Author describes how students in the industrial arts shop at Chinook Junior High School, Seattle, can find their identity in the industrial arts environment and develop the ability to be self-sufficient, productive, and adaptable. (CB)

Project Occupational Versatility is a self-instructional industrial arts shop program designed to give junior high students responsibility for the selection, management, and evaluation of their projects. Student procedure, facilitation, and teacher procedure are described and a school shop floor plan is pictured. (MF)

Describes the Occupational Versatility program in industrial arts, involving a self-instructional school shop in which the learning system is student-managed, nongraded, upgraded, and team taught. This federally funded learning method has also been successfully applied to home economics and art education. Information sources for the teacher are…