Notes the changing role of technology in education and society and explores the increased use of educational technology with its sophisticated simplicity, new skills development, and the humanizing, freeing effect of technology mastery. (RAO)

The alternatives suggested here are options that school districts could consider without committing additional resources and without extensive preplanning. They suggest a variety of approaches to introducing greater creativity and flexibility in a school system. (Author)

A new model for preservice teacher education exemplifies recent developments in the field. It is based on specifications of instructional and program goals in terms of behaviors to be exhibited by the trainee in three broad conceptual areas which imply a hierarchy of teaching competencies: mastery of content knowledge produces subject matter…

Several potential innovations in teacher preparation are suggested as means for improving the spirit and process" of education. (JH)

Microteaching, a technique for training teachers to develop specific teaching skills through the use of a scaled down classroom situation, has proved to be not only effective but also strongly appealing to teachers. A state-of-the-art paper entitled "Microteaching: History and Present Status" prepared by the authors for the ERIC…

Without the restraint of the textbook the teacher can become editor and decision maker, using journal articles, books, laboratory exercises and multi-media packages, to go well beyond the level of any available text. (Editor/IR)

This state-of-the art paper summarizes the history of microteaching's development and its rationale, the many uses of microteaching, and the research evidence on microteaching--a training procedure which has become an established element in the programs of many colleges, universities, and school districts in the education of various groups of…

The Center for Study of Educational Innovations (CSEI), University of Massachusetts, through working relationships with different types of field testing schools, will experiment with research, development, and implementation in four areas: institutional structures, curriculum development, instructional strategies, and teacher education. High…

This proposal for a model curriculum based on conceptions of performance criteria (behavioral objectives) consists of nine sections: (1) the rationale for a new professionalism in education; (2) the general structure, function, and assumptions of the proposed program; (3) performance criteria as a planning principle for developing teaching skill…