A "personalized" staff development project conducted by the University of Georgia's Department of Professional Laboratory Experiences and local schools used the Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments (TPAI) to assess beginning teachers' latent competencies and indicate potential areas of improvement. Both the TPAI and the staff…

Project AIM/LOFT (Accommodative Instructional Management/Learning Opportunities for Teachers) is a staff development training program that uses special instructional materials. The five-part staff development project includes: (1) intensive competency-based training; (2) in-class follow-up training; (3) action labs; (4) training in team dynamics;…

An evaluation of student teacher competency through the use of measure of learner cognitive attainment reveals that teacher expectations do not influence achievement. The amount of experience, degree of effectiveness as perceived by the university supervisor, and time provided for students to learn by student teachers do influence learner…

Reports on research that confounds normal expectations concerning the teacher behavior that encourages student achievement and self-concept development. For instance, using praise or rewards and pausing, eliciting, and responding to student questions were negatively correlated to student achievement gains. (IRT)

Although there appears to be considerable agreement concerning the criteria to be evaluated in field experience programs for preservice teachers, the relative importance attached to each item varies markedly from one program to another. (JD)

Discusses case studies that assessed the effectiveness of a performance-based teacher education curriculum on vocational teacher education programs. (WD)

A framework to describe, classify, and compare a variety of teacher education programs is offered. Examples of how the framework has been used for types of school organizations are given, along with an explanation of how the framework can be applied to alternative approaches to teacher education. (MLW)

This project at Western Illinois University is a two-semester, participation-based, competency program designed to train undergraduate and graduate students to work with handicapped infants and preschoolers in a variety of service delivery settings. One of seven Dean's Grant programs for PL 94-142 training described in this issue. (Author/SJL)

A review of current research efforts reveals that there is little dependable evidence that teachers, under similar conditions, exhibit what has been defined as differential performances. (JMF)

Because of the focus on student teacher achievement, a product evaluation of instruction (as opposed to a process evaluation) is appropriate for use in performance-based physical education teacher education internship programs. (LH)

Teacher and pupil behavior were observed in an elementary physical education student-teaching class by event, placheck and duration recording procedures, with results indicating that competency-based intervention had a significant effect on teacher behavior and a slight effect on pupil behavior. (MB)

Describes a study conducted to develop a system for the technical component of a competency-based teacher program in agricultural education. The findings of the study revealed that there were differences between the technical competency needs of beginning teachers and that of beginning workers. (MF)

This description of the INDEPTH program (Inservice Distributive Education Program of Teaching Help) in Virginia includes a discussion of the program's background, salient features, and its six 15-hour modules. (The program was developed by distributive education personnel in three Virginia universities, the Virginia Department of Education, and…

Described are several checklists used in the evaluation of specific teacher competencies appropriate to the field of learning disabilities; and reviewed are a book on nonvocal communication and a guide to drama activities. (DB)

Presents 10 principles for beginning mathematics teachers based on the standards of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC). A main product of the INTASC Performance Assessment Development Project (PADP) is the use of a portfolio-based teacher assessment which includes lessons focusing on one mathematical topic,…