This teacher handbook provides recommended goals and objectives and suggested measures for the competency-based secondary home economics curriculum in North Carolina. The guide is organized in two sections. The first section consists of an overview of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and the competency-based curriculum. Information on the philosophy and rationale for the curriculum, effective teachers and schools, thinking skills, and programs for exceptional children as well as notes for users of the handbook are supplied. The second section contains the vocational education competency-based curriculum for home economics education. It provides information on the target groups, philosophy, design of the curriculum, course of study, learning outcomes, and scope and sequence. The competency goals for each subject area are listed on separate pages, related to objectives and measures for attaining each goal. The goals cover child care services, clothing and textiles, commercial foods, custom fashions and interiors, exploring home economics, foods and nutrition, home economics cooperative education, independent living, interior design and housing, parenting and child development, and teen living. Extensive appendixes provide information on the North Carolina Standard Course of Study, course requirements, testing requirements, and textbook adoptions. (KC)