Outlines a competency-based program through which teachers can be prepared to meet the challenge of dealing with a varied student population. States that schools have a moral obligation to eliminate the continued disregard and grossly inadequate commitment to educational provision for the culturally diverse. (Editor/RK)

This article is a detailed description of the establishment of a competency based health education program in a college. (JD)

Focuses on the State University of New York at Albany Education Consortium Task Group efforts to state the broad guidelines and concepts upon which business education teacher competencies necessary for certification are based. (TA)

Assesses the effects of model viewing and instruction in teaching strategy analysis on preservice teachers' selection of science teaching strategies and their attitude toward the role of the student. Results indicated model viewing and teaching strategy analysis instruction both positively affected teaching style and attitude. (SL)

Empirical evidence that relates teacher behavior to student achievement is minimal. (MM)

Presents information about the kind of competency testing being done, how educators view the testing movement, and how it is affecting teacher preparation programs. (SRT)

Federal laws have mandated meaningful access to higher education for the handicapped just as teacher training institutions are confronted with pressure to raise academic standards. This paper examines the underlying legal issues and proposes guidelines and procedures for ensuring quality preservice training for the learning disabled and all…

The competency assessment and remediation sequence used to ensure student readiness to progress through the curriculum at the University of North Carolina's Dental Auxiliary Teacher Education program is described. The frequency of need for remediation was analyzed. (Author/MLW)

Second in a series on improving teacher education, the paper briefly explains and justifies a generalist-specialist model of teacher education and applies the framework to steps necessary to ensure adequate competence on the part of current teachers. (SB)

This paper describes some of the key issues concerning four major factors of competency-based training: validity, reliability, logistics, and ethics. Three recommendations made to the Division 16 Education and Training Committee are presented. (Author)

This paper's thesis declares that more direct, comprehensive, and adequate measures of teaching skill will necessarily encompass, though not directly measure, certain attitudes, values, and commitments presummed to correlate positively with teaching. (JD)

Experienced observers of student teachers support strongly the need for a close, continuing relationship between student teacher and supervisor and suggest that colleges need to reassess their priorities when assigning staff to supervision of student teachers in a competency based teacher education program. (JD)

The use of a business-industrial model is a mistake when dealing with public education; a multi-dimensional model (defining goals in broad terms, taking a general view of knowledge, and viewing education as a study of life realities instead of disciplines and specialties) is necessary for true educational development. (MB)

Describes the three major undergraduate courses involved in the program. (DD)

Describes and analyzes the educational needs of minority children within the inner city as well as to propose means by which effective teachers can be trained to meet these needs. (Author/JM)