For Vocational Education

Thirty-seven secondary counselors attended a 2-week intensive training program at Carver Career and Technical Education Center to update their knowledge of vocational education and of the world of work, to improve their counseling and guidance techniques, and to develop new or revised plans of occupational guidance and counseling for their respective schools. The 2-week training program was the first phase of the Counselor Awareness Program for Vocational Education. Implementation of the new or revised plans of occupational guidance and counseling in participants ' schools during the 1971-72 school term was the second phase. Important long-range goals were to help students improve their knowledge and understanding of vocational education and their ability to make wise career decisions. As part of the on-site experience, counselors observed vocational education teachers instructing students, heard presentations by the teacher