Instructional programs to provide graduates of occupational programs from community colleges with additional occupational knowledges, skills, and teaching competencies will be developed at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (CAPSTONE) for 1974. Approaches planned are individualized student study programs, workshops to develop model programs,…

A project was conducted to adapt or develop and field-test an evaluation model for competency-based education, using Florida's Approach to Competency Based Individualized Teaching (FACIT) teacher-training materials for model development and field testing. Because of problems with the production of the FACIT materials, the field test of an…

Describes four approaches to competency-based staff development piloted in Texas during 1978 and 1979. These approaches to staff development are identified as (1) the pre-post workshop model, (2) the pre-inter-post workshop model, (3) the opportunities course model, and (4) the diversified training model. (CT)

When competency based teacher education programs involve student teaching, they may have as great an impact on changing practicing teachers' behavior as upon the student teacher. (PB)

This document is a handbook designed to clarify the goals and procedures of the secondary education program at Southwest Minnesota State College. The program is described as competency based, field centered, personalized, and systematically designed. It is stated that secondary education has caused special problems in that the competencies must be…

A comparison is offered between competency-based programs using a consortium model and field-based programs relying on teacher autonomy for use in teacher education programs. (JMF)

The diversity of geographic location and type of student in the Toledo diocesan school system have made it increasingly important for instruction to become individualized. Upon investigation of the system's needs and possibilities for change, a competency-based curriculum model was selected because it offered a structured, systematic, planning,…

Describes how Old Dominion University and the Chesapeake, Virginia, school system have cooperatively revived the "Chatauqua" model as a way of providing on-site inservice teacher education. (SJL)

The Lincoln, Nebraska, Teacher Corps' contracting process offers an effective model for team teaching, individualizing/personalizing instruction, and demonstrating both teacher and learner levels of competency. (JMF)

The purpose of this project was to develop and field test a model for delivering teaching competency instruction to inexperienced vocational teachers. An off-campus course was developed utilizing six individualized learning packages or modules based on 38 competencies considered most important for beginning teachers. Twelve teachers from the three…

Describes the development of the Self-Training and Evaluation Program (STEP), a performance-based professional development program for college instructors teaching in an individualized performance-based instructional system. The DACUM (Developing A Curriculum) model, consisting of a skill profile that serves as a curriculum plan and an evaluation…

Workshop proceedings in Fresno, California, concerning the development of the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education (MATCHE), a preservice home economics teacher education curriculum design, are presented in this report. Presentations from the workshop include unique and timely competency-based individualized…

Volume I of the final report of the Florida State University clinical teacher model, a diagnostic prescriptive approach to instruction of the mildly handicapped, describes the project's overview, background, objectives, and products. Reviewed are the historical trends toward individualized instruction and illustrated is the management network for…

This eleventh in a series of eleven learning modules on program planning, development, and evaluation is designed to assist secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in planning and conducting locally directed and product-oriented program evaluation. Introductory sections relate the competencies dealt with here to others in the program and…

A project studied the feasibility of delivering instructional modules via a computer-managed instructional system for preparing and certifying inservice vocational education teachers. The project developed a computer-based system to deliver and manage instructional modules, developed and field tested twenty instructional modules, and developed a…