The Council on Technology Teacher Education (CTTE)'s 2011 yearbook is its sixtieth, making the series one of the longest-lived of its kind in the US. The yearbook series was founded in part to demonstrate the intellectual maturity of the field; today professionals in the field affirm its "uninterrupted tradition of scholarly excellence and…

An increasing variety of professional educational and training disciplines are now problem based (e.g., medicine, nursing, engineering, community health), and they may have a corresponding variety of educational objectives. However, they all have in common the use of problems in the instructional sequence. The problems may be as diverse as a…

Discusses the need for and outlines a program to prepare special teachers of industrial arts for disadvantaged youth in terms of today's problems. (GR)

The author describes the tenets of the Holmes group report and discusses how it relates to industrial teacher education. (JOW)

discusses the need for evaluating industrial teacher education departments in light of generated costs within a department and departmental activities through cost analyses, graduate subject matter competence, pedagogical prowess, and staff evaluation. (GR)

A study of the efficiency of methods used to recruit industrial arts students concluded that (1) more effort should be made to increase underrepresented populations; (2) industrial arts teachers should be cultivated as recruiters; and (3) personal interests, hobbies, and exposure to secondary school industrial arts strongly influence career…

The national study sampled 227 public and private colleges and universities which have programs of industrial teacher education. Usable returns were received from 176. Four-fifths of the document consists of a tabulated display of questionnaire responses. The opening section of the document briefly outlines the need for information, sources of…

To instruct prospective and practicing industrial education teachers to be resourceful in the classroom, the utilization of all available resources and scrap materials for constructing various models and material testing devices for industrial education classes is discussed. (LH)

Industrial teacher education students and faculty were surveyed to determine the extent to which professionalism was being taught. The 111 student and 119 faculty respondents indicated that, despite considerable faculty involvement in professional activities, topics of writing skills, program evaluation, research, and institutional involvement…

The purpose of this research was to identify factors that contribute to the decision to enroll in an industrial arts teacher education program. (Author)

Seeks to create an awareness of the alternatives that exist for entering the teaching profession and alternatives to the traditional teacher education institutions. (JOW)

Identifies six obstacles to change, discusses innovative curricula and their impact on the changing role of the teacher, and lists teacher education and professionalism as two plausible solutions to help bring about educational change. (GR)

San Jose State College in California has special features in its course for industrial arts teachers. Ralph C. Bohn, Chairman of the College's Department of Industrial Studies, describes the course and the reasons for its special character. (Editor)