Career Education in Vocational Teacher Education.

Overview & Synopsis

The focus of this report is on infusing career education content into vocational teacher education programs. It is one of seven similar reports dealing with program development in career education for teacher, counselor, and administrator preparation. (All of the reports were developed from the project, "Statewide Infusion of Career Education into the Preparation of Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators," which focused on the following three aspects of preparing educational personnel for expanded and extended roles in career education: Staff development for college and university faculties; program development for teacher, counselor, and administrator preparation; and teacher certification and program accreditation.) This report is divided into two sections. The first section presents the results of the work done by the Vocational Education Task Force in identifying, collecting, reviewing, and organizing a body of career education information for use in the preparation of vocational teachers. The second section provides an example of a vocational teacher education course syllabus infused with career education content, along with the accompanying student performance record and teaching-learning activities for the course. The appendix contains the form used by different task forces in identifying, describing, and classifying career education elements. (TA)