This Idaho instructor's guide lists tasks and enabling objectives, outlines instruction, and provides handout masters, overhead masters, and tests for intravenous therapy (IV) instruction for licensed practical nurses. Following an introduction and a list of criteria for successful completion of IV therapy courses, the document lists tasks and…

This engine performance (emission control systems) module is one of a series of competency-based modules in the Missouri Auto Mechanics Curriculum Guide. Topics of this module's five units are: positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) and evaporative emission control systems; exhaust gas recirculation (EGR); air injection and catalytic converters;…

During the 1990-91 school year, a study was conducted to determine a validated list of competencies (concepts and tasks) for use in curriculum development efforts for general marketing programs in Michigan. DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) was the occupational analysis procedure used to identify the competencies, job tasks, level of difficulty, and…

This curricular framework is designed to assist administrators and teachers in planning, developing, and implementing technology education programs in North Dakota. It provides a philosophical foundation and a broad outline from which educators may construct comprehensive school technology education programs. The materials will aid local school…

This curriculum guide, which was written to meet the mandate requiring all vocational programs in Texas to provide 30 classroom hours of instruction in entrepreneurship, is intended to introduce entrepreneurship as a viable career choice and foster an attitude conducive to success as an entrepreneur. Addressed in the individual units of the guide…

This document contains vocational education program courses standards (curriculum frameworks and student performance standards) for exploratory courses, practical arts courses, and job preparatory programs in public service education offered at the secondary or postsecondary level as a part of Florida's comprehensive vocational education program.…

This document contains the materials required for presenting an 8-day competency-based technology learning activity (TLA) designed to introduce students in grades 6-10 to advances and career opportunities in the field of laser technology. The guide uses a series of hands-on exploratory experiences into which activities to help students develop…

This curriculum guide is designed to support instruction in Oklahoma vocational cosmetology programs. The curriculum consists of 30 units of information and skills that are the foundation for students enrolled in cosmetology programs to become cosmetologists. Each of the instructional units includes some or all of the basic components of a unit of…

This guide contains the essential parts of a total curriculum for a one-year secondary-level course in shorthand. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: the advantages and basic tools and techniques of shorthand, pretranscription skills, the development of accuracy and speed in taking dictation, and the…

This curriculum guide, one of six modules keyed to the building maintenance competency profile developed by industry and education professionals, provides materials for a plumbing procedures unit of seven lessons. Lesson topics are: safety procedures, joining pipes, water systems, fixtures and appliances, maintenance and repair, drainage systems,…

This curriculum guide provides an outline for an eight-unit course to train automobile air conditioning and electrical system technicians. Each unit focuses on a duty that is composed of a number of performance objectives. For each objective, these materials are provided: a task, a standard of performance of task, source of standard, conditions…

This guide has been developed for the following reasons: (1) to identify the essential elements pertaining to each vocational home economics education course as mandated by Texas law, (2) to outline the competencies and subcompetencies to be developed in vocational home economics education classes, (3) to provide guidance to teachers for local…

This publication is one of a series of curriculum guides designed to direct and support instruction in vocational cosmetology programs in the State of Oklahoma. It contains seven units for the facial specialty: identifying enemies of the skin, using aromatherapy on the skin, giving facials without the aid of machines, giving facials with the aid…

This publication is one of a series of curriculum guides designed to direct and support instruction in vocational cosmetology programs in the State of Oklahoma. It contains seven units for the manicurist specialty: performing silk wrap, performing sculptured nail application, performing nail tip application, performing gel nail sculpturing,…

This guide contains the essential parts of a total curriculum for a one-year typewriting course at the secondary school level. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: alphabetic keyboarding, numeric keyboarding, basic symbol keyboarding, skill development, problem typewriting, ten-key numeric pads, production…