Guide to VoCational Education Materials and

This guide was designed to help vocational education supervisors to link existing resources for program improvement with actual teacher practice. The guide has two general purposes. First, it provides information relating to the special resources available end-the challenges faced by vocational education teachers. Second, it helps in four prbblem areas that are of broad interest to teachers and adminiaprators: (1) how to iodate instructional products fitting a perceiv05 need; (2) how to. select,the best products available; (3) how tb choose among alternative ways thoge products Might be.disseminated to constituents; and (4) how to'help ensure that the produCts are used most effeCtively. The guide is,organized in four parts. Part 1.contains genekal information on how to use theiguide, how to find instructional producta, and how to disseminate instructional products. Impart-,, general, resources are liated by major curriculum areas-and by state. 'The-third part of the guide contains resources and references by the following program and topi