This manual provides program objectives for instructors teaching automotive technology courses in junior and senior high Department of Defense Dependents Schools. The manual begins with a description of the automotive technology courses offered in the Dependents Schools, and a list of instructor expectations. Following is the main part of the document, consisting of the program's general objective (the student will integrate the principles, theories, and skills of automotive technology), with 21 program objectives. Each program objective is correlated with several suggested instructional objectives and with each grade level for courses in exploratory power mechanics, automotive consumerism, introduction to automotive technology, and vocational automotive mechanics. The final section of the manual contains suggested facility layouts, with illustrations, for an auto mechanics laboratory. Appended to the document is a list of approved textbooks and instructional materials for the automotive technology curriculum, along with publishers' and authors' names, sources of materials, and names of the textbook review committees. (KC)