Competency Based Teacher Training Programs for Teachers of the Visually Handicapped *

Abstract

Examines ways of defining competency based teacher training and notes some practical difficulties of establishing competency based programs. Among the difficulties are fitting self-pacing into the traditional university semester system, writing explicit behavioral objectives and setting criteria levels, designing curricula that provide individual learning programs and logical learning sequences, and grading competent behavior. Describes the concept of Generic Preparation as practiced at the California State University, Los Angeles.