The Citrus County (Florida) Professional Orientation Program is designed to increase student learning by providing a set of supervised support services for teachers in the first year(s) of teaching that will assist them in their continuing professional development. The program provides for the development, demonstration, and documentation of…

A case is made for the use of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in Child Development Associate (CDA) training programs conducted on-campus in conjunction with an educational curriculum or conducted off-campus in conjunction with child care programs. The following points are made: (1) CAI can be used to supplement and amplify a teacher's…

Described in this synopsis are the results of a public opinion survey concerning Michigan citizens' attitudes toward findings of the final report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The survey was conducted during weekday evening hours between June 23 and 30, l983. A majority of respondents strongly favored most of the…

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…

States which mandate CBTE produce varied reactions in professionals. The range may be from the naive embrace of a panacea, tests in the courts, frustrated ranting and railing, demands for prior research, to a reasoned proposal. The authors offer the later. (Editor)

The characteristics, strengths, and limitations of competency-based teacher education are examined. The future of this approach to teacher education is discussed. (SD)

Indiana University Northwest is placing a substantial part of its teacher education program in the schools and communities where its students eventually will be employed. The professional semester is a competency based program organized into a number of modules each of which is planned to develop a different skill. (Author)

This article discusses factors operating for and against educational reform. (JS)

One of a series of 127 performance-based teacher education modules, this document teaches how to conduct a community survey. The modules are based on competencies identified and verified through research as being important to successful vocational teaching at the secondary and postsecondary levels. In addition, they have been found useful in the…

The Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities (ACLD) position statement focuses on the development of a Regular Education/Special Education Initiative (RE/SEI). RE/SEI is defined as a system of integrated planning, delivery, and evaluation of the effects of services to all students. The program would incorporate management of…

A survey of school administrators and educational researchers concerning the characteristics desired in elementary school language teachers resulted in rankings of personal qualities, pedagogical skills, and linguistic skills preferred for teachers of three program types: foreign language in the elementary school (FLES), foreign language…

By analogy, research suggests that training Child Development Associate (CDA) candidates to handle the complexity and autonomy of the early childhood teaching job is likely to have long range effects on the teacher and the early childhood education field. That is, a truly competent teacher behaves professionally and will become increasingly…