vocational education

This guide, which represents schools east of the Mississippi, profiles thousands of institutions offering programs that lead to these careers: auctioneer, baker/pastry chef, cosmetologist, dental assistant, fashion model, massage therapist, mechanic, physician's assistant, and others.

A guide to choosing, training, education, and careers that provides information on more than one hundred training and education programs which can be completed in two years or less and details on one hundred related jobs.

Contains alphabetically-arranged entries on the different apprenticeship programs that are available; includes information on education requirements, when to apply, starting and ending salaries, and other related topics.

A guide for high school vocational education students that profiles 150 careers, describing the job itself, requirements, employers, advancement, earnings, work environment, outlook, how to enter the field, and how to get more information. Also lists each career's related school subjects and reference numbers for the "Guide for Occupational Exploration" (GOE) and "Occupational Information Network" (O*NET) databases.

Contains five teaching units and an annotated bibliography of over one thousand contemporary children's books educators may use to develop career awareness in sixth through eighth grade students.

Contains 130 activities designed to help students in grades three to six understand the relationship between the world of work and the subjects they study in school, including math, science, English, and social studies.

"A guide that teaches students how to acquire marketable job skills and real-world know-how before they graduate"--Provided by publisher.

"Provides practical strategies and standards-based model lessons proven to help close achievement gaps and increase the number of students who complete four-year programs"--Provided by publisher.