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…

Observational data were collected on 10 industrial education student teachers in laboratory settings. Successful classroom management practices were judged as those in which a maximum amount of time is spent with students actively working on the tasks set by teacher. (SK)

Results of a survey of student teachers in technology education at the University of Georgia were intended to improve professional preparation classes. Students' primary concerns were discipline, student relations, adequacy of supplies, lesson plan preparation, and acceptance by nonvocational teachers. (SK)

Awareness of the role which personal characteristics play in career selection means that industrial arts teachers should select teaching methods which will help students to relate "self" to various modes of operations associated with kinds of careers. Super's eight career clusters, relating personality characteristics to career selection are…

The influence of a technocratic ideology in industrial arts education was examined through a critical study of a curriculum revision project. Qualitative methods of investigation were used to analyze and critique the curriculum revision process and product. Primary emphasis was on the curriculum meetings held to discuss and plan changes in…

An 8-week summer institute was conducted in 1967 by the University of Illinois College of Engineering to upgrade the professional competence of 24 high school drafting teachers from 15 states, and to estimate how many of such a group, after study in this and related programs, could successfully move into teaching technical institute level courses…

The industrial arts teacher can help develop more viable pre-vocational educational programs for students in the general school curriculum and also obtain additional funds for industrial arts programs. The relevant legislation is quoted and guidelines are offered to teachers wishing to help initiate such a pre-vocational phase in their schools.…

This is the first of several articles to highlight outstanding teachers. It presents a profile of Grier Yoder, graphic arts teacher and chairman of the vocational education department at Hunter Huss High School, Gastonia, North Carolina. Included in the profile are his development of facilities and students, and his many awards. (MF)

This article describes a project directed at preparing industrial arts teachers to better understand and teach students of different cultures, and contains segments detailing the background and how a mixture of national experts and public school officials provided direction for the project. It also describes how the materials to provide inservice…

An industrial arts teacher and textbook author reviews Learner Verification and Revision (LVR) in terms of problems its implementation poses for industrial educators. (TA)