Involving 195 vocational, technical, and adult education (VTAE) personnel from Wisconsin's 16 VTAE districts, this study was designed to identify the teaching competencies needed by beginning VTAE teachers and to recommend alternative delivery systems for obtaining professional competencies necessary for VTAE certification. With plans to provide a…

Described is the Special Educator Training System which uses the Diagnostic Teaching Model and is applicable to all levels and types of teaching including preservice, in-service, elementary, intermediate, secondary, handicapped children, and normal children. The "Teacher Competency Journal", a 100 page document based on 323 performance objectives…

This report focuses upon the efforts of public school educators and administrators in Washington, D.C., to improve teaching and learning through a comprehensive educational plan. One of the goals in this plan was defined as the promotion of academic excellence for the attainment of knowledge, competencies, and skills. Special education projects…

This second in a series of eight learning modules on professional role and development is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers aid in serving their profession by helping them become aware of the various ways they can serve it (e.g., through active support of organizations representing the profession, volunteer work on…

As the accountability movement has brought forth renewed interest in the quality of teaching and new demands for faculty evaluation, it could be expected that the relationship between the two would have created the foundation for a rigorous program of faculty evaluation. Instead, educators continued a fruitless search for qualities and behaviors…

This study was conducted to determine differences between: (1) supervisors' ratings of instructional competencies of education majors and non-education majors in a semester of student teaching; and (2) evaluations by education majors and non-education majors of their morale during a student teacher program. Data were collected during one semester…

A Quality Assurance Program (QAP) has been established by North Carolina as a means of assuring competent professional programs for teacher education. The QAP is based on two major premises: (1) Crucial competencies for teacher effectiveness can be identified, verified, and validated; and (2) Teacher education begins at initial entry and…

Results of a longitudinal study of graduates of a competency based teacher education program at Weber State College are presented. Selected for study were those who were in their first, third, fifth, or seventh year of teaching. Respondents were principals who assessed the work of the teachers, and teachers who evaluated their preparation program.…

A teacher education program designed for preservice students who will work with mildly handicapped students in a regular classroom is described. The program consists of four levels of special education to be completed during the students' last two years of college. The principle training takes place in an elementary school setting. At the first…

These case studies describe the design and implementation of eight selected Head Start Supplementary Training/Child Development Associate (HSST/CDA) programs. (HSST/CDA training programs are intended to prepare Head Start classroom staff to meet the competency requirements of the CDA credential.) Each case study, selected for its training methods,…

A bibliography and a review of the literature on the evaluation of competency based teacher education programs are presented. The literature review highlights over 150 references which would be helpful to program evaluators with little formal training in evaluation, and covers several aspects of educational evaluation. The general theory of…

This learning module on organizing and working with a local advisory council is one of six competency-based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It provides a step-by-step approach to organizing a local advisory council, including gaining board of education approval and developing and…

Workshop proceedings in Fresno, California, concerning the development of the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education (MATCHE), a preservice home economics teacher education curriculum design, are presented in this report. Presentations from the workshop include unique and timely competency-based individualized…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on children's center aide is the second in a set of four modules on establishing occupational programs in human development. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on life style characteristics of economically depressed areas is the second in a set of four core modules on teaching home economics in economically depressed areas. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and…