This fourth in a series of ten learning modules on coordination of cooperative education is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teacher coordinators skill in (1) locating training stations to access, (2) selecting training stations utilizing criteria established, and (3) convincing employers at selected training stations to…

This report describes the rationale for competency-based vocational teacher education, and a methodology by which synthesized competency lists for the preparation of vocational and career education personnel at various levels were developed during Phase 1 of a project to examine the applicability of competency-based teacher education to…

One hundred and twenty-four learning activities designed to give Child Development Associate (CDA) trainees many opportunities to practice and demonstrate knowledge of child development and related skills are provided in this training module. Section One of the module consists of 21 general learning activities that enable the trainee to develop…

This study was undertaken to provide the College of Education at Idaho State University with data regarding the directions appropriate for its teacher education mission. Information was obtained from six groups: (1) students beginning the teacher education program; (2) students completing the student teaching experience; (3) cooperating teachers;…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on procedures for selecting a community is the second in a set of six modules on consumer education related to housing. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019…

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

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on developing occupational programs is the second in a set of four core modules on establishing occupational programs. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on evaluating occupational programs is the fourth in a set of four core modules on establishing occupational programs. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019…

Planning procedures, major activities, program design, and results of the first phase (January through June 1978) of a long-term effort to implement a performance-based approach to vocational education teacher education at Florida Technological University, Orlando, are described. In its operational form the program is expected to be a model for…

This volume, the fourth in a series of seven, contains the two learning modules which focus on the third Child Development Associate (CDA) competency, building positive self-concept and individual strength in young children, in the performance based curriculum of the Texas A & I Bilingual Bicultural Child Development Associate Training…

This is the second of four volumes reporting phase 2 of a two-phase project to examine the competency-based vocational teacher education movement and analyze the current state of the art (phase 1), and to assess the implications for preservice, inservice, and leadership level professional development programs in career and occupational education…

This module on assessing the job market and employment trends is one of a set of four providing an introduction to vocational education and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum intended for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics,…

The report examines the professional competencies needed by postsecondary and secondary school agricultural education instructors. A questionnaire covering 11 functions, 39 tasks, and 89 competencies was administered by mail to the 435 vocational agriculture instructors in Wisconsin, of Whom nearly two-thirds of the secondary school and…

The final report of the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Region II Adult and Continuing Education Staff Development Project, administered by Montclair State College, synthesizes the project's efforts for regionalization of staff development for New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Chapter 1 covers administrative…

The report describes the project's design, initial efforts, and revised objectives toward the development of a regional adult staff development system. Three elements were perceived to be essential to such a system: a regional consortium organization to effectively implement competency-based adult staff development programs, State-by-State and…