A guide for administrators and teachers who want to identify life-role competencies and classroom instruction to match the competencies. (Author)

This publication outlines the framework of the social studies curriculum K-6 and provides a continuum for the knowledge and skills of the social sciences. It is designed to assist teachers, supervisors, and administrators in the improvement of social studies teaching and learning. The following information is provided for each grade level:…

Designed to help articulate vocational education student progress from one level of training to another and to employment, this electronics education guide lists competencies for soldering; performing basic operations with test equipment; servicing basic logic circuits; servicing DC power supplies; servicing solid state amplifiers; and servicing…

Designed to help articulate vocational education student progress from one level of training to another and to employment, this health occupations guide lists fifty-nine competencies for patient care and doctors' office work. The format for each competency is (1) task statement, (2) list of conditions and limitations for performance, and (3)…

Competencies for Articulation materials have been developed by public schools, an educational district, and a community college in Nebraska to help vocational education students progress from one level of educational training to another and to employment. Their progress is to be measured by "competencies," each of which has three parts:…

Designed to help articulate vocational education student progress from one level of training to another and to employment, this drafting guide lists competencies for a core curriculum prerequisite to all drafting areas and competencies for machine, architectural, and civil drafting. The format for each competency is task statement, list of…

This manual is designed to assist teachers in operating a school store as a classroom-laboratory for teaching marketing in the high school distributive education curriculum. The first part of the guide provides a rationale for competency-based instruction, introduces the cluster concept of organizing jobs in marketing and distributive education,…

This text is designed to present the major concepts of performance-based instruction for use by teachers, supervisors, and administrators. Chapter 1 discusses student expectations of instruction, including such topics as "Let Me Start Where I Am,""Tell Me What to Expect," and "Give Me a Test, but Don't Threaten Me." Chapter 2 defines effective…

This experimental curriculum bulletin, published by the Board of Education of the City of New York, contains lists of mathematics performance objectives necessary for pupil competency at each level (K-9). A short introduction explaining how the objectives should and should not be used, and a memorandum to community school board presidents,…

This teacher's guide on child development, care, and guidance is one of seven subject area guides developed for use in consumer and homemaking education in secondary schools in Texas. The guide is correlated with the "Conceptual Framework for Consumer and Homemaking Education in Texas." Content is based on the competencies needed by…

This compilation of program materials serves as an introduction to and overview of Florida's Brevard Community College's (BCC's) Competency-Based Adult High School Completion Project, which was conducted to teach administrators, counselors, and teachers how to organize and implement a competency-based adult education (CBAE) program; to critique…

This guide is a competency-based vocational curriculum designed to provide educators with viable ethanol (100 percent alcohol) engine conversion procedures stated in simple terms and set in a flexible educational environment. The curriculum is designed so that educators can form various combinations of instructional activities and resource…

This manual is a competency-based curriculum planning guide for nutritionists, dietitians, and foodservice specialists to use in conducting preservice and inservice training programs for foodservice personnel in Head Start, day care, and other preschool programs. After an introductory chapter, which states the purpose of the manual, defines…

This guide is intended to aid teachers in the instruction of radio and television repair by creating competencies that have been identified by the Electronics Service Industry and structuring them into progressive learning blocks. These competencies aid students on the job and also facilitate transferability of students between programs in…

This first volume of a comprehensive curriculum guide for the heating-ventilation-air conditioning-refrigeration-solar student is designed to assist high school area vocational centers or community college instructors in the implementation and operation of comfort training programs. Following an introductory section, the guide provides job…