Career Development. Administrator's Guide.

Overview & Synopsis

The purposes of this guide are to familiarize K-12 administrators with the concept of career education and to provide suggestions for planning and developing a career development program in a local school. It outlines a practical strategy for getting career development adopted and implemented at the local level. Topics covered are as follows: Need for career education, rationale for career education, definition of career education, general goals of career education, developmental phases of career education, characteristics of career education, suggested content and activity emphases in career development programs, models for career education, suggested career education experience by grade level, objectives for career education, summary of selected career education goals, a plan for implementation, steps for implementation, the need for local commitment to inservice training, planning for inservice training, guidelines for career education inservice programs, statewide conference on career education, faculty meeting--suggested agenda, system-wide advisory council, community resource questionnaire, and a North Dakota State directory of contact persons for career education. A bibliography is also included. (TA)