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Show Vocational Conference To Begin Next Week Most of Utah's 1200 vocational education teachers tea-chers and administrators administrat-ors will be busy next week bringing themselves them-selves up to date on advances ad-vances made by industry indus-try that can be applied to their particular teaching teach-ing situations. Those teachers and administrators will be attending some 50 individual indi-vidual sessions of the annual Utah Slate Hoard of Education's Vocational Vocation-al Education Conference being held June 11-15 at Utah State University in Logan. The conference centers around "Curriculum for Career Goals" andisde- B signed to bring the latest H information and teaching I techniques to the in- t structors. The conference will begin with a short general gener-al session Monday morning morn-ing and then break up into more than 50 individual indi-vidual groups, each dealing deal-ing with a specific occupational oc-cupational area. According to Walter E. Ulrich. Administrator for the State Board's Division Di-vision of Vocational and v Technical Education, emphasis will be placed on the training of young people for employment. " Those participating will become more aware of the job market and trends ii) Utah." said Mr. Ulrich. Ul-rich. "We alsohope they will become more aware of the gap that exists between job entry skills gained through vocation- ' al programs and those I skills desired by employers." em-ployers." Mr. Ulrich indicated that another objective of ; the conference is to gain feedback from the in- ', structors for use in upgrading up-grading various vocational voca-tional education curri- ; cula. ', |