A survey conducted to study the attitudes of industrial arts teachers toward conversion to metric measurement and their readiness to teach this system revealed that, despite some background and experience with metrics, 88 percent felt they were not ready to teach a lesson. (BP)

In order for industrial arts educators to determine the components required to enhance leadership, two major factors were studied: (1) the essential elements of creative leadership that are uniquely important to industrial arts educators; and (2) how these essential elements of creative leadership can be promoted and achieved by the profession.…

Industrial arts teachers can ease the transition to the metric system by encouraging students to think in metric terms through classroom exercises, projects, and making inexpensive publications available to them. Industry can be aided through seminars and short courses; and the general public will profit from window displays. (AG)

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)

Classroom teachers are researchers as they refine their programs based on a tested idea that improves student learning. Research that provides new directions for industrial arts often arises from a classroom instructor's recognition of a problem and search for a solution. (SK)

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

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…

Working on the assumption that paid outside consulting is a relatively common, respectable, rewarding, and desirable activity in which college and university faculty members engage, this study was designed to determine the frequency with which industrial educators of various academic ranks serve as outside paid consultants and assess industrial…

Many forces--legislative, administrative, bureaucratic, professional, private interest--influence curriculum change. Teachers should be the primary agents of curriculum change and must focus on meeting the educational needs of all students. (SK)

Describes research showing that black and white teachers of disadvantaged students working together to find better ways to help disadvantaged youth, can help to dispel the stereotype of distrust and fear among themselves and help to foster respect, liking, and understanding, which hopefully will be carried over to their students. (Author/MU)

Discusses ways in which an industrial arts teacher can become involved in guidance functions for the students' sake. (GR)

Latest films, filmstrips, and posters, which have become available since a similar list was published in "School Shop" in April, 1974, are listed and described. Source addresses and some proces have been included. (Author/EA)