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Download full textIllinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education. – 1984
This extrapolation paper is intended: (1) to present a model of a pretechnical curriculum that has as its focus the self-empowerment of the individual and (2) to describe how the curriculum could be implemented in the schools. The first part of the paper discusses the need for a pretechnical curriculum in terms of a model for self-empowerment.…
Descriptors: Coping, Daily Living Skills, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Rio Salado Community Coll., AZ. – 1985
A project was conducted to deliver general educational development (GED) instruction through an audio teleconferencing system to adult students in Arizona. Using a previously existing audio teleconferencing system owned by Rio Salado Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, project staff developed a series of credit and noncredit teleconferencing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Daily Living Skills
Middletown Public Schools, CT. – 1985
This packet of learning objectives is one in a series of materials for use with career ladder students in the Middletown, Connecticut, Public Schools. Career ladder students are those ranging from trainable mentally handicapped to educably mentally handicapped, learning disabled, and the high-risk dropout in the regular education program. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Exploration, Consumer Education
Owens, Thomas; And Others – 1975
Evaluation conducted during the 1974-75 school year of the Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) is reported, focusing on the evaluation findings of the EBCE demonstration project in Tigard, Oregon called Community Experiences for Career Education (CE)2, and various EBCE…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Case Studies, Daily Living Skills
Glover-Smith, Alma J.; Bell, Bernadette S. – 1981
Written for teachers, coordinators, and supervisors, this manual describes the structural content of Project SELEP (Survival Skills in English Learning Experience Program). It indicates areas of concern in planning, establishing, and evaluating classes emphasizing survival skills for daily living appropriate for the foreign born adult in an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development
Kokaska, Charles J., Ed. – 1981
The document contains 16 papers on program implementation in the career development of the handicapped, and is one of three volumes of selected papers presented at a November, 1981, international conference on the career development of handicapped individuals. Papers have the following titles and authors: "A Career Education Materials Development…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Art
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Dept. of Vocational Education. – 1981
A project identified those skills that are necessary for disadvantaged youth to make a successful transition from school to work and disseminated resource materials for use in helping vocational educators plan and develop school-to-work transition skills development programs. Data from a literature search and interviews with vocational educators…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Choice, Career Exploration, Communication Skills
Kauffman, James M., Ed.; Hallahan, Daniel P., Ed. – 1981
Intended to serve as a basic reference work for students and professionals in special education, the book contains 34 author contributed chapters concerned with the conceptual foundations of special education, service delivery systems, curriculum and methods, and child and child/environmental management. Chapters have the following titles and…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Administration, Arithmetic, Career Education
Speers, Mary Lou – 1978
This guide provides a framework to help secondary teachers and students explore the growing societal problems of shoplifting. The guide can be used in inservice programs as well. Five sessions are designed to inform students of the social, legal, and economic aspects of stealing. In these sessions, students define shoplifting, discuss the types of…
Descriptors: Business Education, Civil Liberties, Class Activities, Consumer Education
Hoxeng, James – 1972
This paper describes a simulation game, "Hacienda," designed to replicate the economic and social realities of the peasants' situation in rural Ecuador. The game involves three to 15 players (and often more), one of whom, by a roll of the dice, takes the role of "hacendado," or hacienda owner, who gains title to all the…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Assertiveness, Attitude Change, Change Agents
Kreps, Alice Roelofs; Joslin, Denny
One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, General Experience Course for the Lower Functioning Person. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities
Kreps, Alice Roelofs – 1976
One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Reading I. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Beginning Reading, Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities
Kreps, Alice Roelofs – 1977
One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this guide provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course Reading II. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to eventual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Behavioral Objectives
Royce, Sherry; Malesic, Linda – 1979
This teacher's guide and one hundred lesson plans are an adult performance level (APL) curriculum to assist adult basic education (ABE) teachers in switching to a competency based adult education program which integrates academic and life skills concepts into one lesson. The teacher's guide describes the project need, product, method of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Resources, Community Services
Carbon - Lehigh Intermediate Unit, Schnecksville, PA. – 1978
The third of three guidelines for teaching sequential skills to handicapped children focuses on prevocatonal and practical life skills. Objectives are listed for the following areas (sample subcategories in parentheses): application forms (driver's permit, social security benefits); banking; buying (supermarket skills); budgeting; food preparation…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Banking, Behavioral Objectives, Budgeting
