This booklet, the fourth in a series of eight reporting on the tenth-cycle Teacher Corps program conducted by the University of Nebraska and the Lincoln Public School System, describes the rationale behind the selection of a competency-based teacher education format as major program emphasis and the development of twenty-three recommended…

This module is designed to help the Child Development Associate (CDA) intern view early childhood programs in relationship to the community as a whole. Objectives are stipulated, activities for achieving each objective are suggested, and an assessment checklist is provided. A study guide emphasized (1) the importance of community understanding and…

A project was undertaken to create a substantial data file containing multiple measures of learner attainment information in order to provide alternative models for teacher preparation effects through regression analysis. A general description of both the performance-based secondary-level teacher education program at Texas A & M University and the…

This module on instructional strategies is one of a set of three on curriculum design in vocational education and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules intended as a core curriculum for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial education. Following…

This module on the development of a research proposal in vocational education is one of a set of five on evaluation and research and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial…

The document is an evaluative final report on ten modules designed to teach specific instructional skills to teachers of the educable mentally retarded. The first chapter of the four-chapter report gives an overview of the study and a description of the modules. Chapter 2 explains the four-phase evaluation design: phase I, initial evaluations;…

The University of Missouri College of Education and the Columbia Public Schools implemented an alternative program for the preparation of elementary teachers. The program, Humanizing, Individualizing and Personalizing Education (HIP), is offered over a three-year period, and correlates a field experience with university classroom activities. Each…

The purpose of this project was the development of a competency-based, field-centered elementary mathematics education program. Major goals, objectives, and competencies were identified and validated. Six global goals related to elementary mathematics teaching were developed: (1) philosophy of learning and psychology of teaching, (2) preparation…

Previous research in locus of control (LC) suggested the hypothesis that internal Ss should perform better under mastery than under traditional assessment procedures, while the reverse should be true of externals. Two experiments were conducted using undergraduate and graduate Ss. Neither the LC nor the assessment procedure main effects were…

During the past year and a half, the University of Toledo has developed a competency-based model for teacher education, the basic elements of which are (a) the explicit statement of performance objectives, (b) one or more sets of instructional procedures specifically designed for attainment of each objective, and (c) criterion-referenced…

This position paper summarizes the views of the 12-member Day Care Task Force to the Child Development Associate (CDA) Consortium, following a series of colloquies held by the task force on topics related to staff training and assessment in the day care field. Topics covered are: (1) definition of day care for children, (2) specific competencies…

The primary focus of the study is an instrument (developed in the public school setting) entitled, "Professional Teaching Competencies," which clusters interrelated planning and implementation competencies around instructional roles of the teacher. The concept, "Stages of Mastery," is used as the evaluation method. The study summarizes data…

This report evaluates the effectiveness of a module for classroom teachers. The development of this module was an attempt to assist teachers in functioning more effectively in the education decision making process. This module focused on teacher participation and roles in teacher education programs and gave special attention to competency based…

School based teacher educators are specialists in instructional improvement and facilitators of teacher learning whose primary base of operation is the elementary or secondary school. The role of the clinical instructor is both supervisory and facilitative and requires that the instructor constantly conceive, implement, and evaluate changes in…

A systems analysis model was developed as a conceptual framework for a program for teacher education in the fields of mathematics and science. The model related teaching competencies which had been identified previously by the researchers. The purposes of the research reported in this paper were to determine interrelationships among the…