This guide is designed as an outline of strategies and activities that could be implemented to encourage students to enter nontraditional occupations. The information and ideas are intended for use by teachers, counselors, and administrators at all educational levels to promote equal and full participation of students in Connecticut's vocational-technical education system. Users are encouraged to customize the techniques to meet their particular educational needs and circumstances. The guide is divided into four sections. Each section provides strategies that have applicability for select audiences or target populations. "Recruitment Activities for Students" contains activities to encourage eighth-grade students in the district schools and ninth-grade students in exploratory programs at the vocational-technical schools. Strategies to eliminate potential barriers to parental involvement are offered. "Community Activities" offers techniques for encouraging community interest and involvement in the vocational schools. "Publicity and Promotional Techniques" suggests activities for use of popular media, including newspapers, television, and radio. "Personnel Activities" details activities to be used to develop an awareness among school personnel of gender equity issues. (YLB)
- Authorizing Institution
- Vocational Equity Research, Training and Evaluation Center, Hartford, CT.
- Location
- Connecticut
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Guides - Non-Classroom
- Published in
- United States of America
- Sponsor
- Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Middletown. Div. of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education.
Table of Contents
- Activities Publicity Promotional Techniques and Personnel Activities. 2
- For 2
- Readers are encouraged to customize the techniques to meet their particular 2
- There are two target groups toward whom activities should be directed when recruiting students for nontraditional 3
- Offer an exploratory summer session for students between seventh and eighth grades as a prevocational 3
- Design family nights during which teachers counselors adult and student role models talk to parents 4
- Develop a career workshop for eighth-grade students. Program content could include films and exhibits 4
- Have vocatioti guidance counselors offer presentations to eighth-grade students about males and females 4
- Arrange for a spokesperson in a nontraditional trade to prepare a brief explanation of their craft and its 4
- Develop enrichment classes for ninth-grade vocational students who want nontraditional shops. These 4
- Arrange field trips for ninth-grade students to visit job sites and talk with industry representatives as well 5
- Ensure that non-English-speaking parents receive written invitations to school functions in their native 5
- Schedule meetings during hours compatible with parental non-work hours. More than one meeting may 5
- Vocational-technical schools need to solicit support from their communities in order to gather resources which can 6
- Make presentations at PTA or other parent group meetings on recruitment of students into nontradi- 6
- Vocational-technical schools can increase their recruitment activities through the use of publicity and promotional 7
- Create vocational program brochures focusing upon students in nontraditional careers. These brochures 7
- Createorganize school bulletin boards depicting students working in nontraditional occupations. 7
- Display recruitment posters throughout the school depicting males and females in nontraditional careers. 7
- Place posters in prominent locations such as entry ways cafeterias and other high traffic areas. 7
- Design exhibitions in shopping malls to encourage students and their parents to consider nontraditional 8
- Provide inservice programs for teachers and counselors in order to assist them in working with nontradi- 8
