An adequate and effective amalgam of theory and the practice of education in the preparation of future teachers must be worked out. (RC)

To make up for the administrator's lack of information about a prospective teacher, an educational portfolio is recommended. It would be developed throughout the undergraduate years and contain sample items relating to teaching competencies and video tapes. (MS)

An internship instruction at the University of Maryland is described. (MS)

Illinois State University has done away with traditional courses in teacher education. The Professional Education Sequence (PES) is performance based and derived from an explicit conception of teacher roles. The teacher role consists of specified competencies formed in behavioral terms and expressed as objectives with explicit assessment…

Paper focuses on one attempt to train teachers to be knowledgeable, caring, and capable of designing instructional activities that promote desirable learning in young children. (Authors/CB)

Description of the Child Development Associate (CDA) program is provided in terms of goals, characteristics, and training procedures, as well as future directions. (MP)

The article examines a competency-based objectives system for evaluating the student teaching experience for majors in speech-language pathology and audiology programs. It is composed of 89 competencies which cover the broad range of knowledge, skill, and value objectives that a student is likely to experience during student teaching. (Author/SW)

In a project to identify and verify professional competencies for beginning industrial education teachers, researchers found a 173-item questionnaire unwieldy. Using multiple-matrix sampling, they distributed subsets of items to respondents, resulting in adequate returns as well as duplication, postage, and time savings. (SK)

The article describes the Responsive Teacher Program at the University of Vermont, a competency based undergraduate teacher education program designed to prepare regular educators for mainstreaming handicapped children. (DB)

The authors outline a number of problems that educators encounter in competency based teacher education development, including the issue of generic v cross categorical training, and time and cost-effectiveness. The Project SERVE training model for teachers of the multiply handicapped, visually impaired is summarized to illustrate the functionality…

Describes procedures used in developing a course designed to provide competency-based training for future reading supervisors. Lists competencies the course was designed to teach, tells how settings were located in which students could develop and demonstrate competencies, and briefly describes the course format and content. (GT)

Thirty colleges and universities and 70 principals and teachers in Colorado were surveyed to comment on state certification issues and to rate competency areas as to their respective value in training teachers of gifted and talented children. (PHR)

Results of a survey of teacher education institutions with competency based teacher education programs is presented. Eleven validated problems encountered in planning and developing such programs are examined and implications are discussed. (JMF)

An effective competency based teacher education instructional system should be able to determine the competencies necessary for teacher effectiveness, design reliable assessment instruments, and gear instruction to individual student capabilities. (JN)