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IMS is continually looking for ways to make the educational processes more effective, and to provide the teaching profession with cost effective and time saving materials and technologies.

TAKS Alignment for Trade & Industrial Education Systems
IMS provides TAKS Alignment documents for courses in Criminal Justice, Automotive Technology, Welding, and Construction Systems. The TAKS Alignment forms can be used to document the reinforcing of the foundation TAKS within the T&I curriculum, or modified to suit the teacher’s needs.
Construction-Maintenance Systems  
Personal & Protective Service Systems
Transportation Service Systems
Metal Technology Systems

Curriculum Alignment TAKS Toolkit
Curriculum Alignment TAKS Toolkit is a self-contained system for aligning T&I courses to the foundation TAKS. This kit gives T&I teachers the tools to demonstrate how their courses reinforce the foundation TAKS. Procedures for integrating foundation subjects, and hints for involving foundation teachers into the alignment process are included.

Rubric Toolkit for Trade & Industrial Education
The Rubric Toolkit is a set of guidelines for assessing student achievement.
Rubrics can be used to provide authentic assessments to supplement or replace traditional grading systems.

Trade and Industrial Education Facility Guidelines
Trade and Industrial Education Facility Guidelines provide information regarding the physical requirements for T&I instructional programs. This publication assists teachers, administrators, architects, and other professionals in building or converting T&I laboratories to train students in the knowledge, skills, and processes commonly found in today’s industry.

Program Advisory Committees Handbook
Program Advisory Committees Handbook assists career and technology teachers to select members, organize meetings, and perform suggested advisory duties. The higher the level of involvement and investment in education by our business and industry community, the greater the opportunity to bring about lasting improvements in education, and the greater the likelihood of significantly improving the workforce readiness of our youth.

All Aspects
All Aspects is an information sourcebook for assisting educators to organize T&I curriculum. The information can be implemented in various ways, is easily combined with Tech Prep and can serve as a bridge to unite school-based and work-based learning experiences. All Aspects facilitates integrating Foundation and Career & Technology Education, empowering students to make career and life choices, enabling students to adapt to technological change, and involving students in economic development.

Power in Partnerships - PowerPoint
Business and Education Partnership, George Arrants
Business Development Manager
Delmar Cengage Learning.
Advisory Committee - January, 20, 2009 TIVA Mid Winter

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