This module provides a theoretical framework and practical suggestions for developing oral second-language skills. Learning activities are designed to achieve the following objectives: (a) develop and evaluate oral drills, (b) identify characteristics of good pattern drills, (c) discriminate between "meaningless" and "meaningful" drills, and (d)…

This document focuses on the role of the curriculum specialist as an advisor to interns in their attempts to acquire and master teaching skills. The curriculum specialist has responsibility for the training of interns and for determining if the intern has met all of the teaching competency objectives. The major portion of the document is devoted…

This paper describes the Educational Media Center (EMC) at the University of Michigan School of Education and its attempts to become technologically ready for competency-based teacher education. The EMC, a facility for storing, producing, promoting, and disseminating learning resources, comprises seven components. A media library serves as a model…

The Elmira College Performance Education Program consists of a series of learning experiences which are designed to help students become successful beginning teachers. The program originated from a systems analysis of the tasks of a teacher. The goals of the program are the demonstration by the graduate of the following: (a) that the pupils with…

This handbook is designed to acquaint the teacher educator with the training materials in classroom management prepared by the Utah State University Protocol Training Project. It deals with the protocol materials generally and with each module specifically, and includes the following sections: (a) an introduction to and rationale for protocol…

Competency-based teacher education is a positive force for change which offers educators, university scholars, and students the opportunity to collaborate and to become meaningfully involved in determining the education process. To the culturally and linguistically different, it offers the hope that the monolingual, monocultural nature of American…

During the 1972-73 academic year, the Utah State University Protocol Project developed four self-instructional modules related to classroom management: (a) Group Alerting, (b) Learner Accountability, (c) Transitions, and (d) Withitness. Each module contains a student guide composed primarily of recognition lessons based upon printed classroom…

Three "enabling objectives" or learning modules comprise a learning package designed to train volunteers to assist classroom teachers. Objective 1 requires that the volunteer study and identify the 12 duties described in the "Handbook for Volunteers." Objective 2 asks that he be able to identify additional sources for help in volunteer work, and…

Four sequential mini-modules comprise a learning package designed to train the elementary school volunteer. The first module explores the needs and goals of program volunteers and developers. The second module asks the volunteer to summarize his interests, abilities, and activities and analyze those personal characteristics that might effect his…

This module provides performance criteria for the development of interpersonal skills that are instrumental to a tutor developing the math and reading skills of elementary students. It is comprised of three mini-modules dealing with the folliwing: a) the tutor's role, b) tutoring tips, and c) games and activities for reading and math tutors.…

The authors begin by describing difficulties in educational management systems and list three conditions essential for any performance-based teacher education management system: a) there must be a clear discrimination between the values of management systems operators and the management tools and processes; b) objectives and operations of the…

Aware of problems both with the lack of preparation on the part of their cooperating teachers and with beginning teachers' transitions from theory to practice, Tennessee Wesleyan College designed two experimental programs: a) Workshop Experience for Cooperating Teachers, wherein the roles of the cooperating teachers were explored, and b) Workshop…

A performance-based reading methods course at Michigan State University arose from the differences between traditional and performance-based preservice methods courses. Differences between the two types of courses are found in their objectives, clarity of communication, grading, unit of instruction, type of learning activity, type of pacing,…

Occurring in six elementary schools in Pueblo, the Teacher Corps Program at Southern Colorado State College features the following components: a) a cross-cultural component for all participants; b) a community-based component designed to assist the community to participate in educational decision making; c) a 2-year undergraduate, field- and…

This analysis, a review of literature and experience on performance-based education, is divided into nine chapters: chapter one, "The Short Form: Best-Guess Working Hypotheses for Competency-Based Education" (a summary of the frame of reference for this study and the recommendations for performance-based education which resulted from the effort);…