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Download full textIllinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education. – 1992
This report contains 51 one-page abstracts of innovative Illinois tech prep programs that integrate academic and vocational education. Each abstract includes the following: curriculum areas, grade level, types of students for whom the program is appropriate, materials needed, suggested resources, a contact person with address and telephone number,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Career Exploration, Community Development
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Office of Agricultural Communications and Education. – 1989
This curriculum guide contains 5 teaching units for 44 agricultural business and management cluster problem areas. These problem areas have been selected as suggested areas of study to be included in a core curriculum for secondary students enrolled in an agricultural education program. The five units are as follows: (1) agribusiness operation and…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Occupations
Courson, Roger L.; And Others – 1983
This curriculum guide includes teaching packets for 12 areas of study to be included in a core curriculum for 11th-grade or third-year students enrolled in rural agricultural programs in Illinois. Each problem area includes some or all of the following components: suggestions to the teacher, teacher guide, competency inventory, information sheet,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production, Animal Husbandry
Cumming, Todd; Lesniak, Greta – 2000
The possibility of improving employability skills through cooperative education and tech prep was examined in an action research project involving high school students from two neighboring suburban communities in northern Illinois. The extent to which the schools were currently teaching employment and career development skills was examined by…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Action Research, Career Development, Check Lists
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education. – 1989
This curriculum guide is one of five developed as part of the Illinois Plan for Business, Marketing, and Management Education for use in 9th and 10th grades. The curriculum guide includes teacher and student activities that can be implemented in many ways. Information on how to integrate the activity objectives of the Illinois Plan into the State…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Science, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
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Direct linkThompson, Brett A. – Tech Directions, 2004
Since its inception in 1997, Cisco's curriculum has entered thousands of high schools across the U.S. and around the world for two reasons: (1) Cisco has a large portion of the computer networking market, and thus has the resources for and interest in developing high school academies; and (2) high school curriculum development teams recognize the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Secondary School Curriculum, Secondary School Teachers, Curriculum Development
