ARM 10.58.515. INDUSTRIAL/TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

(1) The program requires that successful candidates: (a) demonstrate knowledge of a curriculum and curriculum design consistent with current national and Montana standards, including: (i) a mission statement with stated goals and objectives that reflect the intent of industrial/technology education programs, as guided by national professional organizations; (ii) an organized set of concepts, processes, and systems that are technological in nature; and (iii) content orientated toward technology education (TE) or industrial technology (IT); (b) demonstrate knowledge of content area(s) in which the candidate teaches, including: (i) fundamental knowledge about the development of technology, its effects on people, the environment, and society; (ii) information about industry's organization, personnel systems, techniques, resources, products, and social impacts; (iii) communication technology, which includes information-related technology that uses resources to transfer information and to extend human potential; (iv) construction technology, which includes physical-related technology that uses resources to build structures or construct work on site; (v) manufacturing technology, which includes physical-related technology using resources to extract and convert raw/recycled materials into industrial and consumer goods; (vi) transportation technology, which includes physical-related technology using transportation technologies to maintain contact and exchange among individuals and societal units through the movement of material, goods, and people; and (vii) identification of a level and scope of entry level skills in the use of tools, instruments, and machines necessary for successful teaching; (c) demonstrate knowledge of quality workmanship; (d) develop insight and understanding in the application of technological concepts, processes, and systems; (e) develop and demonstrate skills in utilizing tools, materials, machines, processes, and technical concepts relative to content organizers, safely and efficiently; (f) demonstrate skills, creative abilities, positive self-concepts, and individual potentials relating to technology; (g) demonstrate problem-solving and decision-making abilities involving human and material resources and technological processes and systems; (h) demonstrate activity-oriented laboratory instruction that reinforces abstract concepts with concrete experiences; (i) demonstrate knowledge and skills regarding how technological systems function and the attitudes to evaluate those systems; (j) demonstrate knowledge of past, present, and future technological systems by applying knowledge and skills developed in the study of other systems; (k) apply and use other content knowledge (e.g., mathematics, science, history) to technology to solve individual and social problems; (l) introduce career opportunities in industrial/technology and related fields and encourage and advise students about postsecondary options; (m) demonstrate knowledge of educational environments in the classroom and laboratory that enhance student learning; (n) select and apply appropriate instructional strategies for individual and group instruction; (o) demonstrate knowledge of and apply laboratory management skills (e.g., maintaining inventory, filing, requisitioning equipment and materials, maintenance, and budgeting); (p) develop and use lesson plans and organize materials to meet the learning needs of students; (q) develop and implement classroom management consistent with school policy; (r) demonstrate the development of personal and leadership competencies (e.g., citizenship, personal development, goal setting, parliamentary procedure, and teamwork); (s) articulate industrial/technology education to school and community publics; (t) develop and coordinate an external advisory committee for the program; (u) demonstrate knowledge of how to gain access to services and financial resources available from state and federal agencies and operate within applicable laws and regulations governing education; (v) develop students' abilities to search, access, retrieve, synthesize, and apply information; and (w) provide opportunities for students with work-related experience useful for employment entry after graduation.