This guide is intended to assist administrators, curriculum directors, and teachers throughout Illinois in assessing and revising their current industrial technology education programs. The first section discusses the rationale behind the Illinois state plan for industrial technology education and lists the program's overall goals and objectives. The Illinois state plan for technology education, beginning at the elementary school level and proceeding through the middle school level to high school, vocational center, and community college and university programs, is outlined. The next section contains a more detailed description of the program of technological studies that has been planned for grades K-5. The next three sections detail the following levels in the Illinois program: exploring industry and its technologies (grades 6-8), orientation to industrial technologies (grades 9-10), and preparation programs, which focus either on preparing students who intend to seek postsecondary training in a technical field or for students who wish to become gainfully employed or advance in an industrial-related occupation (grades 11 through adult). The seventh section presents step-by-step guidelines for implementing the state plan, beginning with deciding whether or not to adopt the program model, comparing an existing program with the model, and developing a program improvement plan. A section describing various types of program development resources concludes the guide. (MN)