The Continuous Learning Task Force's primary goal was to develop guidance for Kansas educators to meet the immediate need of supporting learning outside of the normal practices. The team intentionally adopted the word "Continuous" as a means to bring clarity and focus to the experience of teachers, students and families as the 2019-2020…

This set of mathematics instructional materials are examples of how a teacher can integrate career education into math. Six topics related to the career education concept are featured. "Sample Math Problems" was written for a class studying about jobs in a bakery, and the problems are ones that would be encountered in a bakery. "Careers as Related…

This paper presents tips, activities, resources, and games that parents can use to help their children become more proficient in math. Some helpful tips offered are: (1) Be positive; (2) Play family games; (3) Avoid stereotypes; (4) Choose gifts that develop problem solving skills; (5) Expand your children's horizons; (6) Buy or borrow library…

This booklet along with six others comprises a curriculum guide developed for adult education supervisors and teachers of undereducated workers or job seekers whose inability to develop the skills and obtain the knowledge necessary to meet the requirements of the working world are primarily due to a lack of competence in reading and math skills.…

Designed to assist the classroom teacher interested in implementing career education, this guide presents lesson plans, prepared by public school teachers, which integrate career education activities. Learner objectives, which provide a base for implementation plans, are listed in the introductory section and relate to self-knowledge,…

One hundred forty-two activities in career education which can be incorporated into the regular K-12 curriculum are presented in the document. Ideas for the activities were obtained from teachers in nine Arkansas schools involved in an exemplary career education project. The activities are grouped as follows: separately by grade level for K-9;…

This workbook provides a variety of activities that are multi-disciplinary in approach. Activities are included for both elementary and secondary school students. Teacher reference sheets usually include suggestions for the activities including concepts, objectives, pre-activities, activity procedures, and post-activities. Content areas include…

The teachers' resource guide is designed to provide briefly stated but easily adapted ideas for career education activities. The document is organized according to grade level (K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12). Activities for the K-6 grade levels are subgrouped by career elements: career awareness, self-awareness, attitudes and appreciations, decision…

Elementary guidance materials providing career education activities for grades K-6 are presented for utilization by elementary teachers and elementary guidance specialists. Arranged by grade level, materials cover the following career education concepts: appreciation and attitudes, self-awareness, decision making, career awareness, and educational…

"Written with the teacher's imagination in mind," this seven-chapter career education booklet's aim is to help teachers reorganize classroom activities. The booklet stresses: "One small step by teachers who thoughtfully plan...what they teach is worth more to a school system than a highly polished superstructure that is difficult to…

Consisting of nine individualized inservice packets, the Teaching Teen Reading Series describes reading procedures applicable to instruction in all subjects in the elementary, middle, and secondary school. This seventh packet is designed to enable the teacher to utilize a sequential procedure in content reading. The objective of this is to provide…

The curriculum guide presents career development concepts of orientation and exploration for the areas of English, health, math, science, and social studies at the seventh through tenth grade level. For each concept in each area, the following items are presented: developmental objective, behavioral objective, related subject areas, learning…

A teacher's guide to six career education units--one for each of the elementary grades--has been compiled from a series of complete guides for each grade. Each of the six representative units includes step-by-step instructions for teacher activities in preparing and carrying out a simulated career experience; related curriculum concepts in math,…

Instructional materials included in this guide were developed to provide vocational services to mildly handicapped special needs students mainstreamed into regular schools. Material represents strategies or directions in specific areas of occupational education, rather than specific curriculum guides; it is addressed to both the teacher and the…

Planned for use in an individualized instructional program, the manual contains behavioral objectives for each of five subject areas: commercial (business education), communications (language arts), math, science, and social studies, plus a program in remedial and developmental reading. Arranged by color coded sections, the subject areas are…