K-12 Course Goals in Industrial Education.

Overview & Synopsis

Outstanding teachers developed the collection of industrial education program and course goals contained in the document. Breaking from the traditional material orientation of industrial education, the authors developed a taxonomy of processes involved in the application of concepts. Although the collection provides concise statements of what students can know and can do in the major content areas of industrial education, and in the areas where it relates to values education, basic education, and career education, it will be necessary for the teacher to develop goals to instructional specificity. The taxonomy serves as a table of contents and forms an overview of the topics in the subject area. The course goals are coded for reference to industrial education program goals, career education program goals, and knowledge and process classifications, which form three additional indexes to the course goals. Printed in subject collections, the goals may also be grouped in and across subjects. A concept/value code provides further help in interdisciplinary planning. Computerization is in process to permit retrieval by any of the codes; a measurement product is also under development. (Eleven additional collections of course goals and two introductory volumes are available from the source cited.) (AJ)