This module, one in a series of performance-based teacher education learning packages, focuses on skills that vocational educators and other occupational trainers need to teach successfully at the secondary and postsecondary levels. The purpose stated for the module is to help educators become competent in organizing the vocational laboratory.…

This ninth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers assistance in determining how the project method applies to their service area and in planning and implementing this method effectively. The terminal objective for the module is to employ the project…

Described is an evaluation report, the Habilitation Personnel Training Project, designed to develop a model and materials for training secondary special education personnel such as classroom teachers and work study coordinators. The objectives of the project, which were carried out by the University of Kansas, are given in the introductory section…

This tenth in a series of ten learning modules on coordination of cooperative education is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teacher-coordinators skills to guide students in planning and conducting a successful employer-employee appreciation event (a social event at which food is served and some form of ceremony or…

This eighth in a series of eight learning modules on professional role and development is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers skill to supervise student teachers in a vocational education program--guiding them through the student teaching experience and evaluating their progress. The terminal objective for the module…

This study was conducted to determine those competencies considered most important by cooperating teachers, student interns, and school of education faculty. Competencies from various sources were combined to form a master list of sixty-five competencies. One-hundred participants were given numbered cards with a competency printed on each. Their…

A preliminary report on changes in Pennsylvania State University's College of Education program for secondary teachers is given through essays written by faculty members. Two papers on theoretical models explore the basis for implementing changes in teacher education programs. An analysis of five stages in the development of novice teachers is…

Generic teaching knowledge and skill is seen as a central component of preservice teacher education programs. Generic domains of teaching are the common base of knowledge and skills important to all teachers regardless of subject matter or grade level. Most classifications of generic teaching skills fall generally into one of two categories, one…

This book has a threefold purpose. First, it provides a problem-solving framework for comprehensively analyzing and attacking current weaknesses in both pre- and in-service teacher education. Next, it explains how this approach can be applied by providing concrete examples of procedures and products appropriate to each of three problem-solving…

This module is one in a series of seven focused on skills vocational teachers need to develop and manage 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…

This report describes a project the assignment of which was (1) to clarify the needs for baccalaureate programs through which industrial education teachers could be prepared to teach handicapped and disadvantaged children and (2) to develop a model from which appropriate curricula could be developed. In chapter 1 the project background is…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on cultural food patterns is the fourth 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 and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on influences on food prices is the fifth 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 and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on applications and implications of new technology in textiles and clothing is the fourth in a set of four modules on consumer education related to textiles and clothing. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on the relationship between spending patterns and interpersonal relationships is the second in a set of five modules on consumer education related to human development. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer…