This issue of the Multi-State Consortium for Performance-Based Teacher Education (PBTE) newsletter discusses (1) the evolutionary approach adopted by the state of Minnesota toward the implementation of PBTE, which includes discussion of what is known about PBTE, whether Minnesota ought (or wishes) to adopt the program, and state participation in…

Instead of engaging in the controversy over competency-based teacher education, this paper deals with a description of the implementation of the actual CBTE program, the problems of transition, and difficulties of operation. It is presented primarily as input for those involved in teacher education and contemplating a movement toward CBTE.…

A post-baccalaureate, single-subject program for future secondary school teachers is described. This program contains the following features: (1) it is operated by a team composed of a teacher education department leader, faculty from other departments, master teachers, administrators, community persons, and candidates for the teaching profession;…

This document describes the elementary education program to be initiated at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. It is an individualized, modularized, personalized program consistent with the competency-based mode. Requirements for entrance into the program and the expected skills, knowledge, and attitudes required for program…

This volume is the second of two documents concerning a performance-based undergraduate program for teacher education at Brooklyn College. Appendixes relating to the first volume are presented. These appendixes include position papers on teaching-learning centers, the campus media center, design for counseling services and affective education, the…

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 cooperative program for competency-based teacher education (CBTE) and individually guided education (IGE) operating in the Toledo, Ohio, area is described. Planning, development, design, and redesign processes of the program (which involves the University of Toledo, and public and private schools in the district) are surveyed. Nineteen forces…

A detailed explanation is given of the field-based component of the University of Toledo (Ohio) competency-based teacher education program. Locations for field-based experiences of program participants are spread throughout the Toledo area in twenty-two public and private schools following the individually guided education (IGE) model. Rationale…

The learning modules described are for the use of secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in all occupational areas. The modules are designed to develop specific competencies. The scope and sequencing of topics is outlined, and the activities and resources involved in the use of the modules are described. A critique of the program and…

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 inservice teacher education course described is for the use of elementary and secondary school teachers interested in understanding measurement and evaluation through Individually Guided Education. The scope of the instructional model and sequencing of topics are outlined. Activities and resources involved in using the modules contained in the…

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…

This paper presents an individualized model that assists inservice and preservice educators in attaining their professional goals in a continuing program of self-improvement. This model provides a structure that creates a theoretical framework that lends continuity to individual programs. It also presents a methodology of identifying individual…

The final report represents the 1974-75 preservice, teacher education component of the University of Michigan's Occupational Teacher Education Program. Begun July 1, 1971, and extended through August 31, 1975, the program utilized a competency-oriented approach to teacher training. The program was comprehensive and did not distinguish among…