Describes a flexible computer management system that grades tests and keeps records in a competency-based teacher education program. (IRT)

A Mississippi model for developing a professional teacher education core is reported as well as an accompanying automated student performance monitoring system. It is noted that state process and performance standards, observational performance assessments, and national test content were used to determine program content and outcomes. (CB)

The article describes one university's health and safety education faculty's use of a framework for evaluating and restructuring curriculum. The revised program focuses on the concept of the generic health educator requiring students to take a variety of courses to enable them to handle a variety of instructional audiences and topics related to…

Analyzes "competence" as it pertains to teaching to clarify the term. Four normative conceptions of the meaning of competence that result from the analysis are identified. Implications for teaching and educational settings are explored. (DF)

An experimental inservice project was developed at the college level focusing on teaching competencies in planning, direct teaching, and measurement applied to handicapped persons. The project features included training in skills directly applicable to classroom needs and supervision and consultation via remote monitoring and site visits.…

The Criterion-Referenced Test of Pedagogical Knowledge (CTPK) and the Hill Education Cognitive Style Interest Inventory were administered to 30 students in a performance-based vocational teacher certification program. Learning preference, personal, and program characteristics were identified for mastery (over 80 percent on CTPK) and nonmastery…

The author criticizes the trend in American education to establish performance-based behavioral objectives. The objectives become a means for teacher accountability thus fostering teaching for a test and destroying teacher creativity. Curricula are strangled by objectives, performances, and tests imposed by administrators. (MR)

Instead of engaging in the controversy over competency-based teacher education, this paper deals with a description of the implementation of the actual CBTE program, the problems of transition, and difficulties of operation. It is presented primarily as input for those involved in teacher education and contemplating a movement toward CBTE.…

Describes Phase 1 of Florida's competency-based teacher education program which is concerned with identifying and validating professional competencies important to beginning and experienced trade and industrial education teachers. (TA)

Summarizes some of the ideas presented and discussed at the sixty-second annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English held in November 1972. (TO)

Performance-based competency and performance criteria are given short shrift as well as any other method that prescribes every behavior and turns beginning teachers (who should be creative artists) into mechanics. (Author/JN)

Maley outlines elements of a philosophy of teacher education. Walker describes a program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a field-centered, competency-based approach in which a team of professionals provides training and upgrading at the teacher's job site. (SK)

Discusses a system in which English faculty evaluate writing proficiency examinations administered by an education department, including the problems engendered by such a system. (AEA)

Reviews the Child Development Associate (CDA) program for training child care professionals, and suggests changes for both its immediate and long-range future. (Author/CM)

Knowledge of a student's ability to handle a specific text can help teachers choose appropriate materials for instruction and can help ensure maximum classroom effectiveness. The Vocational Reading Competency-Based Teacher Education Project contains self-paced modules which outline concepts and offer classroom techniques to aid teachers in this…