Twenty-three special education teachers and 13 special education student teachers rated 16 teacher competencies according to their importance. Results indicated that teachers were able to rate competencies, and that there was practically no disagreement in ratings between practicing special educators and student teachers. (CL)

A study to determine needed competencies of teachers of intellectually gifted students was begun with a compilation of 751 competency statements from the literature of general and special education and interviews with parents and teachers of gifted students. Critiquing and refining efforts produced a list of 111 competencies stated in behavioral…

This bulletin is comprised of nine papers that address the issues concerning the development of competency-based designs for teacher education and certification. In the first paper, Dickson traces the origins of competency-based teacher education (CBTE) and concludes with some implications of CBTE and its future potential. In the second paper,…

This catalog of teacher competencies provides the user with an array of 1,300 competency statements from which descriptions of teachers can be built. The introduction provides a brief history of the development of the catalog and a framework within which to proceed with a competency selection process. The catalog includes: (a) instructions for use…

The Consortium of Southern Colleges for Teacher Education is a group of 10 "developing" colleges that assist each other in the development of performance-based teacher education programs. This document, which is the final report of a research project, studies each of the consortium's goals, which are a) to design, develop, implement, and evaluate…

This study investigates the success of preservice elementary social studies teachers in acquiring effective questioning skills using a self-instructional Competency-Based Teacher Education (CBTE) module and tests the possible relationship between a teacher personality variable and a measure of their questioning ability. The subjects were divided…

There are three major phases of this competency-based, humanistically oriented adaptation plan for the Teacher Corps program. The first is the adaptation of the national Teacher Corps program to the local Teacher Corps program. This requires adapting the national literature to realistically fit local needs, adapting the national interest and…

This document is a collection of three papers prepared as a result of a mandate for a collaborative approach in preparing professionals for the public schools in New York State. In "Working through a Consortium," C. Michael Darcy, writing on the assumption that the consortium is the most desirable future state for the governance of teacher…

This document takes issue with the concept of competency-based teacher education as presented in the New York Regents Master Plan for Development of Post-Secondary Education, 1972. It maintains that the competency-based concept completely undermines tenure and teacher rights to due process. Further, the paper takes the position that the teacher…

This document is divided into four sections, each an announcement of an event related to teacher education. The first section is a discussion of in-service education with a brief description of the book "Improving In-Service Education (1971)," edited by Louis Rubin. Section two is a description of the University of Bridgeport's Multiple…

This paper is a brief overview of competency-based teacher education (CBTE) and competency-based certification (CBC). The notion of requiring teachers to demonstrate certain skills is examined in the light of questions on its long-range validity and utility. The author cautions against overreliance on CBTE and CBC due to a number of these…

A pilot program stressing university student involvement in the classroom. (DAG)

Designed primarily for research and development, the commission described was set up to coordinate the nationwide performance-based teacher education movement. The research and development plan is directed to defining teacher competence, measuring it, and evaluating systems of training for teaching competence. (JF)

A heated controversy occurred when the Texas State Board of Education mandated competency based teacher education (CBTE) for all of the State's 66 teacher preparatory institutions. This is an account of developments in Texas by two major proponents of CBTE. (Author/JF)

A heated controversy occurred when the Texas State Board of Education mandated competency based teacher education (CBTE) for all of the State's 66 teacher preparatory institutions. The author, who has led a movement of professional groups seeking an attorney general's ruling against the mandate, argues that this mandate violates the professor's…