Making It Relevant. Exploring the World of Work Can Enhance Students' Academic and Technological Knowledge.

Welty, Kenneth

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Making It Relevant. Exploring the World of Work Can Enhance Students' Academic and Technological Knowledge.

Welty, Kenneth

Vocational Education Journal, v65 n7 p30-31 Nov 1990

To make the junior high/middle school curriculum more responsive to early adolescents, Illinois teachers evolved the ACT curriculum. Its three missions are applied academics, career exploration, and technological literacy, organized around themes relevant to the lives of young people. (SK)

Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Exploration, Curriculum Enrichment, Discovery Learning, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Relevance (Education), Student Motivation, Technological Literacy

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