One of a series of nine reports of Project ACTIVE (Attaining Competence for Teaching in Vocational Education), this report focuses on the criteria for assessing mastery of the professional competencies (skills) important to vocational educators serving disadvantaged students. An overview of competency-based vocational teacher education (CBTE) and…

Student teaching is examined in relation to Maslow's theory of human motivation that proposes an inherent human tendency toward self-actualization. It is pointed out that the majority of student teachers operate in fear as they enter their final phase of teacher training, and according to Maslow, they are operating at the safety level, concerned…

A framework is proposed for the rigorous and continuing exercise of quality control in teacher education. The major focus is on the individual measures of quality control which can be exercised at eight critical points in the preparation and practice of a teacher: (1) college admission; (2) admission to teacher education programs; (3) student…

This document is a collection of component module descriptions of competencies needed for the instruction of language arts developed during the Sixth or Eighth Cycle Teacher Corps Program of the University of Houston and Houston Independent School District, Houston, Texas. The program is a two-year graduate internship for persons holding…

This paper reports the results of a study conducted to: (1) design an instructional sequence to teach selected nursing curriculum development facts; (2) bring individual nursing instructors to a mastery level knowledge of basic theoretical models for nursing; and (3) demonstrate the applicability of the independent study approach to nursing…

This document provides specific information about the design and implementation of the student teaching component of the Early Childhood Education program at the Pennsylvania State University. The core of the program is the study of three developmental theories -- behaviorist, cognitive-interactionist, and maturationist -- and the performance of…

Because of the influence of agricultural mechanics programs at colleges and universities, it should be taught in the same manner in which teacher educators expect vocational agriculture teachers to teach in high school. These courses could serve as models for the prospective teachers to follow. (HD)

This paper describes the competency-based early childhood preservice program at Iowa's Mount Mercy College, which is for people working with children from birth through age 8, including children with special needs. Program content encompasses five competency areas: child growth and development; developmentally appropriate learning; health, safety,…

Unavailability of instruments to measure competence in home economics precluded specification of standards for all students in the State; a State HEA committee produced guidelines for determining criteria for specializations in grades 4-8 and 7-9, however, and suggestions for innovating college curriculum through the development of…

Approaches to teacher education are examined to determine their relative emphasis on practice and theory, and are criticized for divorcing theory from practice. A new approach is needed that would enable student teachers to relate theory and practice from an analysis of their classroom experiences. Appendices demonstrate this approach. (PP)

Teacher preparation programs should be designed around generic competencies based on what beginning teachers should know and be able to do and at what levels of proficiency. Two types of teacher competence are considered: (1) the functions and tasks of teaching; and (2) the behavior and actions of the teacher. (JN)

Presents tabular and narrative findings from a survey of industrial teacher educators to obtain data on the delivery systems they preferred to use in teaching specific teacher competencies and the categories or clusters of teaching competencies. The educators still preferred print-base materials and the lecture-discussion method. (MF)

Studied were the opinions of 101 teachers of trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children concerning college preparation of teachers of the TMR. (DB)

Presents 34 intercultural communication competencies appropriate to, but generally lacking in, preservice training of bilingual education teachers. Discusses the place of each competency within the components of a curriculum development paradigm: course content, instructional strategies, staffing, and evaluation. Contains 21 references. (SV)

Reports on a study of the effects of competency-based self- analysis of videotaped rehearsals by inservice music teachers. Examines the patterns of task presentation, student response, and immediate teacher feedback. Finds that research-based teaching techniques significantly increased teacher use of complete sequential patterns. (CFR)