Differentiated instruction occurs when teachers use students' level of readiness, interests, and learning preferences to adjust the content, process, or products, which increases engagement and academic performance. However, teachers cannot offer every form of differentiation to every student all the time. There exist limits of resources as well…

Performance of competency-based learning activities during field experience provided for: (1) the elimination of learning gaps and redundant information; (2) an increase in school-university cooperation; (3) more objective evaluation of teaching-as-career by the student; and (4) facilitation of criterion-referenced assessment based on individual…

It is ironic that nonprofessionals are able to discern the essential inadequacies of performance-based teacher education at the same time that proponents within the profession betray a shockingly superficial conception of the nature of teaching. (Author)

The author presents humanistically-oriented evaluation criteria for the assessment of college supervisors, supervising teachers, and student teachers in a competency-based teacher education setting. (MJB)

The competency-based approach is used in teaching educational measurement during a five-week summer session. (SK)

When competency based teacher education programs involve student teaching, they may have as great an impact on changing practicing teachers' behavior as upon the student teacher. (PB)

The question of the effectiveness of CBTE is discussed by way of definition, a look at its generating forces, the responses to CBTE, its immediate impact, and its long term impact. (MM)

A study was initiated to determine how preservice teachers would rate selected teacher competencies on relative importance and learning potential. Grooming and health, subject matter knowledge, and classroom maintenance were considered most learnable. Important competencies were respecting students, showing maturity, and showing interest in…