This booklet describes the implementation of a Competency Based Teacher Education (CBTE) program at South Carolina State University. Students preparing to teach in elementary schools are involved in this program. CBTE is seen as a method for improving instruction and delivery of service to students, a method for increasing individualization of…

The Office of Teacher Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Buffalo Public Schools have cooperatively developed the City Teaching Center, a preservice teacher education program which integrates theoretical learnings with field-based experiences in urban settings. Personnel of the center include both university staff (two…

The Utah State University Elementary Teacher Education Program, SODIA, is multicultural, performance-based, field-centered, and utilizes portal schools as partners in the teacher education program. It is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental program utilizing staff from the Departments of Psychology, Special Education, and Family and Child…

This publication describes the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) network for the Preparing Regular Educators for Mainstreaming (PREM) project. PREM is a competency-guided program being developed at the University of Texas at Austin to prepare educators to meet the needs of exceptional children in the regular classroom. PERT is an…

To identify professional education competency needs for vocational agriculture teachers in Ohio, 555 secondary vocational agriculture teachers teaching in the State during 1973-74 were surveyed. The target population was stratified into three groups: (1) four-year college agricultural education majors, (2) four-year college technical agriculture…

This Child Development Associate (CDA) Consortium report describes the issues, recommendations, and papers discussed at the 1975 Asian American Colloquy. There were three major purposes for this colloquy: to provide selected Asian Americans with information on the philosophy and goals of CDA, to provide an opportunity for CDA and its constituents…

This document is a compilation of articles, extracts of books or articles, and abstracts of material on performance based teacher education (PBTE). It is divided into four sections. The first section contains background material and provides definitions, rationales, and historical contexts for PBTE. The second section has material on program…

This collection of articles deals with collaboration in teacher education. The first paper, "A Conceptual Basis for Collaboration," by Earl D. Clark, synthesizes the concepts and components of collaboration and prescribes the relationships needed between all involved if quality programs are to prevail. The second paper, "Parity and Educational…

This five-part report evaluates the First-Year Teacher Pilot Program utilized at Alabama University in Birmingham. The program was designed primarily to improve teacher competence, thereby improving the teaching learning process in the elementary and secondary classrooms of Alabama. In addition, a research component was designed to obtain…

Aptitude treatment interaction (ATI), as applied to education, measures the interaction of personality factors and experimentally manipulated teaching strategies. ATI research has had dissappointingly inconclusive results so far, but proponents argue that this has been due to imprecise methods, which can be rectified. They believe that…

This study utilized elementary teachers who had completed either competency-based (CBTE) or conventional teacher education programs and their principals to evaluate undergraduate preparation for classroom teaching. A 15 item questionnaire was administered and the data analyzed. Results obtained from the analysis of the teachers' data indicated…

The final report on Preparing Regular Educators for Mainstreaming mildly handicapped children (Project PREM) focuses on the first year's activities and outlines proposed objectives for the project's second and third years. Covered in an introductory section are Project PREM's main objective of developing and implementing a competency-based program…

This study presents an evaluation by student teachers of a one-year internship program initiated in 1972 in the Hamburg central school system. The Teacher Education Research Center (TERC) program was field-centered and competency-based, and provided the opportunity to develop teaching competencies in 12 categories. The evaluation instrument was…

This module, one in a series of science modules (Appendix A) designed for use in a science methods course research project at Central Michigan University, emphasizes classroom management skills. All of the modules are part of a project aimed at developing, evaluating, and revising competency-based materials for use in science methods education for…

Reported are proceedings and results from a special study institute (1973) related to development of a leadership training program for educators of crippled and other health impaired-multiply handicapped (COHI-MH) persons. Noted are contributions of two previous conferences (in 1970 and 1971). Presented are reports of five task forces on the…