This paper presents the three year process used in developing a teacher evaluation model for the Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District. Based on Dr. Richard Manatt's School Improvement Model for Teacher Performance Evaluation, the purposes of the model were to improve teaching skills and to enable valid and reliable judgements concerning…

This fourth in a series of eleven learning modules on program planning, development, and evaluation is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers information and skills needed to ensure a properly organized occupational advisory committee. The terminal objective for the module is to organize an occupational advisory committee…

Refinement of planning, goals, and objectives was emphasized in the third year of the Professional Development Program at Lansing Community College. Goals for the overall college program were to: (1) continue to offer options for professional development which relate to people's immediate situation and department; (2) make more opportunities…

The articles in this collection present international perspectives on change and innovation in teacher education. It is divided into six topic areas. Part one offers views on the social and economic implications of teacher education. In part two the problems and challenges for reform in teacher education in East Africa, Poland, France, Italy, and…

Developed for use in short-range and long-range vocational planning, this competency-based self-instructional module for administrators has two general objectives: develop an original vocational administrative plan for a simulated area vocational technical school and submit the plan for approval (evaluation). The module is designed in the…

Provided is a competency based career ladder model (developed for Colorado) to enable universities and colleges to improve preservice programs for teachers of the moderately and severely retarded, and to aid state and local agencies in planning meaningful inservice programs. Administration requires cooperation of state groups such as the state…

This booklet is one in a series which describes a competency-based teacher education program developed by the staff of the Department of Vocational and Applied Arts Education at Wayne State University. This booklet discusses instructional systems and accountability, which are two important facets of the program. Part I describes a model of the…

This final report describes objectives, activities, and outcomes of a project to provide training to infant specialists employed within a total of 16 infant intervention programs in New York State. The project focused on the acquisition of skills necessary to provide services under Public Law 99-457. Training content and procedures were derived…

A comprehensive framework for coordinated training for all levels of early childhood development personnel employed in Texas child care centers is provided in the form of charts, tables, and indexes. Following the first section's brief overview of project activities, the second section presents chart 1, a job matrix showing responsibilities of…

Teachers who have been trained to work with normal young children (early childhood certification) or with older handicapped children (special education certification) are often unprepared to assume the multiple responsibilities of the teacher of preschool handicapped children. The purpose of this project was to address this need by implementing…

The third-year report of the regional staff development system of the Adult Competency Training Project (Project ACT) examines and evaluates the events, activities, and accomplishments of Individualized Training Programs (ITP), regional policy board meetings, staff and participant travel, and planning during FY 1974. Present and anticipated…

The developmental teacher competency checklist is designed to facilitate planning of individualized pre- and inservice teacher training programs for teachers of integrated classes of normal and handicapped students. The checklist, which is suitable for self-evaluation and for supervision, applies a five level rating scale to the following…

Designed to assist in implementation of an eight-module graduate curriculum to prepare specialists in vocational education curriculum development, this guide provides direction for utilization of the accompanying competency-based modules. Included are a statement of the nature of the vocational curriculum specialist advanced level training program…

This document is the course book of an accredited 3-day professional development course for qualified basic skills tutors in the United Kingdom who are interested in working in workplace settings. The course materials are organized into 17 sections grouped into 4 units as follows: (1) general concepts of workplace language, literacy, and numeracy…

This third in a series of eleven learning modules on program planning, development, and evaluation is designed to develop secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers' skills in analyzing, reporting, and disseminating community survey data. Introductory sections relate the competencies dealt with here to others in the program and list both the…