Career Mentoring for Middle-and-Junior High School Girls, Mentor’s Manual, 1996. Excellent resource for the mentor, which discusses the mentor, the mentee, and the workplace with activities.

Career Mentoring for Middle-and-Junior High School Girls, coordinator’s Manual, 1996. This manual is designed for individuals who are responsible for implementing career-mentoring programs that have an emphasis on nontraditional and high-wage occupations as they relate to middle school girls.

These Students Chose the Unexpected- Here’s What They Say About Finding Their Own Way, 1996. Bulletin materials for Middle School through adult. Comments by vocational education students about their nontraditional career choices. Classroom activities and student handouts are included.

New Ventures Math Tests, 1996. Non-Traditional Occupations for Women Criterion Indexed by Math level with Sample tests Levels 1 – 4 and CHOICES: SUGGESTED OCCUPATIONS.

Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women,1987. 29 minute video. The cowgirls in this documentary are modern day women aged six to sixty who ride, rope and tough out the elements just as well as their more famous cowboy counterparts. The film spans three generations, telling the real life stories of two women and two little girls.

Career Pathways…Planning for the Future, Length: 16:36 minutes. Iowa Department of Education Tech Prep, 1997.Career Pathways are clusters of occupations/career that are grouped because many of the people in them share similar interests and strengths. All pathways include a variety of occupations that require different levels of education and training. This video features six possible Career Pathways that reveal opportunities to students across Iowa. Agriscience/Natural Resources; Arts & Humanities; Business/ Information Management/ Marketing; Engineering/Industrial/ Technological Sciences; Family/Human Services; and Health Services.

Getting the Job Done, 1994. 14:25 minute video and guide. In this video a number of specific nontraditional occupations are highlighted. A basic description of what nontraditional jobs and training entails helps women envision themselves in these occupations. Although the women highlighted in the video are from Washington, DC, area, most of these nontraditional jobs are available in communities around the country. Jobs highlighted include: Cable Auditor, Carpenter, Computer Repair Mechanic, Electrician, Maintenance Worker, Train Mechanic, and Truck Driver.

Women Working, 1994. 28 minute video. This video describes the advantages of trade and technical jobs for women. It shows Maine women working in nontraditional occupations and illustrates how they chose their careers and what they like about their work. “Women Working” includes a history of American women in the labor force and explains why our culture has designated some jobs as “men’s jobs” and others as “women’s jobs.”

Career in Transportation: A Counselor’s Guide to the Best Jobs,1998. This guide book is designed to be used by counselors, instructors and students in planning and choosing careers. It contains 5 sections that can be used independently or together. 1. Transportation Occupations in California; 2. Qualifications and Training includes three detailed tables to help math students and job seekers to jobs, training and skills; 3. Best Jobs in Transportation; 4.Employers; and sources lists the references.

School –to-Work Resource Kit, 1995. JTPA and Iowa Western Community College cooperated in developing a job shadowing pilot program. The experience provided by area businesses allowed youth and teachers to become active participants in the world of work. The job shadowing curriculum has been developed to provide students with lessons and activities that will: explore careers; discover available career options, logically select one suited to them, make arrangements to job shadow for a day, shadow a worker who will allow the student to shadow him/her through a typical workday, view adult role models in careers, follow-up with student reports, and establish school-to-work relationships.

Yes, We Can!, New Jersey Career Equity Assistance Centers, 1997. These are a set of 12 career cards depicting male and female role models: electrician, commercial driver, diesel engine mechanic, law enforcement officer, engineer, robotics technician, computer equipment technician, computer systems analyst, certified nursing assistant, child care worker, broadcast technician, and office technologist. Each card describes training, employment outlook, and earnings for that career.

Careers 2000: Career Colors and NJ Careers 2000: Exploring Your Future,New Jersey Career Equity Assistance Centers, 1997. Purpose of the Careers 2000 workshop is to : explore your career interests and create a career plan, recognize gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in career selection; identify career areas nontraditional for your gender; understand the importance of taking mathematics and science courses; learn about school to work opportunities, and identify career planning resources.

