This article briefly describes Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA), a national association of local vocational education clubs for students in high schools and community colleges. It also describes the state-level VICA Leadership Conference and Skill Olympics contest held in Burlington County, New Jersey. (SJL)

New Jersey has long been a leader in vocational-technical education and support by the State government continues. The Nation's education system fails to prepare young people for careers; it costs us $28 billion a year to "educate" them for potential failure. Career education offers a new approach. Made up of five overlapping levels,…

This annotated bibliography includes about 400 books which are suitable for use in elementary industrial arts. These books, available in the state library system of New Jersey, are organized under 50 topics such as: (1) Automation, (2) Graphic Arts, (3) Machines, (4) Space Travel, and (5) Tools and Measuring. Most of the citations are children's…

Abstracts which reflect a cross section of the anecdotal records made during two-6-week inservice teacher education institutes are presented. The institutes were designed to help elementary teachers combine technological activities with regular academic lessons for children in kindergarten through grade 6. Each of 38 teachers observed one child,…

Describes an integrated metal-plastic program which was incorporated into an industrial arts curriculum at Trenton State College (New Jersey). (TA)

This document is a chronology of activities and accomplishments of the New Jersey Commission on Technology Education (COTE) since its inception in 1984. It is intended to provide interested education leaders with information on COTE's management structure and activities that they may want to adapt and adopt. COTE is a statewide coalition of…

In 1984 the vocational studies department of a New Jersey high school transformed its industrial arts program into a technological studies department designed to prepare students for college and emerging job markets. A high technology laboratory with sophisticated energy, communications, computer, and video equipment was created to accompany this…

The authors describe the work of New Jersey's Commission on Technology Education to heighten curiosity and awareness of technology and to develop a K-12 technology curriculum. The New Jersey Technology Education Model is presented and course content is described. Planned future activities are listed. (CH)

Two small communities in New Jersey, Peters Valley and Salem, are restoring old buildings and crafts with funds from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and other public and private agencies. Activities of resident craftsmen, interns, visiting experts, and CETA workers in both communities are described. (MF)

These three papers were delivered as part of a conference panel that was intended to alert advisory councils to the precarious situation of vocational education in the United States today. The first paper, "Crisis Issues in Vocational Education and Training" by Charles R. Doty, makes a case for establishing a program to finance full-time…

Policymakers and educators agree that technology education is crucial to the development of a technologically literate society that can compete successfully in the world of the 21st century. Technology education is the study of: the application of adaptive systems, including tools, capital, materials, processes, energy, information, and people;…

Intended for use in a 1-year curriculum in an area vocational high school, this student manual for machine shop work with industrial metals contains 17 instructional units, each with a behavioral objective, related information, shop procedures, equipment and materials lists, and student worksheets. Developed by a regional group of teachers and…

This guide was developed to assist the teacher in planning, implementing, revising, or improving safety instruction in industrial arts classes in New Jersey, and has as its theme, "Safety Is Everyone's Responsibility." The guide is organized in seven major sections. The first section explains the purpose of the guide, outlines the…

The Industrial Arts Leadership Development Project was conducted to (1) provide inservice training for teachers to improve the quality of instruction and supervision; (2) provide inservice training for minorities and persons with limited English capability; and (3) provide leadership development for inservice teachers, service staff, and…