This evaluation report on the Teacher Corps is divided into three parts. The first part describes the past and present status of the organization, looking at a) origin and history, b) the 1974 amendments, c) current operations, d) staffing and financial data, e) scope, f) minority recruitment, and g) analysis of past evaluations. The second part…

Information is provided about various aspects of the clustering activities of the TTT program for 1969-70. Specific information about the purposes, means, and outcomes of clustering is presented, as is information about the organization of clusters and the extent of parity in TTT. The data was obtained from observations of meetings by evaluation…

A survey of the opportunities for the study of the 2-year college in 82 U.S. colleges' and universities' schools of education included the following information: courses offered, present and projected enrollment in courses, list of colleges and universities offering professional education courses and programs relating to the 2-year college, and a…

The University of New Hampshire Department of Education with federal support began in 1969 a tripartite graduate program for the preparation of early childhood specialists. Both experienced and beginning teachers may earn a masters degree while demonstrating theory in the classroom. After a summer of child study, graduate students in teams of two…

Studies of the teaching and learning process provide the basis for this research. The emphasis is on the nature of the tutorial interaction during the learning of complex material, with the eventual goal of being able to construct an automated, computer- controlled tutorial system. An active structural network (a type of semantic network) was used…

Representative of current junior college teacher preparation programs are those of the University of California at Los Angeles, Southern Illinois University, the University of South Florida, and Appalachian State University. UCLA has two programs: (1) the student teaching program in which a student is apprenticed to a master teacher for one course…

An overview of the issues, problems, successes, weaknesses, and implications of the process of preparing teachers for vocational education, the report contains discussions of the origin and evolution of teacher preparation, the professional development concept, nature of programs, management of teacher preparation, special problems, and future…

The purposes of this inquiry are to examine the area of community college professional personnel, to question the fitness of the community college instructor to fulfill the promise of the community college, and to assess the availability and quality of college preparation programs. Such topics are examined as new learning programs and practices in…

This report summarizes and assesses the history of the Mid-Career Teacher Education Study from the beginnings to plans for the future. The report also includes a detailed evaluation of the Enabling Teacher Education Program, carried out under the MTES. The report is divided into six sections including 1) the history and design of the MTES; 2) the…

A report on a project which places emphasis on classroom teachers as initiators and major developers of new Canadian studies curricula is presented in this monograph. A review of reported curriculum research focuses on these topics: teacher education institutions and curriculum development; teacher participation in national curriculum programs;…

The paper provides a brief survey of the rationale for and problems associated with performance-based teacher education (PBTE). Reviewing the research and activities of the Center for Vocational and Technical Education (Ohio State), the document identifies five elements that appear to distinguish PBTE from more traditional programs. These elements…

The Education Department of Mount Mercy College designed the following new model for teacher education. The "traditional innovations" like portal schools and the concepts set out in "Performance-Based Teacher Education: What is the State of the Art?" (SP 005475) were included in the model. In addition, a synthesis of the following were included in…

The performance of teachers is generally assumed to be a function of the quality of their own preparation. Unfortunately, traditional methods and procedures may not permit teacher educators to attain the level of effectiveness to which they aspire. One of the alternatives to traditional practices is competency-based teacher education (CBTE). The…

This directory for literacy workers and adult educators lists universities and institutes that offer training programs to literacy personnel in four geographic regions of the world. The directory contains four sections which are organized alphabetically by geographic region, by countries within each region, and by universities and institutes…

This publication contains speeches and discussions presented at the conference "Perceptual-Motor Development: Action with Interaction" held in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1970. The conference, sponsored by the Physical Education Division of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, provided educators with the…