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Career Awareness Program, Project (Project CAP)

Career Awareness Program, Project (Project CAP). A program for infusing career awareness into the regular curriculum, emphasizing the relationship between careers and basic academic skills.

Audience Approved by PEP for students in grades K-6.

Description Project Career Awareness Program (Project CAP) is designed to complement the basic skills curriculum of the school while introducing students to the wide variety of ways in which people work. At the same time, students are able to grow in awareness of themselves in relation to the world of work. Project CAP student materials at each grade level consist of 32 different lessons and learning activity packets. Each learning activity packet contains an academic skill and a career script or story that presents the required tools, tasks, education or training, and economic rewards as well as the concept that work is a way of life. For example, with one packet, fourth grade students learn about the job of a land surveyor and practice a metric measurement skill as part of their math program. The skills range from those in reading and mathematics, to those in science, social studies, and language arts. Packets may be completed in as little as twenty minutes or may be expanded to cover a longer unit of time depending upon the lesson and the individual teacher's plan.

Evidence of Effectiveness Students participating in the program are significantly more aware of careers than comparable nonparticipating students as measured by a project-developed and validated criterion-referenced test of knowledge of occupations and the training/education required to enter them.

Requirements Project CAP requires no special staff or facility. Teachers at potential adopting sites are required to attend a four- to six-hour training session and to purchase materials.

Costs Start-up cost is approximately $130 to cover materials and supplies for a class of 25 students, plus a one-time training expense to cover travel, per diem, and a $200 honorarium.

Services In addition to training and materials, follow-up consultation is available upon request.

Contact
Lena Sparkman, Coordinator, Project Career Awareness Program, Boston Mountain Educational Cooperative, P. O. Box 13, Greenland, AR 72737. (501) 443-3336.

Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Title III and local.
PEP No. 78-178R2 (3/11/93)


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