The competency-based approach is used in teaching educational measurement during a five-week summer session. (SK)

The purpose of this development phase of a larger project entitled "Development of Competency-Based Instructional Materials for Local Vocational Education Administrators" was to field test and revise prototypic competency-based administrator instructional packages. A search was conducted to identify currently available competency-based…

This module, one in a series of 127 performance-based teacher education learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers, deals with developing a lesson plan. Discussed in the first section of the module are the individual parts of the lesson plan and the way in which they fit together. In order to complete…

This document provides a final report of a workshop convened to develop instructional packages in classroom management, orientation to teaching, and mathematics assessment. Included are: (1) a list of conference participants; (2) overview of teacher education and the use of laboratory schools; (3) an overview of the Cooperation in Teacher…

This guide is designed to present and deal with the major concerns of all those responsible for evaluating, installing, and maintaining a performance-based teacher education (PBTE) program. It is also intended, in a wider sense, for all who are interested in exploring the potential of performance-based education at any level and in any subject…

This handbook is designed to assist teacher educators, curriculum specialists, and others involved in writing performance-based vocational teacher education modules. Module writing instructions are supplemented by fifty-eight sample illustrations. In the first of two sections the format for the components of the module is outlined. Then guidelines…

Presented in the sourcebook for the teacher educator is the Four-D model (define, design, develop, and disseminate) to be used for developing instructional materials for training teachers of exceptional children. Listed at the beginning of chapters are instructional objectives; included when appropriate are guidelines, checklists, and flow charts.…

Describes the instructional materials produced and distributed by the American Association for Vocational Instructional Materials (AAVIM), an interstate organization of universities, colleges, and state divisions of vocational education, not to compete with but to supplement state work. AAVIM also publishes performance-based teacher education…

Because of a documented need for more and better trained vocational education teachers, including those from industry, an alternative approach to teacher preparation, called performance-based teacher education (PBTE), was developed. PBTE is an approach to instructor preparation in which (1) the training program is based on the competencies…

To increase the supply of modularized instructional materials to meet the need for preservice and/or inservice education of professional vocational educators, the National Center for Research in Vocational Education and seven interested states organized in 1978 a Consortium for the Development of Professional Materials for Vocational Education. To…

This module is one in a series of 127 performance-based teacher education (PBTE) learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers. The competencies upon which these modules are based were identified and verified through research as being important to successful vocational teaching at both the secondary and…

This module is one in a series of six designed to help vocational educators develop skills needed to make use of the Vocational Technical Education Consortium of States materials and to develop and manage individualized instructional programs. Recommended for use by both pre- and inservice teachers and curriculum development specialist interns,…

This module is one in a series of seven focused on skills vocational teachers need to develop and manage programs that are performance-based and fully individualized. Designed to allow for individualization of a teacher education program, these modules supplement those prepared by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education for…