Instructional packages (PAKs) are effective in promoting vocational learning as they provide an organized procedure for delivering self-paced instruction to individual trainees on a personalized basis. Some of the advantages of PAKs are that they free an instructor from the role of full-time transmitter of skills and knowledge, reduce equipment…

This document is a companion volume to the paper "Resources for School Based Teacher Educators" and is composed of specifications of objectives, indicators of attainment, and assessment criteria for the twenty competencies outlined in that volume. Each competency is divided into a number of sub-competencies, for which behavioral…

This report results from a meeting between five teachers who wanted to (a) dicuss performance and behavioral objectives, (b) work together outside their teaching fields, (c) edit objectives written by one another, and (d) develop materials that could be used in writing them. Five sample objectives are given, each dealing with a different…

This module allows for an initial experience from which an inductive analysis will reveal elements of a learning module. The participant will then enter the planning phase for the development of module designing. This module is completed when the participant designs his own learning module. The module itself includes the following: a…

This 2-hour seminar is designed for institutions that have a traditional teacher education program but whose faculty or state department of education is considering a change towards performance-based teacher education. The materials required for this seminar include both readings and filmstrips. After completing this module, each participant…

This student guide is a learning packet that is intended for use as part of the regular auto mechanics curriculum and that provides the information necessary to convert a gasoline engine with a minimum of modifications to successfully be operated on ethanol alcohol. Contents include an introduction, objectives, procedures, list of tasks to be…

This student module on materials handling is one of 50 modules concerned with job safety and health. It presents the procedures for safe materials handling. Discussed are manual handling methods (lifting and carrying by hand) and mechanical lifting (lifting by powered trucks, cranes or conveyors). Following the introduction, 15 objectives (each…

A sample of behavioral objectives and related test items that could be developed for content modules in Home Economics levels I and II, this book is intended to enable teachers to construct more valid and reliable test materials. Forty-eight one-page modules are presented, and opposite each module are listed two to seven specific behavioral…

This learning module is intended to assist outpatient professional nurses in teaching patients to measure and administer their own insulin and to deal with diabetic emergencies when out of the hospital. The instructor's information (presented in an appendix) includes an overview of the topics covered in the patient module, general directions for…

The development of instructional ability in workers already skilled in their own craft is a major feature of the Board's training policy. Training packages for this purpose are described, as are more recent developments of new methods for training and development at the management level. (SA)

This student module on fundamentals of electrical safety is one of 50 modules concerned with job safety and health. This module describes electricity and how it can affect the human body. Following the introduction, nine objectives (each keyed to a page in the text) the student is expected to accomplish are listed (e.g., Name five common…

One of 33 self-paced industry services leadership development (ISLD) modules, this module contains three sequential learning activities on developing performance objectives. (The industry services program for which these materials were developed would involve provision of job training by public agencies for new or expanding private industries.)…

Describes a revised curriculum that emphasizes auto-tutorial study through the use of a wide range of mediated learning materials. (Editor)

The Masters level Opportunities and Technological Innovation in Vocational Teacher Education project (project site: http://motivate.tmpk.bmf.hu/) aims to develop the use and management of virtual learning environments in the area of vocational teacher training, drawing on a well established international partnership of institutions providing both…