A shop instructor with 25 years of teaching carpentry and cabinetmaking shares his philosophy on running a productive shop, tying his theories to accepted principles of individualized instruction. (Editor/HD)

Discusses a study of the preservice and inservice professional development needs of industrial arts teachers in instructing the handicapped. (JOW)

A survey of 198 technology education teachers found 88 percent employed in high schools or junior high schools and only 3.6 percent under age 30. Greatest problems identified were increased academic requirements and lack of financial support. Greatest strengths were course content, staffing, and facilities. (SK)

As Technical education strains to find a niche in the educational market place, are teachers suffering from a crisis of confidence? How comfortable are they with the ever-changing curriculum, with the subjects they are teaching and the reasons why they are teaching them? The broadening of the Technical curriculum in secondary schools to include…

The push to prepare all students for college has resulted in the near disappearance of high school industrial arts courses. This trend is exemplified by California high schools' adherence to the University of California and California State University systems' prescribed courses, called the "A to G" requirements, which students must take…

This essay explores a series of discourses surrounding the images of the early twentieth-century stereoscope, focusing on Underwood & Underwood of Ottawa, Kansas, and the Keystone View Company, of Meadville, Pennsylvania. By publishing images of particular geographic areas and historical events, as well as compendium volumes that included…

Since industrial arts classes frequently include many students with special needs, teacher educators must prepare future industrial arts teachers for working with these students. (BP)

From its origins in manual training programs in the Nineteenth Century, industrial arts today, in South Carolina, is viewed as a necessary part of education for all students, with specific objectives in harmony with those of education in general. Industrial arts draws its content and methodology from industrial technology and the social…

Focuses on a realistic approach for generating new activity among industrial education programs. Topics included involve successful methods for approaching the private sector; advantages of involving professionals from industry; and an outline of an existing local program and guidelines to implement a similar type of program. (CT)

Because of aesthetic and technical demands, the industrial arts department is often the natural home for teaching film-making and film-study; a wide variety of resources are available to help the industrial arts teacher prepare himself well to be on the leading edge of the fastest-spreading curricular change. (AJ)

This article provides suggestions on supervision for department chairman. Topics included are teacher evaluation, departmental conferences, individual conferences, and helping the new teacher. (GR)

The current industrial arts program represents a collection of courses without a clearly defined set of sequential activities leading to an over-all goal. A program is needed which will be based on understandings and principles, rather than on tools, materials, and skill development. Based on a speech delivered at the 1968 annual convention of the…