This study investigated whether a teacher professional development module built around designing WebQuests could improve teachers' technological and pedagogical skills. The technological skills examined included Web searching and Web evaluating skills. The pedagogical skills targeted were developing a working definition for higher-order thinking…

The CCSS is a set of standards released by the National Governors Association in 2010 and was adopted by 43 states (Common Core, 2015). The standards describe what students should know and be able to do in each subject in each grade. They are designed to be academically rigorous, while attainable for students and practical for teachers to teach.…

Written by experienced language educator Paula Patrick, this 96-page book offers detailed guidelines to help new classroom teachers gain confidence and direction as they begin their teaching careers. In addition to step-by-step strategies for everything from classroom organization to navigating Back-to-School Night, the book includes sample lesson…

This module is designed to help the learner develop a present process of delivery for a learning activity developed by the Florida Parent Education model. The module begins with a prospectus that explains the purpose of the Florida Parent Education Model and the reason for creating this module. Four enabling objectives are included, each of which…

This competency-based teacher education component emphasizes a systematic process that starts with the identification of a behavior unique to a learner and that ends with the identification of the cultural factors that cause the behavior. A sample module, diagnosing cultural behaviors related to the concept of family, is presented with an outline…

This module, one in a series of performance-based teacher education learning packages, focuses on a specific skill that vocational educators need in order to be successful in the area of instructional execution. The purpose of the module is to help educators identify the elements of a good lesson summary and gain the skills needed to present an…

This module, one in a series of performance-based teacher education learning packages, focuses on a specific skill that vocational educators need to be successful in the area of instructional execution. The purpose of the module is to give the teacher understanding of the characteristics of and techniques involved in effective oral questioning and…

This first in a series of ten learning modules on the establishment of cooperative education guidelines is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teacher-coordinators knowledge of the characteristics of cooperative vocational education and experience in developing criteria for screening prospective students and for evaluating…

This first in a series of eight learning modules on professional role and development is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers aid in learning how to keep up to date and in developing the attitudes and habits which will serve to keep them up to date in their careers as educators. The terminal objective for the module is…

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…

This seventh in a series of eight learning modules on professional role and development is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers who also serve as cooperating teachers competence in planning the total student teaching experience--planning appropriate activities for student teachers and developing plans for evaluating…

This module is one in a series of thirteen specifically designed to help vocational educators develop the skills needed to function as resource persons to learners enrolled in field-centered competency-based teacher preparation programs. (These learners are persons with appropriate occupational experience and competence who are being prepared as…

Career guidance techniques in this package focus on the competency area of testing. The package is one of eight, each covering one of the following career guidance competencies that were identified and validated as needed by teachers to assist in the career development of their students: Valuing, decisionmaking, lifestyle, community resources,…

Career guidance techniques in this package focus on the competency area of valuing. The package is one of eight, each covering one of the following career guidance competencies that were identified and validated as needed by teachers to assist in the career development of their students: Valuing, decisionmaking, lifestyle, community resources,…

Designed to instruct teachers in the construction and design of their own Learning Activity Packages (LAP), this article is itself an LAP, teaching LAP design through activities and instructional objectives. Journal availability: see RC 503 504. (SB)