DOCUMENT RESUME ED 112 164 CE 004 982 TITLE Indiana Career Resource Center: Annual Report: 1974-75. INSTITUTION Indiana Univ., South Bend. Indiana Career Resource Center. PUB DATE [75] NOTE 207p.; Portions of Appendix N may not be completely legible in microfiche; Not available in hard copy due to paper color of original document EDRS PRICE LIF-$0.76 Plus Postage. HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Annual Reports; *Career Education; Educational Development; *Educational Programs; Educational Resources; Letters (Correspondence); Questionnaires; *Resource Centers; Resource Materials; Teaching Techniques IDENTIFIERS Career Information Centers; *Indiana ABSTRACT The report presents an account of the activities and progress of the Indiana Career Resource Center in its sixth year as a source of ideas and programs for educators developing their own career education programs. It documents the services offered: (1) inservice and preservice training of classroom teachers, student teachers, counselors, administrators, and school board and community members in the concepts and involvement of a career education program;(2) editing and producing media to assist educators, including a career education specialty training directory; (3) developing contacts in the local community and becoming involved with local projects as a means of piloting ideas that could be duplicated in other settings (women's career center, career guidance institute, life planning, conference telephone use in career education) and career development workshops for the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). An evaluation and the implications of the effectiveness of these services are given. Four-fifths of the report consists of appended material: a list of consultations, occupational information class evaluation, public relations brochure, film descriptions, career digests, CETA workshop materials, material loan list, feedback form and comments, "People in Careers" evaluation form, conference telephone evaluation forms, career guidance institute questionnaire, letters, and newspaper clippings. (Author/EC) *********************************************************************** Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. *********************************************************************** SE F 5 INDIANA CAREER RESOURCE CENTER Annual Report : 1974 -75 U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO- DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN- ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NV.CESSARILY REPRE- SENT orricIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY ns tr6 Li) 1.4 LIL:S.)1 FOREWORD This is a report of the total activities and progress of the staff of the Indiana Career Resource Center during the 1974-75 year. Catalyst The purpose of the report is primarily archival, but the Report data and ideas presented may serve as a catalyst for other fledgling or continuing projects of a similarnature. The reader of the report needs to be aware that the attempts reported here are those of a dedicated team with an assignment of influencing the educators of Indiana to infusecareer education into the learning experiences of all youth. Accountability This report represents an annual communication to the Vocational Education Division of the Indiana Department of Public Instruction. It is an accounting for the services delivered in return for the expenditure of Vocational funds trusted to the project. Without this funding, and the encourage- ment of both Don Gentry, Director, and Jerry Keiser of the Divi- sion, this service would not have been possible. it is also necessary and highly appropriate to laud Dr. Dean Speicher, Superintendent, and Donald Kramer, Business Manager, and the Board of Trustees of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation for providing their fiscal accounting and managerial support during the year. Drs. Lester Wolfson, Eldon Ruff, and Floyd Urbach of Indiana University at South Bend have been most generous of their time in support of the project and are applauded for their willingness to continue the housing of the staff and media. Staff Most of all I would like to publicly express a trust Thanks and belief in the creativeness, professionalism, maturity, and skillfulness exerted by the staff whose accomplishmentsare the bulk of this report. In my mind it seems impossible to imagine any other team that could accomplish as much with the resources provided. That staff is: Donna Bach, June Bouskill, Paul Elliott, Carolyn Foster, Jim Meuninck, Joyce Miller, Betty Morrison, Roger Penrose, Kim Powers, Paul Smith, Lorraine Wisner, and David Yates. Thanks. Gerald Dudley Director 1974-75 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page I. FOREWORD II. INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE 1 III. RESULTS 3 A. NATIONAL INVOLVEMENT 3 B. SERVICES OF THE CENTER 5 1. In Service and Pre Service 5 2. Media Production 8 3. Community Involvement 12 4. Material Loan 19 C. EVALUATION OF SERVICES 21 1. In-Service Workshops 22 2. People Resource Responses 23 3. People In Careers Directory Use 23 4. Conference Telephone Use 24 5. Career Guidance Institute 25 IV. SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS 33 V. APPENDIXES 36 A. List of Consultations B. Occupational Information Class Evaluation C. Public Relations Brochure D. Film Descriptions E. Career Digests F. CETA Workshop Materials G. Material Loan List H. Feedback Formand Comments J. People in Careers Evaluation Form K. Conference Telephone Evaluation Forms L. Career Guidance Institute Questionnaire M. Letters N. Newspaper Clippings INTRODUCTION One has only to glance at the pages of the U. S. 0. E. publication: Career Education: State of the Scene, (Nov. 1974), to realize the ever-growing acceptance of career education as a concept in American Education. Each state has been increasing its career education efforts in the belief that the youth of this nation will be better served educationally through such efforts. Indiana Indiana has approached career education from a unique Approach but quite realistic direction in hopes that local initiative will be more effective in delivering career education to stu- dents than will model building, validity testing and field implementation from a cloistered laboratory. During the preceeding years and through this past year the funds to supportthese local efforts have been provided by Vocational Education funds. Experience The initiation, development, and dissemination of ideas Based for educators in Indiana have primarily grown from experiences of the Elkhart and New Albany school systems, 15 mini-projects operating in scattered sites throughout Indiana, the services of the Career Center at Huntingburg and the state-wide staff development services of the Indiana Career Resource Center. A flow of documents and outcomes is emanating from these sites that have a multiplier effect on the state-wide educator in- volvement in career education efforts. Growth This report documents the activities of the Indiana Career Resource Center from July, 1974 through June, 1975. This is the sixth consecutive report of this project. In its early years, the Center served as a model for meetingthe career educational needs of Northern Indiana. In these later years the service has extended throughout the state. Recognized nationally as one method for providing educators with tech- niques for developing their own career education efforts, the Center continues to receive a flow of idea requests from throughout the U. S. and Indiana. PURPOSE Documentation Throughout this project year requests for consultant assistance have been received from educators throughout In- diana. It has been the task of this Center to design and present the kind of program that will assist those educators to be able to develop their own career education projects, units, workshops, media, etc. Whenever a request for assistance is sounded, the staff communicates with the school and develops an approach that will help those educators to meet the career development needs of youth. The major purpose of the Center is to have staff and materials available for assisting other educators with career education implementation. This report documents the quantity of service to users as well as the perceived quality of the programs. It also presents third party reports of the usefulness of some of the local efforts to try new approaches relating the world of work to the education world. 7 -2- RESULTS: NATIONAL INVOLVEMENT: A series of mini - conferences were held during the summer months of 1974, and Dr. Gerald Dudley was invited by the present Director of the Office of Career Education, Dr. Kenneth B. Hoyt, to represent the Center project in one of the sessions. In addition, the Mobile Unit represented Indiana projects on in- vitation from Dr. Hoyt. The Indiana Career Resource Center's Mobile Training Unit, with two Career Education Consultants aboard, Kim Powers and Paul L. Smith, Jr., visited the United States Office of Education in Washington, D. C., Tuesday, August 20, through Thursday,