Native American Career Education Staff/Community Training Workshop. Coordinator's Manual. Native American Career Education Demonstration Project.

Overview & Synopsis

This staff/community training workshop handbook was written for teachers, counselors, career education specialists, administrators, and other educational staff; for parents, and Indian community representatives; and for any others who will be providing support for a native American career education program, or who will be actively engaged in developing and implementing it. The workshop consists of four sessions. The first session is devoted to providing participants with a general background in career education content and goals, and helping them begin to identify career education resources which are already available. The second session describes the various groups of people who can be involved in developing and implementing career education. The third session describes methods for teaching career education to native American students, beginning with a series of transparencies illustrating traditional Indian education methods, and goes on to introduce the twelve units in the native American career education program. The fourth session focuses on the pros and cons of strategies which have been used to implement career education in various settings, the basic tasks and stages of development for such a program, the most promising sources of funding, and some basic proposal development skills. Readings for each of the sessions are appended. (LRA)