One of three documents presenting performance objectives for prevocational courses, this document contains performance objectives for courses in business education including general business and beginning typing. (The other two documents present performance objectives for prevocational courses in home economics, CE 018 863, and industrial arts, CE…

The beginning course provides students with the various techniques and supplies necessary for finishing and refinishing in the home and for home furnishings. Course content includes goals, specific objectives, orientation, selecting tools, equipment, finishes, finishing problems, and maintenance and safety. Also incorporated are consumer…

Presented are curriculum guidelines for employment orientation programs for handicapped secondary students in New Jersey. Basic skill training is described for 10 vocational cluster areas: bench work, food service, building custodian, clerical work, transportation, distribution and sales, construction trades, health service, horticulture and…

The beginning course involves the student with practices in plumbing, referring to the various systems of pipes and tubes that carry liquids and gases from a source to a building. Course content includes goals, specific objectives, orientation, selecting hardware, tools and equipment, prescription for faulty fixtures, and plumbing installations.…

The manual explains how special education students in an occupational program used tires to construct an inexpensive instructional playground for handicapped elementary school pupils. Presented in two sections with accompanying pictures or diagrams are activity ideas for using the tires in a variety of configurations (Part 1) and construction and…

Intended for use in inservice training of teachers of mentally retarded and other children in the elementary grades, the packet includes general articles on career education, suggestions for integrating career education into content areas, recommended activities for the classroom, and ideas for teacher made materials. An article on the nature of…

Presented is a curriculum guide on job skills for special education secondary students. Listed are tasks, skills and related academic concepts (including reading, mathematics, and vocabulary) for the following 10 units: housekeeping, floor care, laundry worker, food service worker, grocery store worker, general shop worker, clerical aide, nurse's…

Standards for programs serving multiply handicapped-visually handicapped students are presented in one of 16 self study and evaluation guides. Standards encompass the following 10 areas: planning and organization, personnel, basic personal independence, communications, development of personal awareness, music, motor development, prevocational…

Described are the rationale for and development of employment orientation programs for handicapped secondary students in New Jersey. Background information (including operational definitions of handicapped children and a review of the historical development of special education) is provided. It is explained that the employment orientation…

Presented is a report of a 4-month project designed to review literature on projects pertaining to deaf-blind prevocational training, to implement a model prevocational program for six severely handicapped deaf-blind students (10 years old), and to conduct two workshops in the area of prevocational training for deaf-blind students. Provided in…

Specific emphasis of this handbook is on the integration of 15 career clusters into an existing curriculum for grades 7 and 8. It is intended particularly for teachers who are exploring the various occupational clusters for the identification of the various career opportunities with their students. The 15 occupational cluster topics included are:…

This program is designed to provide an individualized series of vocationally useful sub-skills in a wide variety of areas to trainable mentally handicapped students in a prevocational program. The Introduction and General Information section is categorized into What the Program Is Designed to Do, Who Can Use the Program, How to Modify the Program…

Intended for handicapped students and their parents, the booklet presents a guide to special education services in the Boston, Massachusetts, public schools, focusing on Chapter 766, a Massachusetts law that guarantees every child the right to a free and appropriate public education. Section 1 discusses the evaluation process, covering such…

The prevocational course in business education is designed to enable the sophomore student to complete a full year of typewriting, explore careers in business, and gain beginning skills for business jobs. The 12-unit course includes units on introduction and typing review, machine and manual math, communication and self-awareness, punctuation,…

Presented is the CI-TAB (Career Information and Training Activities for the Blind) script of 23 cassette recordings providing career education for visually handicapped and blind middle-school students. Included are eight study units titled: "What Work Is"; "Why People Work"; "How People Find Jobs"; "What People…