This guide is intended as a source book of policies, ideas, and suggestions for use by Manitoba division and school administrators responsibilities for planning, implementing, and monitoring courses in industrial arts, home economics, and vocational-industrial education. Presented in Section 1 is background on the development of vocational-technical education in Manitoba at the secondary level. Sections 2-7 discuss the following: unit-credit titles (technology education in the areas of vocational-industrial, industrial arts, and home economics); funding (categorical grant support for programs and unit-credits, replacement allocations, capital requests, and regulations); articulation (within schools, between schools, with colleges, with the apprenticeship branch, and with the workplace); programs (approval process, closures and alterations process, and unit-credits for programs); related academics; integrated concepts (employability skills, sustainable development, entrepreneurship, technology, and special needs programming). Listed in Section 8 are 10 documents that are considered important resources for technology education. (MN)