EntreLearning: Resource Manual 1995-1996,CEDA#6, Oshkosh, WI. A comprehensive educational program designed to infuse entrepreneurship into the classroom.

Alaskan Women in Science and Technology, Marian Allen, Alaskan Equity Publication 1996. The curriculum aims to present material that a non-technical, non-science teacher can use to introduce middle and high school students to several areas of science and technology. Hands-on activities are included to encourage teachers and students to explore different types of science fields. Audio interviews with biographical information on six Alaskan women, fisheries biologist, geophysicist, linguistic anthropologist, marine mammal and wildlife biologists, and community health aide.

Mariposa: A Workbook for Discovery and Exploration, MariaElena Fernandez, CA Dept. of Education, 1995. This guide is designed to facilitate your use of Mariposa. Mariposa has several primary goals: 1). Encourage self-awareness and self-esteem; 2). Encourage active participation in life-planning and decision-making; 3) provide strategies for effective communication; 4) increase awareness of career options; 5) provide opportunities for positive community and peer leadership roles.

Mariposa – Challenging the Future, Connections Leadership Project, 1996. Length: 15 minutes. Mariposa Project groups throughout California discuss reality and how Mariposa has changed their lives by encouraging them to reach for their goals and the strong support group that is formed.

Mariposa: A Workbook for Discovery and Exploration Program Guide, Mariaelena Fernandez, 1995. This guide is designed to facilitate your use of the Mariposa curriculum.

Multicultural Women of Science: Three Centuries of Contributions, Leonard Berstein, Linda Zierdt-Warshaw, Alan Winkler, 1996. A serious classroom instructional text that fills the void in almost every science curriculum by documenting the major impact women have had on all scientific fields, including Life Science, Medicine, Earth and Space Science, Chemistry and Physics, and Environmental Science. Teacher’s Guide included.

Africian and African American Women of Science: Biograsphies and Hands-On Activities and Experiments, Leonard Berstein, Linda Zierdt-Warshaw, Alan Winkler, 1998. This book explores the work of 15 African American women from such diverse areas of science as medicine, pharmacy, physics, biology, engineering, chemistry, environmental science, etc. Each chapter has components covering the life and contributions of the individual scientist; chronology of important events; detailed geography, definition of key vocabulary words; hands-on lab experiments; think Work Act question section; Going Further providing a variety of additional research activities. Teacher’s Guide included.

Latino Women of Science, Leonard Berstein, Linda Zierdt Warshaw, Alan Winkler, 1998. This book fills a gap in current science curricula by providing detailed biographies of 15 Latina women who have overcome overwhelming obstacles to make their marks in a broad range of scientific fields. Teacher’s Guide included.

16 Extraordinary Asian Americans, Nancy Lobb, 1995. This book features brief illustrated biographies of men and women who have had a dynamic impact on life and culture in the United States.

Heroes Don’t Just Happen: Biographies of Overcoming Bias and Building Character, Rose Blue and Corinne Naden, 1996. Level: reading level Grades 2-5. Interest Level: Grades 4 – adult. Each book in this high-interest, low-reading level series consists of biographies of five famous personalities from various ethnic and cultural background. Accompanied by a personal practice journal, this unique approach captures student interest by teaching reading comprehension accompanied by personal expression. Students reinforce reading skills, increase vocabulary, sequencing, and comprehension skills and are encouraged to think and write about goals, values, and beliefs through guided writing and journal activities. Teacher’s Activity Guide included with each series. Series include: Sports, Entertainment, Space, Business and Politics.

The Role of the United Nations in the Advancement of Women: Toward a Partnership World, United Nations Association of the USA and the United Nations Association of Iowa, 1993. The purpose of these lessons is partly to have learners learn about the various programs within the United Nations that empower women. The purpose is also to have them understand the basic issues facing women, and create scenarios, visions, and strategies for the future. The individual activities can be used as exercises within the teaching of broader units within a modern American history, modern world history, sociology, psychology, or problems of democracy course, or an be used together to form a sequence of stand-alone lessons on the changing roles of women, on the United Nations, on social change or on contemporary issues.

