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DEFINITIONS OF TERMS IN VOCATIONAL AND PRATICALARTS EDUCATION
Adult vocational education
:--- instruction offered to adults or out-of-school yourth over 16 years of age who arealready engaged in or are preparing to enter an occupation. Vocational education for adults is chiefly of an up-grading nature, offered on a part-time basic.
Adult farmer classes
:---classes of farmers who are established in the farming business and who are interestedin increasing their farming proficiency through attending regular instructional sessions.Such classes are or short term duration, often held in the evenings, and usually centeredaround one enterprise or unit of interest.
Advisory committee
---a group of persons, usually outside the education profession, selected for the purposeof offering advice and counsel to the school regarding the vocational program, with particular attention towards keeping the program partical and attuned to communityneeds. Members are repensentatives of the people who are interested in the activities withwhich the vocational program is cocerned. ( See also Craft advisory committee)
Agricultural education
---a systematic program of instruction for prospective and established,farmers, organized for the purpose of improving farm methods andrural living. Objectives are to develop a bilities to make a beginningand advance in farming, produce farm commodities effciently, marketthem advantageously, converve soil and other resources, manage afarm business, and maintain a favorable environment.
All-day classes in agriculture
---a class organized in a secondary school for purpils who wish tosecure systematic instruction in agriculture. Instruction deals withpratical farm problems and school time provides for class, laboratory,and farm shop experiences and studies and observations in the field.
All-day trade classes
---courses conducted for persons regularly enrolled in a full-time schoolwho have selected a trade or industrial pursuit and who wish toprepare for useful employment in that occupation. Training iscomprehensive and includes instruction in manipulative processes andalso in those technical and other related subjects which are needed bythe skilled and competent worker.
All-round mechanic
--- a trained individual possessing the skills and knowledges necessaryto do practically all for the jobs within a specified trade or occupation.American Vocational Association, Inc.---the national, professional organization of teacher, adminitrators,supervisors, and teacher-educators engaged in the various phases of vocational and pratical arts education. Its objectives are the promotionof sound vocational and practical arts education programs and theprofessional advancement of its members.
Applied art
2---an area of study dealing with the principles of art as related to theplanning, designing, manufacturing, or arrangement of suchcommodities as clothing, shelter, household furniture and equipment.
Apprentice training.
---an organized system for providing young people with themanipulative skills and technical or theoretical knowledge needed forcomplement performance in skilled occupations. The program usuallyinvolves cooperation among school, labor, and management, sinceapprentices learn the skills of the craftsman through on-the-job workexperiences and the related information in the classroom. Theminimum terms and conditions of apprenticeship are regulated bystate and local statutes or agreements.
Area vocational school
---a school offering specialized training to prospective, students in alarge geographical territory, usually involving more than one schooldistrict, and often operated or sponsored by the state.
Avocational interests.
--- those pursuits or hobbies which are distinct from the regular work oroccupation of the individual and which are followed for recreationalpurposes.
Business education.
---a program of education which equips the student with themarketable skills, knowledges, and attitudes needed for initialemployment and advancement in business occupations. The businesscurriculum includes stenographic subjects. (typing and shorthand),bookeeping, cleriacal practice, and office machines. General businesseducation provides the student with information and competencieswhich are needed by all, in managing personal business affairs and inusing the services of the business world.
Certificate of completion (certificate of training)
---written recognition granted to members of vocational classes uponsatisfactorily completing the requirements of a course of instruction.Such certificates are presented when courses are not taken for credittowards graduation.
Certification
--- (See teacher certification)
Citizens committee
---this term is used extensively in agricultural education in refering toadvisory committees.
Clearical pratice
---a business subject dealing with the various duties of office workersother than stenographic, e.g..typing, filing, keeping records, handlingoffice forms, and using duplicating, computing, and other officemachines.
Commerical education.
--- (See Business education)
Community college
---a composite of all educationla opportunities extended by the localpublic school system free to all persons who, having passed the normal
3age for completing the twelfth grade, need or want to continue theireducation. Vocational courses are emphasized in these communitycolleges.
Comprehensive (composite) general shop
--- a school designed and equipped to offer two or more areas of instruction in industrial arts. Such a shop may contain facilities forteaching drawing, woodworking, metalworking, graphic arts, andelectricity, or a similar combination of teaching areas. It is sometimescalled general shop, mutiple-activity shop, or laboratory of industries.
Comprenhensive high school
---a secondary school that offers both, general education courses andvocational education courses in its program.
Consultant
---a recognized expert in specialized field, not vested withadministrative authority, whose advice is sight by the school in theimprovement of a program of education and /or it facilities.
Consumer education
---understandings concerning the financial problems of the buyingpublic, e.g. credit, insurance, budgeting, buying procedures,specifications and standards for products, determination of prices, etc,aimed at helping the puplic to make choices, to buy more wisely, andto make intelligent use if purchases.
Continuation school or class
---(See Part-time class)
Cooperative education (cooperative part-time instruction)
---a training program that provides for alternation of study in schoolwith a job in industry or business, the two experiences being soplanned and supervised by school and employer that each contributesdefinitely to the student’s development in his chosen occupation. Workperiods and school attendance may be on alternate days, weeks, orother periods of time.
Coordinator
---a member of the school staff responsible for intergrating theclassroom instruction and the on-the-job activities of the employedstudent. The coordinator acts as liaison between the school andemployers in programs of cooperative education or other part-time jobtraining.
Coordinator-teacher (or teacher-coordinator)
---a member of the school staff who teachers the related and technicalsubject matter involved in work experience programs and coodinatesclassroom instruction with on-the-job training.
Counselor, guidance
---an experienced and trained person who assits another individual tounderstand himself and his opportunities to make appropriateadjustments, decisions, and choices in the light of his uniquecharateristics, and to initiate a course of training or work in harmonywith his selection.
Course of study.
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DEFINITIONS OF TERM IN VOCATIONAL AND PRATICAL
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