This unit of work is designed to provide the participant with an overview of the purposes, methods, and techniques for testing English as a Second Language (ESL) and practical classroom applications. Given the series of learning alternatives on testing that are presented in this module, the participant should be able to: (a) demonstrate knowledge…

This document on changing patterns of teacher education in the United States is divided into three sections. Section 1, "Some Contextual Factors," covers the following topics: governmental issues; planning and management, the scientific base for educational practice, ideology and politics, and governance of teacher education. Section 2, is…

The third interim report of a project to develop a prototype competency based training program for the preparation of special education consultants is intended to serve as a dissemination model detailing module topics, competency statements, and competency components of the 13 modules or training packages. Summarized is the history of the project…

The Rutland Center project is a combined teacher training-service model for the education of children with severe emotional and behavioral problems from 2-14 years of age. The model has several unique features: a) a new social-emotional curriculum (Developmental Therapy) for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children, which uses normal…

Project Change is an early childhood (ages 3-9) teacher education program at the State University of New York College at Cortland. Presently supported by U.S. Office of Education funding but guaranteed permanent institutionization by the college, the project seeks to train effective open classroom teachers in central New York through a master's…

This course is designed to help teachers learn how to write performance objectives. It covers instruction on identifying goal statements, identifying the three parts of a performance objective, writing five performance objectives, writing cognitive objectives at all six levels, recognizing psychomotor objectives at all five levels, recognizing and…

This paper is a descriptive study constructed around the questions, What is effective teaching? and How is it produced? Previous research findings on the subject are examined from an Aristotelian viewpoint, resulting in the equation of "good teachers" with people who perceive themselves as "good people." The remainder of this paper proposes a…

The purposes of this study were (1) to design four resource modules--Diagnostic Evaluation of Reading Progress; Developing Comprehension: Analysis of Meaning; Developing Comprehension: Synthesis and Generalization; Developing Comprehension: Information Acquisition--and (2) to determine whether an instructional module developed from one of these…

This is the post-assessment packet for the instructional module on Interpersonal Perception. It includes tests for definitions, a social opinion scale, and questions about pictures in the resource book. Guidelines are given for evaluating the pre-assessment and post-assessment tests. (MM)

This module attempts to develop the abilities of school personnel to find out precisely what in a school situation needs to be evaluated. Its main purpose is to foster the development of relevant questions. Specifically, this module focuses on the following terminal objective: satisfactorily identify and order the evaluation priorities in a given…

This report is one of a series of nine reports of Project ACTIVE (Attaining Competence for Teaching in Vocational Education), a project categorized into three sections: (1) Teaching Components--Cooperative Vocational Education, Industrial Arts, Trade and Industrial, Vocational Business Education, (2) Leadership…

This document describes the module cluster "Mathematics Methods and Materials" to be used in a performance-based elementary teacher education program. General objectives of the module cluster are specified, and prerequisites to the cluster are identified. Titles of 19 modules within the cluster are listed. The overall structure of each module…

The author discusses the role of industrial arts and vocational educators in the design and operation of career education programs and provides some guidelines for the design and implementation of competency-based inservice teacher development programs. (MF)

Describes the development of the Self-Training and Evaluation Program (STEP), a performance-based professional development program for college instructors teaching in an individualized performance-based instructional system. The DACUM (Developing A Curriculum) model, consisting of a skill profile that serves as a curriculum plan and an evaluation…

Describes the instructional materials produced and distributed by the American Association for Vocational Instructional Materials (AAVIM), an interstate organization of universities, colleges, and state divisions of vocational education, not to compete with but to supplement state work. AAVIM also publishes performance-based teacher education…