Comprehensive Personnel Development for Career Education.

Overview & Synopsis

Career education is a bold design for education effecting a blend of academic, general, and work skills learning so that individuals passing through the school system will be ready for economic self-sufficiency, for a personally satisfying life, and for new learning experiences appropriate to career development and avocational interests. The comprehensive model designed for career education is revolutionary; equally revolutionary will be the reforms to take effect in methodology, teacher-student relationships, administrative planning, and community participation. Realizing that these reforms will rely on trained staff, the Bureau of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education is committed to a comprehensive personnel development program for career education. Among the activities of the Bureau which support needed staff development are: (1) teacher-training grants, (2) special project grants, (3) Area Manpower Institutes for the Development of Staff (AMIDS), (4) curriculum development programs, (5) exemplary programs and projects, and (6) leadership development grants. (JS)