The authors present some guides for understanding the controversy over teacher competence and developing teacher competency programs and policies. (Editors)

A discussion of the major criticisms leveled against Competency Based Teacher Education, and attempt to show that CBTE is suffering no more than previously proposed innovations. (Author)

This issue of the Multi-State Consortium on Performance-Based Teacher Education (PBTE) newsletter presents (1) a summary of recommendations from a Florida conference on processes that would aid planners in the design of PBTE programs; (2) announcement of special sessions on performance based teacher assessment at the 1973 American Educational…

This report on performance based teacher education (PBTE) begins with a consideration of the problem of a definition of PBTE since uncertainty and confusion have tended to result from a lack of clarity about what PBTE really is. In Chapter 2, the background of PBTE is surveyed and the intellectual, educational and political factors influencing the…

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)