Designed for a 90- or l80-day middle/junior high school career orientation course, this teacher's guide and the accompanying student activity manual focus on how personal needs can be met in the career world. Course goals listed are as follows: (1) to increase understanding of self by helping students analyze personal interests, abilities, values, and needs relative to their life roles, (2) to become aware of work styles (the ways in which people work) and how they are related to the personality characteristics, (3) to provide orientation to the fifteen U.S. Office of Education occupational clusters and their relationship to work modes, and (4) to provide opportunities for the synthesis of self, work styles, and cluster interests relative to the selection of career-related experiences both in and out of school. The guide provides a purpose for each of fifty-one student activities, quotes a portion of the student's introductory and summary material, suggests evaluation guidelines, offers advice on instructional procedure, and lists the materials and time required. Framework for the course is based on six work modes or styles (mechanical, conventional, enterprising, social, investigative, and creative) and on the fifteen USOE occupational clusters. Student activities are designed to provide wide flexibility in student participation including individual and group work. Most include some cognitive material and many are psychomotor in nature. (JT)