Describes how a middle school teacher has implemented the Standards for Technological Literacy. Illustrates the evaluation of each lesson by national and state standards and benchmarks and district, program, and course outcomes. (JOW)

Describes a plan for providing leadership to the field of technology education. Techniques include formation of an entrepreneurial task force with concrete goals to facilitate change. (CH)

Describes the development of the Assessment Standards for technological literacy, the second phase of the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. (JOW)

Describes the Gold Seal/Tech Prep program in Danville, Illinois, which includes a technology education concentration. The curriculum demonstrates why, because so many technology education courses were required for other core concentrations, it had to be an integral part of the new program. (JOW)

Describes how Minnesota implemented the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. Includes the timeline, rationale, potential activities and estimated costs associated with all phases, and steps for implementing the plan: investigate, replicate, integrate, and mandate. (JOW)

A school or district's technology education program consists of a series of courses that address standards. Recent trends (e.g., No Child Left Behind), administrative pressures to increase student achievement, or the school's desire to align with standards, challenge the technology education teacher to implement new courses into the technology…

Discusses the design and implementation of programs to prepare the technology education teacher of the future. Teacher educators can review and implement trends in the philosophical and curricular development of the profession and move into meeting the trends of curriculum innovation in secondary schools. (JOW)

Processing of the three major groups of modern glasses is described. Low-melting-point glasses and the roles of their ingredients are discussed. Other processes (calcining, melting, fining the batch, annealing, testing for stress, colorants) are explained. Finally, a secondary-level pilot program for glass technology is suggested. (CT)