions for the private secondary Christian school are provided. Emphasis is on developing theology together with standard academic disciplines. (DE)

Illustrations depict 465 new manual signs for use in high school and college instruction of deaf students. The signs represent words or phrases, usually made up of many letters, which are important to the following subject matters; sciences and mathematics (general terms), biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, psychology, humanities (general…

The author has reviewed and discussed the separatism existing among vocational, technical, and academic education and between secondary and post-secondary educational institutions. Results are reported of two national surveys to determine the perceptions of key State officials on the status of articulation of secondary and post-secondary…

The Department of Education for Nova Scotia schools prescribed this program guide containing instructions, information, and references for teachers K-12. The guide outlines: 1) required and elective subjects and courses for each grade level, and, 2) instructional materials required for each course. Programs offered are general education for…

This study examined the factors in adolescents' preference of academic school education to other kinds of secondary schooling in the Western and Lagos States of Nigeria; the vocational aspirations of adolescents now in the grammar schools; and the vocational expectations and present employments of some old products of these grammar schools. (SW)