A Career Education Project for the Texas School for the Deaf. Career Education: An Innovative Approach to Relevant Education. Final Report.

Overview & Synopsis

A career education project was conducted at the Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) to develop a plan of implementation of career education for grade levels 1-12, to train teachers in career education concepts and techniques and in how to write curriculum materials, to develop and duplicate teacher guides and materials for grade levels 1-8, and to initiate plans for an accountability and recording system. Methods used to accomplish the objectives fall into four categories: Work of an operational staff, efforts of a career education workshop for teachers, duplication of materials for teachers' guides for grades 1-8, and services of an evaluator/program developer. A detailed description of specific results achieved in each of these areas is provided, as well as results of the career education workshop participant reactionnaire. Appendixes contain evaluation results of the curriculum writing workshop; a sample unit including objectives, activities, resources, and vocabulary; participant reactionnaire form; measurement instruments reviewed for possible use in TSD career education, and teacher classroom forms. (TA)