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Each volume of these vocational guides contains practical advice on career openings and prospects, educational requirements and training, likely working conditions and possible employers. This book has been revised and updated to include the latest developments in the hotel and catering trades. ... Read more

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This book provides the practical information you need to make the transition from traditional "vocational" education programs to the new approaches to career and technical education. It shows you how to organize your schools around relevant career majors using a variety of evolving school formats such as Career Major programs, Tech Prep programs, Academies, and Magnet Schools. ... Read more

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A well written and solid guide
Beyond Vocational Education: Career Majors, Tech Prep, Schools Within Schools, Magnet Schools & Academics by David J. Pucel (Professor and Coordinator of the Office of Professional Development Outreach for the Department of Work, Community, and Family Education, University of Minnesota) is a solid and practical guide to the varied and confusing options to those interested in exploring new career-oriented and technical education programs. Chapters address how to establish career majors, gaining community-based experiences for a school-to-work track, evaluating the effectiveness of one's chosen educational route, and much more. Highly recommended for anyone planning their schooling as training for a desired career, Beyond Vocational Education is a well written and solid guide. ... Read more

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Frank and accessible with case studies from veterinary students and vets, this guide looks at what qualities are needed to succeed within the profession, how to secure a place at veterinary school and the topical issues in the veterinary world today. ... Read more

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"Getting Into" course guides offer up-to-date information which explain the procedures for getting into higher education. They detail the qualifications required and provide advice on applications, individual case studies and a companion website. This guide details veterinary courses. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Techniques, published by Association for Career and Technical Education on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 503 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The new ACTE Guidance Division. (Meet ACTE Divisions & Regions).(Association for Career and Technical Education)
Author: Judy Petersen
Publication: Techniques (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Association for Career and Technical Education
Volume: 78Issue: 3Page: 45(2)

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This digital document is an article from Nursing Education Perspectives, published by National League for Nursing, Inc. on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1799 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: High school counselors' knowledge of professional nursing as a career option. (High School Counselors).
Author: Deolinda Mignor
Publication: Nursing Education Perspectives (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: National League for Nursing, Inc.
Volume: 23Issue: 2Page: 86(3)

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Fully revised and updated to include the latest changes in architectural training, this career guide describes the work of architects, the organization of an architectural practice, training and professional development. It provides details of courses available and entrance requirements. ... Read more

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Every day teachers face the challenge of teaching and educating the bereaved child, the pregnant teenager, the substance abuser, the physically and sexually abused, the emotionally starved and the socially inept. All such children face the demands of growing up in a complex and fast-changing world. This book examines the needs of both specialist counsellors and the classroom subject teachers whose impact on children inevitably has implications beyond the academic. ... Read more

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The books in this series are aimed at people entering work for the first time and those looking for a change of direction who aren't sure what they're qualified for. The books should encourage readers to explore a wide range of options. ... Read more

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This training program for teachers and carers assesses ASD students' strengths and abilities, fears and challenges and helps them acquire the skills necessary for a smooth transition from school to employment. The authors give guidance on developing life skills for employability and independent living, for example, hygiene, time and money management, communication skills, decision-making and setting and achieving realistic goals. They also clearly define the role of parents, job coaches and employers and stress that students are empowered by appropriate support from collaborative, informed teams. The career program enables students to find out about and explore career options, know how and where to search for a job and how to understand job advertisements. The sections on career preparation include strategies for writing resumes, filling in application forms, compiling career portfolios and conduct at interviews. The authors also cover topics such as punctuality and appropriate behavior in the workplace itself. This practical teaching resource is packed with lesson plans, implementation procedures, interactive activities and photocopiable worksheets, and the course can be taught over one year or three years. ... Read more

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A reference guide to the wide range of jobs available for those wanting a career outdoors. Covering everything from landscape gardening to countryside management or working on a government-funded research farm, the volume explains what each job entails and gives practical advice on how to get into each particular profession. There are real-life case studies, useful addresses and Web site URLs. ... Read more

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Careers in Education is part of the Mitchell Lane Series, Latinos At Work: Career Role Models for Young Adults. This valuable vocational reference series is a must for all schools and libraries serving Hispanic youth. Each book begins with a description of many careers along with education, talent, and experience necessary, salary ranges, and outlooks from a Latino perspective. Part 2 presents profiles of success: interviews with successful Latinos in many different careers with advice for young people who might want to pursue that career. Part 3 is a complete resource section filled with further reading of books, magazines, names and addresses of organizations to contact, and web addresses. Each highly usable volume in this 10-Volume series contains a master index to all the careers listed plus a master index to all the people profiled. ... Read more

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This text offers practical help on how to choose a career for teenagers who need direction and ideas. It explains what to take into account when choosing a career path, what is available and how to attain it. It details qualifications, training and grants for various sectors of employment. ... Read more

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Our purpose in creating this guidebook is twofold:

To help you understand the breadth of issues that you will encounter in choosing, applying to and paying for graduate school, and provide you with the overview you will need to work your way through the various stages of this process.

