This is one of five performance-based secondary level guides for vocational education. Part 1 provides tools, resources, and a process to be used at the local level to develop a firefighter cadet training curriculum. It includes a comprehensive overview of the career field; a performance-based listing of firefighting job tasks; a description of the attitudes and values inherent in firefighting; a method for developing learning activity packages; two sample learning activity packages; descriptions of eight commonly used teaching methods; and a listing of instructional resources. Part 2 offers the guidance counselor career information and recommends steps to determine criteria for student selection and placement in the training program. It includes a theoretical framework for guidance activities; a description of the general aptitude test battery; a composite profile of the entry-level worker; a listing of the instructional units of a widely used remediation program; the Worker Trait Codification System (from the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles"); descriptions of related jobs; and job titles associated with the principal worker trait group identified for the entry-level worker. (NJ)