This first in a series of six learning modules on instructional evaluation is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in identifying and establishing the criteria for student performance and relating these criteria to other steps in the instructional process. The terminal objective for the module is to establish…

This fifth in a series of six learning modules on instructional evaluation is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in developing a basis for assigning grades to students and devising efficient procedures for arriving at these grades. The terminal objective for the module is to determine student grades in an actual…

This fifth in a series of six learning modules on student vocational organizations is designed to assist secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in developing additional supervision and management techniques needed to ensure that the student vocational organization is functioning smoothly and effectively. Introductory sections relate the…

This third in a series of eleven learning modules on program planning, development, and evaluation is designed to develop secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers' skills in analyzing, reporting, and disseminating community survey data. Introductory sections relate the competencies dealt with here to others in the program and list both the…

This third in a series of ten learning modules on coordination of cooperative education is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teacher-coordinators aid in (1) promoting student interest in the cooperative program, (2) helping students gather information about themselves in order to determine whether the cooperative program fits…

A project was undertaken to develop a catalog of professional and technical competencies needed by a teacher to teach all areas of industrial arts given in the Texas State Board of Education-approved revised curriculum as well as to define and recommend guidelines for implementation of competency testing for industrial arts. Following a research…

This monograph relates the evolution, current status, issues, trends, and future perspective of undergraduate physical education teacher education (P.E.T.E.). The first section offers an historical overview of the profession. Preparation programs and curricula are described as they have progressed from the middle of the nineteenth century to the…

This module is one in a series of seven focused on skills vocational teachers need to develop and manaqe programs that are performance-based and fully individualized. Designed to allow for individualization of a teacher education program, these modules supplement those prepared by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education for…

Achievement and maintenance of high quality, relevant teacher education are two of the foreign language teaching profession's most pressing problems. Several of the responsibilities that the profession must assume in order to deal with these problems are improving the esteem for the profession, identifying professional commitment, controlling…

A preservice, competency-based teacher education program is presented in this special education program and curriculum guide. Some of the behaviors required by the competencies include: assessing an individual child's learning abilities; working in a variety of educational settings; choosing a curriculum to teach children with different abilities;…

The purpose of this project was to assist selected vocational teacher education institutions in progressing toward implementing more fully functioning and broadly based performance-based teacher education (PBTE) programs. PBTE implementation problems, strategies, and solutions were identified and documented for use as a resource by others…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on regulatory agencies responsible for wholesomeness and quality of foods is the second in a set of five modules on consumer education related to foods and nutrition. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on occupational opportunities related to housing and interiors in a set of two modules on consumer education related to housing. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on operations and activities of a food service operation is the second in a set of three modules on occupational education relating to foods and nutrition. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on assembly line garment construction is the second in a set of three modules on occupational aspects of textiles and clothing. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see…