This course is designed to help teachers learn how to write performance objectives. It covers instruction on identifying goal statements, identifying the three parts of a performance objective, writing five performance objectives, writing cognitive objectives at all six levels, recognizing psychomotor objectives at all five levels, recognizing and…

This paper is a descriptive study constructed around the questions, What is effective teaching? and How is it produced? Previous research findings on the subject are examined from an Aristotelian viewpoint, resulting in the equation of "good teachers" with people who perceive themselves as "good people." The remainder of this paper proposes a…

The purposes of this study were (1) to design four resource modules--Diagnostic Evaluation of Reading Progress; Developing Comprehension: Analysis of Meaning; Developing Comprehension: Synthesis and Generalization; Developing Comprehension: Information Acquisition--and (2) to determine whether an instructional module developed from one of these…

This is the post-assessment packet for the instructional module on Interpersonal Perception. It includes tests for definitions, a social opinion scale, and questions about pictures in the resource book. Guidelines are given for evaluating the pre-assessment and post-assessment tests. (MM)

This module attempts to develop the abilities of school personnel to find out precisely what in a school situation needs to be evaluated. Its main purpose is to foster the development of relevant questions. Specifically, this module focuses on the following terminal objective: satisfactorily identify and order the evaluation priorities in a given…

This report is one of a series of nine reports of Project ACTIVE (Attaining Competence for Teaching in Vocational Education), a project categorized into three sections: (1) Teaching Components--Cooperative Vocational Education, Industrial Arts, Trade and Industrial, Vocational Business Education, (2) Leadership…

This document describes the module cluster "Mathematics Methods and Materials" to be used in a performance-based elementary teacher education program. General objectives of the module cluster are specified, and prerequisites to the cluster are identified. Titles of 19 modules within the cluster are listed. The overall structure of each module…

The author discusses the role of industrial arts and vocational educators in the design and operation of career education programs and provides some guidelines for the design and implementation of competency-based inservice teacher development programs. (MF)

Describes the development of the Self-Training and Evaluation Program (STEP), a performance-based professional development program for college instructors teaching in an individualized performance-based instructional system. The DACUM (Developing A Curriculum) model, consisting of a skill profile that serves as a curriculum plan and an evaluation…

Describes the instructional materials produced and distributed by the American Association for Vocational Instructional Materials (AAVIM), an interstate organization of universities, colleges, and state divisions of vocational education, not to compete with but to supplement state work. AAVIM also publishes performance-based teacher education…

An overview and criticism of trends in American education is followed by a suggested framework for reorganization of American schools. (MM)

Explores how competency tests and other measures can be used to improve the quality of teaching in the current context of teacher preparation. Proposes a teacher education model aimed at early motivation toward teaching careers, stronger subject-matter competence, and master's degree level preparation. (GC)

Discusses (1) a Michigan court decision concerning reverse discrimination and voluntary affirmative action policies; (2) the Massachusetts Supreme Court's rejection of the work-to-rule strategy; and (3) an Arkansas law that will allow teachers failing a basic skills and literacy test to be fired only when their state certification expires. (MLF)

Teachers who took a training course in classroom behavior were observed by external raters as more emotional, warm, and appreciative than those who were not trained. (Author/DEP)

The Urban Teacher Preparation Program, a Masters Degree program which represents a unique cooperative relationship between Syracuse Public Schools and Syracuse University began in 1964 and still continues to meet the need to provide the specialized kind of training which prepares teachers to have a positive impact on the lives of minority youth.…