The paper presents some of the findings of a comparative qualitative study conducted at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and University of Belgrade, Serbia. It discusses the findings related to the opinions and experiences of the university professors about the role of competences in the pedagogy study programmes. Competence-based approach has…

This paper explores the role of coaching in enhancing teachers' key competences for integrating Telecollaboration (TC) in their language course. A total of 23 secondary school teachers participated in this case study as part of the EU-funded project TILA. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered via two surveys, the first one measuring…

The concept of task has become central not only to an understanding of language learning per se, but also to the design and research of Online Intercultural Exchanges (OIEs). While research on the design of tasks in OIEs has been very productive, we still lack insights into how teachers develop competences in task design on the micro-level.…

In this presentation, we introduce a conceptual framework for in-service professional development--the Whole Teacher approach, which attends simultaneously to the attitudes, knowledge, and practice of a teacher's growth. Putting the framework in operation, we describe a project designed to improve teachers' competence and increase children's…

Competence-based teacher education provides new knowledge within the knowledge triangle of education, research and innovation. Communicative competence is of the greatest importance which individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment (European Commission, 2004). The successful…

This collection of articles presents some pros and cons of performance-based teacher education (PBTE). In the first article, Vincent Gazzetta presents a case for PBTE. He lists 12 areas of concern in teacher education and discusses five issues regarding concepts of competency-based systems. The issues are that a) the definition of competency-based…

Reading materials on the subject of competency based teacher education are cited in this bibliography. The listings include published works and documents available from ERIC. (JD)

The competency based teacher training program in special education at the University of North Florida is described. The program is said to revolve around 13 generic competencies, including establishment of rapport with the student, identification of student motivation, modality assessment, and evaluation skills. In addition to coursework, students…

This document, which provides a perspective in planning competency-based teacher education programs that is different and future-directed in its approach, is divided into three parts, the first of which is a presentation of Jantsch's model of teacher education. In this model teacher education is viewed in two dimensions: (a) horizontal,…

This brief description of the development of competency-based teacher education (CBTE) programs at the University of Toledo emphasizes the analysis of the kinds of competencies in educational technology most needed by preservice teachers and the interdisciplinary nature of the analysis. The two appendices which form the major part of the paper…

For a competency-based system of teacher certification to be feasible and fair, a valid and reliable set of measurement procedures must exist. There are four questions which must be answered before competency-based teacher certification can be validly implemented. The first question is, Should teacher or pupil behavior be used as evidence of…

The present controversies concerning competency-based/performance-based teacher education (CB/PBTE) are not new. The scientific approach to teaching, in the form of Herbartian theory, was prevalent at the turn of the century. At the same time however, Dewey's ideas on teaching the whole child and teaching as an art were beginning to enter into…

This paper looks at the issues and problems involved in the evaluation of competency-based teacher education programs. A major fallacy of CBTE programs is that they are based on the following implicit assumptions which have little theoretical or empirical support: (a) that there is much more agreement than the literature indicates on the goals and…

The paper describes a study of the practicum experiences for 39 participants in a diploma program for education of the hearing impaired at the University of British Columbia. Students were ranked according to 59 competencies in four categories (lesson planning, communication skills, classroom climate and behavior management, and professional…

Project THOR (Training Habilitators of the Retarded), a noncategorical competency based teacher training program, is described. The program is said to be developmentally oriented with emphasis on similarities as well as differences among children with labels. The inclusion of a series of vocational education modules into the program is described.…