The three delivery systems investigated in this study included: lecture and large group discussion (LLG); independent-study module (ISM); and structured guidance, peer-group teaching, and small-group discussion (SGD). Fifty-one preservice teachers comprised the sample. All subjects were required to complete the same knowledge-level competencies.…

Evaluated was a 3-year graduate program to train teachers of emotionally disturbed (ED) children. The program's major goals were the acquisition of basic knowledge in special education and child development, the attainment of skills for professional teaching competence, and the development of deepened sensitivity to oneself and others. The…

Four mathematical/social studies module clusters are presented in an effort to develop proficiency in instruction and in inductive and deductive teaching procedures. Modules within the first cluster concern systems of numeration, set operations, numbers, measurement, geometry, mathematics, and reasoning. The second mathematical cluster presents…

The New York State Council for Social Studies committee developed a rationale and set of specific criteria that social studies teachers should demonstrate for certification. The rationale behind the criteria is that it makes social studies teachers a more professional group and provides for the highest caliber of teacher. Each teacher is screened…

A competency-based teacher education program is the most complete approach to training bilingual teachers because trainees know what is expected to be certified, change is built into the program, and students receive credit for life experiences. In the sample program described here, an interdisciplinary committee first stated an integrated view of…

This monograph, the fourth in a series pertaining to the Early Childhood-Special Education Teacher Preparation Program at the University of Virginia, describes the highly structured directive teaching process. The foremost example of the directive teaching process is the Bereiter-Englemann model which is geared toward alleviating the language and…

The Portal School concept envisions a group of schools established in school systems that work closely with a university and that desire to participate in teacher education. This monograph represents a collection of experiences shared by initial developers of the Portal School strategy -- Florida State University, the University of Georgia, and…

ERIC abstracts on competency-based evaluation of the educational staff, announced by this and other clearinghouses in RIE through July 1973, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "Administrator Evaluation,""Evaluation Criteria,""Evaluation Methods," and "Teacher Evaluation." The documents include materials defining…

Illinois State University operates a self-paced, competency-based teacher education program known as the Professional Sequence. It is based on the General Model of Instruction used at other universities and is organized around a series of self-instructional packages. Student progress is charted by a set of computer programs called the Surveillance…

This looseleaf publication updates an earlier report. Some of the pages contain new laws enacted since the first report was completed. The report provides tables showing the status of accountability legislation as of the fall of 1972 and texts of the actual bills or laws in a State-by-State format. The facets of accountability that the laws cover…

This publication is a module designed for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in early childhood, reading, children's literature, and special education and for in-service courses for paraprofessionals. The module is presented in two parts. Part one is the manual, which (1) describes the mode of administering the module and (2) briefly…

This is part two of a teaching module designed for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in early childhood, reading, children's literature and special education, and for in-service courses for paraprofessionals. This section specifies videotape pre-assessment and post-assessment sessions, and contains three instructional elements, assessment…

This module is the second in a two-module cluster. Together, the modules are designed to enable students to recognize and identify by type the errors that occur in recorded samples of oral reading. This one--Module B--focuses on the actual analysis of oral reading errors. Using the understanding of the phonemic and morphemic elements of English…

Title VII and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines on discrimination in employment are not always the basis for court decisions in individual cases where intent to discriminate is challenged. A number of employment discrimination cases over the last decade have invalidated employee selection practices of local school boards…

One of a series of nine reports of Project ACTIVE (Attaining Competence for Teaching in Vocational Education), this report focuses on the criteria for assessing mastery of the professional competencies (skills) important to personnel implementing the career education concept into vocational education programs in Florida. An overview of…