Professional Sequence at Illinois State University (ISU) is a self-paced, competency-based eight semester-hour program with an enrollment of approximately 1,400 students per semester. It is designed to provide preservice secondary school teachers with an integrated set of teaching skills as well as a systematic set of analytic skills. The…

This program prepares secondary level teachers by providing a systematized program of field experiences which serves the purpose of both screening and of sensitizing students to the realities of a career in secondary education. Students in this program are required to test their interest in teaching by working with secondary students in local…

This proposal deals with the implementation of a field oriented, performance based elementary teacher preparation program. The first section of the proposal defines intern roles, intern responsibilities, and performance goals. Section two lists expected competencies and presents the rationale for these competencies. Section three discusses the…

The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) plays an important role in teacher education, and, if it is to continue to do so, must meet the challenge of change in teacher education. The role of ATE, as established in its constitution, is to provide individual professional growth for all persons concerned with teacher education and to promote…

This module cluster enables (a) students to operationally define various classroom behaviors; (b) define and utilize behavioral principles; and (c) correctly employ measurement methods which facilitate information gathering, monitoring, and management of academic and/or "problem" classroom behaviors. It contains modules in the following ten areas:…

The primary purposes of this paper are (a) to describe how the Performance Based Teacher Education (PBTE) Component of the New England Program in Teacher Education (NEPTE) and Rhode Island Teacher Center (RITC) are currently operating, and (b) to project how the NEPTE and RITC delivery systems might be further utilized to diffuse PBTE. Both NEPTE…

This report discusses the fact that many educators are committed to competency based teacher education and teacher accountability systems in spite of the lack of empirical evidence linking teacher behavior to student outcomes in the classroom. Some of the difficulties associated with research in this area are identified as problems in…

During the fall quarter 1972, a total competency-based educational research course was offered at Florida International University. At that time, the course was characterized by prescribed competencies, criterion-referenced evaluation, the absence of tests, credit-no credit grading, self pacing, unlimited recycling to criterion, and individual…

In 1973, the School of Education at the University of South Dakota reorganized from a departmental structure to a team approach. Programs became competency based, field based, and modular in nature. The program sequence begins with the American Education course in the sophomore year. This course was designed for students to familiarize themselves…

This study sought to develop an instrument capable of assessing the effect of the classroom teacher's model of teaching upon the model acquired by the student. An instrument was designed which contained statements grouped into one of three categories depending upon the particular skill in question. These skills were instructional, interpersonal,…

This study investigated the influence of content area responsibility, amount of teaching experience, instructional level, and training in the teaching of reading on teachers' attitudes and perceptions of competency in content area reading instruction, and attempted to determine whether a relationship existed between these attitudes and perceptions…

A Bilingual-Bicultural Education Institute was conducted on the Choctaw Reservation to identify specific competencies needed by teachers in a bicultural school setting and to explore the use of criterion-referenced measurement in assessing level of performance of the participants. Of the forty people who participated in the Institute, twenty-one…

The objective of this project at Eastern Washington State College was to improve the quality of education in preservice teacher preparation programs, in-service teacher education programs, and teacher placement practices through a variety of video tape programs. A list of the preservice education courses which utilized video tapes was presented.…

Presented is the Process/Inquiry Module, the first of a series of science modules (Appendix A) which were designed to be used in a research project at Central Michigan University. The focus of this project was the development, evaluation and revision of competency-based materials in science methods education for elementary school teachers. The…

This article summarizes the systematic process of instructional development by breaking down the three major stages of instructional analysis, design, and formative evaluation into the steps of needs analysis, learner analysis, task analysis, concept analysis, specification of instructional requirements, and the statement of instructional…