Competency Based Teacher Education (CBTE) proposes changes in the traditional teacher education system, which include establishing behavioral objectives for student teachers and modifying basic teaching tools that all students must learn to master. CBTE also proposes that teachers colleges be conducted without failure. Critics of CBTE question the…

The author criticizes the trend in American education to establish performance-based behavioral objectives. The objectives become a means for teacher accountability thus fostering teaching for a test and destroying teacher creativity. Curricula are strangled by objectives, performances, and tests imposed by administrators. (MR)

This is the third in a series of four booklets describing the Child Development Associate (CDA) Project at the California State College in Pennsylvania, one of the 13 original CDA pilot programs. This booklet describes a self-assessment program to be used as a stimulus for the development of a training plan and includes the following sections:…

Competency-based instructional programs are being discussed in many, and enacted in some, educational districts. Reports of this process from Oregon, California, and Ohio are included among the 12 entries in an annotated bibliography. All entries are from the ERIC system. (MLF)

The research of Hebert, with regard to the competencies that teachers of beginning typewriting should have, is translated into a format thought to be useful to the teacher educator. A list of performance goals and objectives that might be used in typewriting methods program is included. (Author/HD)

Part 8 of a series of 13 instructor's manuals for the competency based training of curriculum consultants for exceptional children focuses on the development of materials and media. Three competencies are considered: (1) that a curriculum consultant should be capable of providing direction in the development of teacher made instructional…

Part 6 of a series of 13 instructor's manuals for the competency based training of curriculum consultants for exceptional children focuses on the development of curriculum. Three competencies are considered: (1) that a curriculum consultant should be knowledgeable of basic principles of curriculum development and instructional theory, (2) that a…

This competency-based teacher education cognitive development module consists of a curriculum building component. Enabling elements of the module encompass writing behavioral objectives, classifying objectives by criteria type, designing flow charts, developing assessment procedures, specifying enabling activities, and outlining module and…

Part 7 of a series of 13 instructor's manuals for the competency based training of curriculum consultants for exceptional children focuses on the development of instruction. Four competencies are considered: (1) that a curriculum consultant should be capable of developing a familiarity with the current literature on institutional practices for…

This module on applying curriculum specifics to vocational education is one of a set of four on stages and structure of curriculum development and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules comprising a core curriculum intended for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home…

Part 1 of a series of 13 instructor's manuals for the competency based training of curriculum consultants for exceptional children focuses on the evaluation of curriculum. Three competencies are considered: (1) that a curriculum consultant should be capable of providing leadership in designing and implementing and evaluation approach to curriculum…

Part 12 of a series of 13 instructor's manuals for the competency based training of curriculum consultants for exceptional children focuses on training teachers and administrators in the selection of materials and media. Two competencies are considered: (1) that a curriculum consultant should be capable of training teachers and administrators in…

The faculty of the Division of Instructional Systems and Learning Resources at the University of Utah is developing a model for a competency-based curriculum in instructional media and technology. The group first defined the roles of the instructional technologist at different educational levels and then delineated appropriate functional…

This sixth in a series of eight learning modules on professional role and development is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers preparation for working as cooperating teachers. Focus is on the purposes of laboratory or clinical experience in the teacher education program and on skills needed for planning meaningful…