Training K-12 Staff for Career Education.

Overview & Synopsis

This report provides training activities for teachers, counselors, and other elementary-secondary staff members who are involved in the delivery of career education to students. Training activities are based on the practical training experience of sixteen school districts and two universities which comprise the Wisconsin Career Education Consortium. Based on a needs assessment, competencies to be developed by elementary-secondary staff members were written. The training and retraining efforts fall into six categories, including (1) workshops, (2) inservice programs, (3) university extension courses, (4) school/community involvement projects, (5) peer visitation, and (6) local dissemination. School personnel, department of public instruction personnel, university staff, and publishers can be used as consultants to assist the local district to identify and define career education and to develop a planning model and procedure. (Included in the appendixes are a career education curriculum writing proposal and a local career education inservice training model for educators in high schools.) (LRA)