Defines need, and needs assessment, and discusses guidance program planning to respond to needs. Offers a suggested procedure for needs assessment consisting of five successive class meetings with students focusing on five different objectives. Provides guidance program response examples. (RC)

The trends toward competency-based teacher education (CBTE) and its basic characteristics are described. The meaning of CBTE to the foreign language profession as a whole, to secondary school foreign language teachers, students preparing to be teachers, and college faculty is discussed. A model for program development is presented. (SW)

This third of four volumes of the final report on the Educational Laboratory Theatre (ELT) Project provides an on-the-scene account of the Project's history at its Los Angeles site, from the point of view of the school-system people involved. Useful to planners of future cultural programs in its presentation of the practical difficulties of…

The first part of a larger study of Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE), this report deals with the implementation of EBCE during its first operational year and identifies six major themes which emerged from visits to the four laboratories which developed EBCE and to 10 EBCE pilot sites. The themes, each presented in a different chapter,…