An American Aviator: Willa Brown, Learning Garden, Inc., Length: 27:49 minutes. Level: Upper elementary to adults. This is a well made documentary highlighting Willa Brown ( a black female aviation mechanic and pilot) and blacks in aviation. Actual pictures and footage is shown from the late 1920’s through World War II. In 1939 Senator Harry Truman passed the bill that allowed blacks to participate in pilot training. They trained at Coffee School of Aeronautics in Harlem, Illinois. Black contributions ended segregation in the military after the war.

Encuentros : Hombre A Hombre, Dr. Francisco Reveles, CA Dept. of Education, 1998. Level: Junior High – High School Latino males. Puro Hombre, Being a Man is a phrase most young Latino males have encountered at one time or another in their lives as they approach manhood. How they eventually conceptualize its meaning on an individual and collective basis will have profound and far-reaching implications for success in life. This life management and career planning workbook has been conceptualized and developed in order to educate, motivate, and challenge young male Latinos to develop the skills and strategies critical for the school to work transition. Students will also meet role models from around the United States in this book as well as be introduced to careers, which are nontraditional for Latino Men.

The Encuentros: Hombre A Hombre Art Collection,Connections Leadership Project, 1998. Nine prints of Latino Males ( Abre Los Ojos – Open Your Eyes; My Reflection; Dreams to Visions; Man of Steel Heart of Gold; Seeking Inner Peace; Heart and Soul; Meal Time; Get Involved- Do the Right Thing!; and Career Planning. These could be used with the book Encuentros: Hombre A Hombre.

Visions: Career Guidance and Life Management for African American Men, Ronald Johnson and Constance Gipson, 1996. Level: Junior High and High School African American Males. This is an excellent career guidance and life management book for African American males. The 10 Chapters deal with rites of passage in personal, historical; emotional; physical; spiritual; cultural; mental; economic; political; and social. Outstanding 72 role models for young men to meet are featured in this book.

Vision: Career Guidance and Life Management for African American Men, Connections Project, 5/98. Length: 15:26 minutes. Level: 7th – 12th African American Males. This video has Vision groups throughout California in urban and rural areas discussing the Vision program. They discuss how this program changed how they perceive themselves and their future. They discovered how ethic groups have things in common. They gained a higher self-esteem and were able to identify possibilities and options in their lives. Role models were very important in showing them other careers besides athletics and music. They developed pride in their culture and respect for others.

Elders II, Connections Leadership Project, 1996. Length: 37:18 minutes. This video highlights the lives of four successful African American men. They reflect on their lives, roots, careers, marriage, importance of family, religion, accomplishments and their experiences of discrimination. One was a single father who raised 4 children.

Generations: Our People Say…: A Life Management and Career Planning Workbook for Young Native Americans, Eddie Webb, CA Dept. of Education, 1998. This workbook allows the students to experience an indigenous connection to the land of the Americas. Students will appreciate the origins of several scientific principles. Unlike western civilizations that have been built from the male dominant perspective, many native societies have been built from the female perspective. A true sense of the qualities and values needed to be considered a man or warrior by the values determined by the native perspective is discussed. Chapters include: Coming from the Reservations; Native Americans in Urban Settings; American Indian Law; The Seven Generations; Ceremony, and Legacy and the Future. This workbook included role models for Native Americans.

Images: A Workbook for Enhancing Self-Esteem and Promoting Career Preparation Program Guide, Mattie Evans Gray, CA Dept. of Education, 1988. Level: Grades 7 –12 Black girls. This is an individualized learning program guide to be used with the book Images that is designed specifically for Black girls. Its purpose is to involve students in positive learning experiences that will enhance self-esteem and increase their awareness of career options. The scope and Sequence Chart makes is easy for the mentor, teacher, or program coordinator to select learning activities suited to students’ individual needs.

Options: Making Connections in Today’s World, Michael Hanson, Connections Leadership Project, 1997. Level: Grades 7-12 white males. Options is written with young, European-American mean in mind. This book is about how to be successful. It’s about understanding you own and other people’s points of view. It’s about how to get a job and how to build a career. One of the points of this booke is that people are complex. We must respect each other. Many role models share their perspectives and ideas about life.

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