This teacher's guide is designed to accompany the machine shop competency-based education curriculum for secondary students in West Virginia. It has been developed to facilitate use of the curriculum by instructors of machine shop programs. The teacher's guide contains the following material: an explanation of the curriculum and suggested usage; a list of competencies, by job title; job sheets; suggested tests; and a list of references to accompany the curriculum. The appendixes contain data and information on tasks currently performed and equipment used, as determined from a validation survey. There are also lists of additional tools and equipment used and tasks performed by respondents to the survey. The material is keyed to the 16 units of the student materials for the machine shop curriculum. Job titles covered by the competencies include machinist, electrical discharge machine set-up operator, numerical control machine operator, and machine shop supervisor (tool). (KC)