These workshop materials consist of a presentation text and an audience handout designed to explain a system whereby trade and industrial education teachers can convert a traditional curriculum guide to a competency-based guide. Covered first are the differences between the traditional and competency-based approaches. The format of a traditional curriculum guide for trade and industrial education courses is described. After an outline of the traditional trade and industrial education curriculum guide as provided by Silvus and Bohn, areas of the plan requiring change in order to conform to the competency-based approach are enumerated and examined. Particular attention is paid to the following areas of the curriculum guide: physical characteristics of the course, unit (block) titles and clock hours, unit objectives, lists of job titles, lists of demonstration and information lesson plans, unit tests, and management materials. Presented in the audience handout are various components of a unit guide for a course in offset printing, including a list of job titles with performance objectives, a lesson breakdown, instructor's lesson plans, a sample instructor's rating scale, sample instruction sheets, a job sheet, an orientation safety test, a progress chart, and a format for learning modules. (MN)