Designed to provide direction for those who contemplate establishing a competency-based program for vocational teachers, this monograph contains major papers developed for the Institute on Competency-Based Teacher Education for Virginia Vocational and Technical Teacher Educators held in Blacksburg, November 23-26, 1975. Also included are two…

Since 1968 there has been a growing trend toward recognition of a uniform unit of credit for continuing education programs, the Continuing Education Unit (CEU). This study investigates the development of the CEU since 1968 and identifies trends in its application to the selected professions of Law, Medicine and Teaching in the state of Virginia.…

A project described and examined the status of secondary trade and industrial (T&I) education in Virginia and made recommendations to improve such programs. Statewide enrollment data were retrieved for the school years 1986-87 through 1992-93. Questionnaires gathered concerns and recommendations of public school personnel about T&I…

This report presents four presentations made at a workshop which was held in Richmond, Virginia, to assist teacher educators to better prepare vocational teachers for competency-based instruction. The first presentation, "The Promise of Competency-Based Vocational Education," summarizes the contemporary curricular movement toward…

This report describes a concept for providing innovative opportunities for Virginia students identified as gifted in the technical arts or other areas. The approach unites the areas of vocational education, programs for the gifted, and career education and guidance in a partnership to: encourage gifted students to pursue offerings in vocational…