To provide you with a clear "pathway" to the best resources available to help you make informed decisions through the multi-stage process of selecting a program, completing a winning application, arranging an optimal financing plan and excelling in school.

During the course of our ongoing research and analysis, we've identified the best resources in each of seven subject areas (see above) and grouped these in Section II: "Graduate School: The Best Resources to Help You Choose, Get In and Pay." Use this section to identify those resources which are best suited to help you take the initiative in graduate school selection, admissions, and financing. We always recommend several resources that we believe can do the job well, so you'll have the freedom to choose resources that are convenient for you to find and meet your specific requirements.

For those who want to learn about the single best resource we've found to deal with a specific topic typically encountered when choosing, applying or paying for graduate school, we've grouped a number of outstanding resources together in Section III: "The Single Best Resources For Selected Graduate And Professional School Topics." Use this section if you've got limited time or a limited budget. In any case, we suggest that you peruse the recommendations we make in Section II.

Finally, in Section IV we've provided descriptions of "Resources of Interest to Specific Groups." Several dozen resources have been developed for the benefit of, or contain substantial sections focusing on, certain groups of students: persons of color, women, international students, and disabled students. We've provided this separate section to create a "shortcut" to all the resources we've found with these areas of focus; we list them in order of overall rating.

This guidebook contains a complete listing of all the resources we've reviewed, in Section V "Resource Reviews." In this section, we've arranged our full-page reviews by subject, to facilitate comparisons among all the resources we've reviewed on a particular subject.These reviews are ranked by Overall Star Rating (1-4 Stars) within each subject, so that the best resources are always listed first.

We've also provided a variety of indexes, which list all the resources reviewed in this guidebook alphabetically by title, author, publisher, media type, and subject, so that those who might be interested in a title they've heard about can read our evaluation of that particular resource. Our subject index will be especially useful to those who want to find all reviewed resources focused on a particular subject.

Good luck to you! On graduation day, looking back down the road you had to travel to receive your hard-earned degree, you'll mark this early research as the beginning of a challenging but tremendously rewarding life experience. ... Read more

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Comprehensive, indespensible, invaluable resource.
Now in a fully updated and expanded second edition, Graduate School: The Best Resources To Help You Choose, Get In, & Pay is designed specifically for those seeking a competitive edge when pursuing an advanced degree in the academic field of their choice. Graduate School explains theimportance of the GPA, GRE, and other tests in the admissions process, aswell as letters of recommendation, the personal statement, writing samples,and portfolios. Graduate School covers all aspects of choosing, applyingto, and excelling Business, Law, or Medical School. It surveys financing agraduate or professional degree, including federal and state financial aidprograms, the application process, the average loan burden, financial aidpaperwork, and much more. Graduate School also provides identifyingresources to aid in scholarship searches and is an invaluable, essentialresource. ... Read more

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This book describes how service learning, an intervention that can be both remedial or preventive and individual or systemic, can enable school psychologists to expand their role beyond special populations to serve students within the academic mainstream. It draws connections between the positive psychology movement, the nurturing of purpose in youth, and the benefits of service learning.

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A Great Resource for Educators
I highly recommend this book to all my fellow school psychologists.If you're tired of lunch bunches, trying to motivate the unmotivated, and looking for new interventions for academic problems, this book is for you.It explains what service learning is, and tells how you can use it to achieve academic, social/emotional, and career goals - all through ONE intervention.Service learning links school and the real world, so students learn things like social skills and conflict resolution in authentic contexts - making it easier for them to generalize the skills.The other thing I really like about this is it's flexible -- you can use it with one kid or a whole classroom, or the whole school.It can be used by both regular and special education students, and can be remedial or preventive.Read all about it!You'll be really glad you did. ... Read more

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Work in the various sectors of hairdressing and beauty therapy is described, illustrated by case studies, and details of the qualifications are given in this book. Linked as the subject is to physical fitness, it provides opportunities for careers that enhance personal appearance, and appeals to those who aim to bring out the best in their clients. A list of useful addresses where further information may be obtained is also included. ... Read more

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Career Award in Information and Communication Technology: Foundation Level accompanies the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) syllabus for the Career Award in Information and Communication Technology at Foundation Level.It closely matches the content of the syllabus, and has been endorsed by CIE for use with its examination.The author,an information technology specialist, writes in a lively, accessible style and uses a step-by-step approach to introduce students to the basic concepts and skills required. ... Read more