Presented is the first of 12 instructional kits for a performance based teacher education program which was developed by Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for language handicapped children. Included in the orientation kit are directions for preassessment tasks for the four…

This document presents various teaching strategies for educators using a physical education curriculum. The study discusses availability of written materials, including journals, computer searches, and conference reports. The future of competency-based teacher education (CBTE) for physical education majors is analyzed, and five inaccurate key…

This document analyzes assessment problems related to teacher competencies and synthesizes diverse opinions on a variety of assessment concerns found in educational literature. Part one reviews the nature of competency statements and their implications for assessment. Part two discusses various viewpoints on how competencies should be written.…

This sequence of learning modules in community involvement is part of a series prepared for the Teacher Corps program at Adams State College. The modules are designed to provide the intern with: (a) entry skills into the community, (b) skills in researching a community to better understand the life style of its inhabitants, (c) skills in…

Sixty-five student-teachers' performance was tested to determine laboratory grades. Grading was based on Category Observation System TDS. Since TDS categories are structures of two ordered facts where order has the same meaning, general score of pupil stimulation was computer calculated. Students' previous awareness as to score calculation enabled…

The Intern Training Program in the Learning Assistance Center (LAC) at California State University, Long Beach, represents a systematic training program for college reading/study skills specialists. The internship consists primarily of participants processing information on the rationale, operations, and procedures of a Learning Assistance Support…

This discussion of sexist practices in classrooms throughout the country focuses on the concept of performance-based teacher education as one approach to the elimination of sex bias. Research indicates that female students undergo a loss of academic ability and sense of self-esteem as they progress through school. Male students also respond to…

This paper on alternatives in teacher education begins by analyzing the current emphasis on the scientific approach in education. The author finds the promise of the scientific approach to be illusory. He defines it as education that promotes behavior change in some desirable direction. However, this definition, which the author finds equally…

The effects on student teaching behavior of a relatively traditional, lecture-based, general secondary methods course are compared to the effects of a laboratory-oriented, competency-based course. The classroom performance of two groups of student teachers (30 of whom completed the competency-based course and 40 of whom completed the lecture-based…

Western Kentucky University is engaged in testing an evaluation system designed to obtain objective, quantifiable data on graduates of its teacher education program. Each year 20 elementary and 20 secondary participants are randomly selected at the beginning of their student teaching experience. Participants are observed during their preservice…

In this speech, Representative Albert H. Quie (R-Minn.) asserts that 1973 will be one of the most exciting and promising years in higher education. He gives three reasons: a) the repeal of the draft; b) the stabilization of the fiscal crisis of 1970 and '71; and c) the enacting of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program, which guarantees…

This paper focuses on the competencies that teachers need in working with Chicano children by describing the culture filter concept, discussing cultural pluralism, and stressing the importance of a competency-based teacher education (CBTE) program specifically relating to the Chicano. The culture filter concept suggests using knowledge of cultural…

The lack of substance in many methods courses stems from the lack of a systematic procedure for identifying specific teaching behaviors. Methods courses in general fail to differentiate between learning and teaching. This paper presents a paradigm which can be used for the systematic identification of effective teacher behavior. The three axes of…

This document describes a three-part, flexible, individualized teacher education program which spans the preservice/inservice continuum. The first part, Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP), is a five-phase program which features early and continuous contact with secondary school classrooms and students, individual learning packages called…

This paper describes the Competency-Based University/School Rural Teacher Education program designed to produce teachers trained for rural situations and to provide experience in the process of university/school district/educational agency cooperative training activities. Data collected during 1972-73 regarding rural living and educational…