This guide is intended to serve as Missouri's primary resource for planning, implementing, and evaluating industrial technology/industrial arts education. The following topics are covered: selecting a direction for industrial technology education (ITE) (its underlying philosophy, mission, goals); planning an ITE program (recommended scope and sequence for ITE, recommended courses for ITE, revision or updating of existing programs, steps in starting a new program, procedures for documenting the curriculum); implementing an ITE program (following current trends in ITE, updating existing facilities, planning new facilities, equipping an ITE program, maintaining laboratory equipment, implementing a safety program, informing key constituents); teaching ITE (planning instruction, selecting instructional materials, meeting individual and special needs, providing for equity, incorporating student organization activities, teaching employability skills); organizing and managing an ITE program (gaining access to key resource personnel, using advisory committees, organizing and managing ITE), evaluating ITE (evaluating program, student, and teacher performance); meeting professional responsibilities (ethics, pre- and inservice education, professional involvement); and using resources (the Missouri Industrial Technology Education Standards, the Missouri ITE Guide, recommended competencies for core courses). (MN)