Supervision in schools today requires a team approach. A professional supervisor will respect the professional status of the school staff and will encourage each member to perform leadership tasks. Educational leaders should keep informed in their field and endeavor to improve their supervisory methods. They should use current techniques to…

Student self-pacing, competency standards, scope, theory base and state-imposed accountability legislation are discussed as problems facing competency-based teacher education. (CP)

Two movements in American education are referred to as competency-based education (CBE). The purpose of the first is to protect traditional symbols of achievement such as high school diplomas and teaching certificates. The second builds on basic concepts of learning theory, emphasizing objectives, performance by practitioners, and learner…

This paper examines how Information and Communication Technologies (henceforth ICT) have been recontextualized in Brazilian educational policies, between 1995 and 2007, from a discourse analytical perspective, focusing on the dialectic relations between structures and strategies, especially as far as teacher education is concerned. It is divided…

This paper describes a 3-day workshop designed for Wisconsin Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education instructors who taught technical/occupational coursework and focused on problem-solving techniques used in business and industry. Problem-solving techniques were identified through personal and telephone interviews in a sample of 200 training…

The learning activity package is central to successful individualized instruction. This prescription for a unit of work contains a statement of learning objectives, a sequence of learning activities, and provisions for evaluating learning outcomes. To offset deficiencies found in most prescriptions of learning activities, guidelines for writing…

The observation of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Committee on Performance Based Teacher Education (PBTE) on the state of the art of PBTE in 1975 are presented in this publication. The Committee states that PBTE may be defined as a process for improving the preparation and development of educational personnel. This…

Process and product evidence presented in the paper indicate that the competency-based, mastery learning inservice workshop can be an effective diffusion strategy for an educational innovation. The innovation under study was a competency-based, mastery learning, individualized instruction project; the diffusion methods used were the same as the…

If music is the product of a peculiarly human behavior, the study of music rightfully belongs to the humanities program. (Author)

Competency-based management and teaching objectives offer a vehicle by which the strengths and weaknesses of the entire educational system can be identified, a basis upon which rational decisions to improve the system can be made. (Author)

An innovative advanced shorthand/transcription program utilizing the competency-based concept along with individualized progression and contractual grading was initiated at Illinois State University. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to identify and describe barriers to the implementation of competency-based vocational education (CBVE) in Florida's secondary schools and to recommend strategies/solutions to overcome these barriers. Implications for policy formation and for administrative action were to be drawn. This project used as its basis the…

The International Teacher Education Program, described in this article, is designed to create teacher competencies in world awareness and cultural diversity while taking advantage of a campus atune to international studies. A world affairs quiz used in the program is included. (JH)

A competency-based performance contract instructional approach to teaching advanced shorthand at Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois) revealed that better-prepared or independent-study oriented students were favored more by the approach than less-able students needing constant teacher guidance. The instructor spent an increased amount of…

Competency based education is particularly suited to adult education programs because adults often possess practical experience which may enable them to demonstrate sufficient specific competencies without taking formal coursework. While this approach to adult education programs has several advantages, seven problem areas should be carefully…