An experimental inservice project was developed at the college level focusing on teaching competencies in planning, direct teaching, and measurement applied to handicapped persons. The project features included training in skills directly applicable to classroom needs and supervision and consultation via remote monitoring and site visits.…

The Criterion-Referenced Test of Pedagogical Knowledge (CTPK) and the Hill Education Cognitive Style Interest Inventory were administered to 30 students in a performance-based vocational teacher certification program. Learning preference, personal, and program characteristics were identified for mastery (over 80 percent on CTPK) and nonmastery…

The author criticizes the trend in American education to establish performance-based behavioral objectives. The objectives become a means for teacher accountability thus fostering teaching for a test and destroying teacher creativity. Curricula are strangled by objectives, performances, and tests imposed by administrators. (MR)

Instead of engaging in the controversy over competency-based teacher education, this paper deals with a description of the implementation of the actual CBTE program, the problems of transition, and difficulties of operation. It is presented primarily as input for those involved in teacher education and contemplating a movement toward CBTE.…

Describes Phase 1 of Florida's competency-based teacher education program which is concerned with identifying and validating professional competencies important to beginning and experienced trade and industrial education teachers. (TA)

Summarizes some of the ideas presented and discussed at the sixty-second annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English held in November 1972. (TO)

Performance-based competency and performance criteria are given short shrift as well as any other method that prescribes every behavior and turns beginning teachers (who should be creative artists) into mechanics. (Author/JN)

Maley outlines elements of a philosophy of teacher education. Walker describes a program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a field-centered, competency-based approach in which a team of professionals provides training and upgrading at the teacher's job site. (SK)

Discusses a system in which English faculty evaluate writing proficiency examinations administered by an education department, including the problems engendered by such a system. (AEA)

Reviews the Child Development Associate (CDA) program for training child care professionals, and suggests changes for both its immediate and long-range future. (Author/CM)

Knowledge of a student's ability to handle a specific text can help teachers choose appropriate materials for instruction and can help ensure maximum classroom effectiveness. The Vocational Reading Competency-Based Teacher Education Project contains self-paced modules which outline concepts and offer classroom techniques to aid teachers in this…

The National Center for Research in Vocational Education is developing a set of competency-based teacher education modules designed to train vocational education teachers to serve students with special needs. This article describes activities pursued as part of the project. (CJ)

A general model for competency-based in-service training which integrates four processes used in systems engineering is described; the major problems that reduce its effective use are presented and discussed. (MM)

A list of competencies (51 classified as musical and 59 identified as teaching competencies) was developed and ranked by 201 general music, instrumental, and choral teachers. This article includes the competencies list, teachers' ranking for each item, and variances in rankings between the three groups of teachers. (Author/SJL)

A single-letter grade, the traditional method of reporting the performance of student teachers, does not adequately reflect the strengths and weaknesses of vocational students' abilities to teach both content and skills. A criterion-referenced approach can provide a more descriptive record of each student teacher's competencies. (CT)