This paper reviews the history of American teacher training. The teacher education program provided by Pennsylvania State University, Capitol Campus is described as an example of a present-day American teacher education program. Objectives and means of implementation used at the University are described briefly. A four-item bibliography is…

This paper describes an innovative educational psychology program at Purdue University which attempts to build upon the students' own needs and interests. Each student is responsible for establishing a specific set of objectives for the semester. The objectives, which may be formulated independently of his instructor, are based on a booklet in…

Components of community schools were isolated from the literature, and the extent to which these existed in the community schools of Alberta was measured. None were developed to the extent suggested in the literature; however, scores were higher than comparable noncommunity schools. (KR)

Analyzes some of the causes for current skepticism about programs in educational administration and suggests several courses of action. (WM)

This monograph presents a general view of the results of implementation of performance-based teacher education programs (PBTE). Part I includes an overview of PBTE and a brief description of PBTE-oriented institutions selected by the PBTE committee. The overview concerns introductory information, the basic approach to implementation and an…

Author Lux takes issue with views of Howard Nelson in counseling a former student, Joe," to include pre-vocational and occupational content in his industrial-arts classes. (GB)

This paper reviews the current state of the art in competency identification procedures for competency/performance based teacher education (C/PBTE) programs within the context of an overall strategy to improve teacher education through the generation of knowledge about teaching and learning. Strengths and weaknesses of theoretical approaches, task…

Programs for the training of library technical assistants exist in more than 31 states of the United States and six provinces of Canada. Through the questionnaire developed to survey the status of these training programs a total of 134 have been identified: 118 in the U.S. and 16 in Canada. This directory of schools offering training programs for…

A program for individualizing bookkeeping instruction utilizing script/tapes, illustrations, assignment sheets, study guides, and problem and unit tests is presented. A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the program conclude the article. (AG)

The author describes a departure from the conventional high school programs and their credits. Lynchburg Learning Center is an effort to restore the spirit of learning in pupils who, under usual circumstances, would have become statistics in the dropout tables. (Editor/MF)

These guidelines for carrying out a teacher education and religion program were based on questionnaires filled out by the administrators of 15 pilot centers of the Teacher Education and Religion Project during the summer of 1956. The project was sponsored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Its basic objective was to…