Report on activities of the AACTE Committee on Performance Based Teacher Education. (MM)

Presents and discusses the implications of findings from research which revealed perceived inadequacies in the subject-skills provision element of four secondary Post-graduate Certificate of Education (PGSE) technology initial teacher education (ITE) courses in England and Wales. A background on teacher education in the United Kingdom is included.…

This report describes the condition of teacher education preparation at authorized colleges and universities in Colorado, including the total program enrollments, enrollments by licensure or endorsement area, and student demographic and institutional-level data. All approved teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education, public…

This article contributes to the debate regarding the preferred model for teacher education to provide for teacher shortages. The models commonly referred to are the consecutive model, the integrated model and the concurrent model for teacher training. The aim of this article is to determine if the integrated model for teacher education is an…

This paper reflects on a new pre-service teacher education initiative, "Classmates." "Classmates" is a collaboration between the University of Western Sydney (UWS) and the New South Wales Department of Education and Training (DET), South Western Sydney Region. "Classmates" aims to prepare pre-service teachers to work…

Aspiring middle school teachers in the United States take fewer math courses and are less knowledgeable in the subject than their counterparts in South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries. That gap in teacher preparation, coupled with curricular differences, could help explain achievement disparities between American students and their peers in…

This article presents questions and answers on the topic of competency-based instruction. (RC)

Examines the educational reform movement of the 1960's, especially the competency-based approach to teacher education. Some of the major accomplishments and mistakes of the reform movement are discussed and ideas for future educational directions are presented. (JMB)

The competency-based teaching program in business education at the University of Houston has been divided into three phases that end with the certification of the business educator. The program phases are: observation, tutoring, and student teaching. (Author)

The study explored preparation of 38 instructors of motor skills for the handicapped through a competency-based mastery learning format. Both mastery learning and non-mastery learning formats of instruction were used to train the potential teachers. A systems approach to training was employed in a performance-based practical competency-based…

This article discusses the competency-based teacher education movement in relation to early childhood education. (PD)

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…