Prepare Yourself for CBE. Module K-1 of Category K--Implementing Competency-Based Education (CBE). Professional Teacher Education Module Series.

Overview & Synopsis

This module, one in a series of performance-based teacher education learning packages, focuses on a specific skill that vocational educators need to integrate competency-based education (CBE) into the vocational education curriculum. The purpose of the module is to help the instructor understand the educational philosophy on which CBE is based and how this is applied in practice, assess his/her readiness for CBE, and develop a plan for gaining the knowledge and skills he/she needs. Introductory material provides terminal and enabling objectives, prerequisites, a list of resources, and general information. The main portion of the module includes three learning experiences based on the enabling objectives. Each learning experience presents activities with information sheets, case studies, model critiques, inventories, worksheets, and checklists. Optional activities are provided. Completion of these three learning experiences should lead to achievement of the terminal objective through the fourth and final learning experience that provides for a teacher performance assessment by a resource person. An assessment form is included. (YLB)