Career Education and the Teaching/Learning Process. Monographs on Career Education.

Overview & Synopsis

This monograph was developed to help K-12 classroom teachers infuse career education into the teaching/learning process as a regular part of their instructional responsibilities. After defining career education, this booklet briefly discusses the rationale, target population, and who is responsible for career education. Then follows a discussion on the relationship of career education and the teaching/learning process. To provide a better understanding of this relationship, the following four topics are examined in detail: (1) teaching philosophy; (2) purposefulness of learning; (3) variety of teaching techniques (includes interview, discussion, bulletin boards, and learning centers); and (4) the process of weaving/infusing/threading career education into the curriculum (includes the perspectives of both the program planner and classroom teacher). Finally, this monograph makes some concrete suggestions for the implementation of career education in terms of the readiness of school administrators, teachers, and the community. (EM)