This report describes the first-year progress of the Fredonia/Hamburg Teacher Education Center and is concerned with aspects of the general format, program, and organization of the center. Chapter one defines and discusses the development of competency-based programs and describes the purpose of the Teacher Education Center at Fredonia/Hamburg.…

This paper constructs a typology of the philosophical assumptions of a humanistic, competency based, teacher education program. At the same time, the paper fills in the assumptions of the typology. It is indicated that the listing of assumptions is characterized by completeness, sequential ordering, and the fact that it is non-compromised. The…

This paper describes a survey conducted to determine the needs of a group of California teachers who deal with bilingual, bicultural children. The one-page questionnaire listed areas of interest and possible methods to acquire skill in those areas. Areas of interest included developing a workable Spanish vocabulary for teachers to use when…

This report describes a 1-year project for the initial development and implementation of a competency-based teacher education program. The project was part of a fifth-cycle Teacher Corps program. Project activities were directed toward planning, faculty development, assessment of changes in attitudes and program structures, and facilitation of…

This document is one in a series of monographs that present concepts and practices reflecting an analysis of programs to prepare general and special education personnel. This monograph presents a conceptual model of the seven major phases and tasks involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating personnel preparation programs in the field of…

This book, which is divided into five parts, is a compilation of literature on Competency Based Education (CBE). Analytical examinations are presented by advocates and critics in the field. Part 1, entitled "The Essence of the Approach," explores the basic meaning of CBE giving several definitions, tracing its psychological and theoretical bases,…

Discusses the confusion caused by a variety of definitions of competence and competency based programs, and offers a set of definitions of competence comprehensive enough to be applied to all steps of educational planning. (SF)

A four-phrase evaluation model implemented in a secondary level teacher education program. (DAG)

Described is the University of North Florida's competency based program for teachers of the hearing impaired. (CL)

A field-based task-oriented teacher education model is described and its implementation in university college-operated schools (primary and secondary) is recommended. (CL)

The article, an attempt to help teacher educators plan their instructional activities, presents a planning framework by which the type and level of learning desired can be matched with the most appropriate, feasible, and effective processes for attaining that learning. (Author/CL)

Describes the Los Alamitos approach to inservice teacher training. (IRT)

The author presents his experiences in developing a competency-based program of educational media administration using independent prescriptive study and professor-student conferences as a way to observe tight budgetary restrictions. (MB)

Rather than the traditional way of research influencing classroom instruction, with Performance Based Teacher Education in effect, instruction can present research with categories of behavior that are concrete examples of what teachers do in actual classrooms. (JA)

Argues that the weak research base and continuing evaluation will cause the knowledge base of performance-based teacher education to change. Discusses the changes that could be expected. (Author/JF)