Developing Career Education Infusion Programs after Job-Shadowing.

Overview & Synopsis

The Educators-in-Industry project described in this document is sponsored by the General Electric Foundation to offer experience in the business and industrial world to educators. In Hawaii, where General Electric has no factory facilities, other businesses provide job shadowing sites for administrators, counselors, and K-12 teachers. Over 100 educators have participated in summer workshops that have been offered for the past four years. Participants take part in a three-day on-site visit and then return to the workshop classroom to share their experiences. Educators develop individualized career education plans for their learners and infuse career education into their curriculum. Following the two-page description of the project are examples of career education infusion projects currently in progress in K-12 classes in Hawaii schools as a result of the program. Examples are provided of the infusion of career education into: (1) the kindergarten and elementary levels in the areas of oral communication and writing skills, social studies, creating and cooperating, responsibility, career awareness/self-concept, ecology, and the visitor industry; (2) special education; (3) counseling; and (4) vocational education in the areas of business education, vocational agriculture, and home economics. (YLB)