Teacher-trainers say they'd be more apt to grant degree credit if better ways are found to test for job-learned skills. (Editor)

Two field-based teacher education programs at North Texas State University are described. The West Dallas Teacher Education Project prepares education students to work in inner-city, urban schools, and the North Texas Cooperative Teacher Education Project allows education students to work as paraprofessional teacher aides. (CJ)

The competency-based teacher education movement introduced evaluation of individual and institutional effectiveness at every level of teacher training. Though it has not accomplished its promised reform of teacher education, CBTE has stimulated research, it has triggered changes in teacher certification requirements, and its influence is found…

Describes an evaluation of performance-based teacher education (PBTE) programs conducted in three Australian states for technical and further education teachers during 1979. The objectives of the research included effectiveness of the PBTE approach, reactions of participants in the programs, and institutional considerations in its operation.…

The mastery approach was taken with physical education majors at the sophomore level. The approach was based on several considerations which included the achievement of a minimum competency level. The students were allowed to select one of three options to achieve this level. (JN)

Bilingual teacher education in California is examined. A discussion of such issues as the status of bilingual teachers, competencies for bilingual teachers, and bilingual secondary and vocational teacher education is followed by a list of recommendations for teacher training institutions. (FG)

A study was conducted to identify and gain consensus on teacher competencies that should be demonstrated by industrial arts student teachers. Classroom teachers, teacher educators, and supervisors rated 90 percent of the 81 competencies studied as being of extremely high, high, or medium importance. (LRA)

This study was concerned with the measurement of a set of indicators of teacher competence, defined by the teachers themselves as observable in their classroom behavior. It was concluded that keys could be constructed to yield stable and consistent measures of most indicators of competency. (Authors/JN)

Implications from research on teaching in the elementary grades indicate that teachers do make a difference in student learning, that a variety of teaching behaviors is needed for different teaching situations, and that behavior patterns, rather than isolated skills, should be defined for competency-based teacher education and teacher evaluation.…

Competency-based teacher education is attacked, and adaptation of the methods theory of acting to teacher preparation programs is advocated. (LH)

The author seeks to refute the narrowly behavioralistic image of Competency Based Teacher Education (CBTE) and proposes an atypical CBTE program, combining both cognitive and behavioral competencies, as a model for Canadian teacher education. The research and planning necessary to achieve this model are outlined. (SJL)

Learner-controlled education is a multimedia, self-pacing, individualized educational program used for 15 years in the electronics laboratory at the University of Northern Colorado. Most of the students are industrial arts majors in the teacher education program. Program content is organized for classroom use in learning activity packets.…

Competency-based teacher education to make student teaching a more effective experience is the focus of the research cited here. The article lists some basic competencies generated by professionals and future professionals concerned with creating a more effective teacher education enterprise. (Author)