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AFT Resolution

COMPETENCY BASED TEACHER EDUCATION

WHEREAS, there has been insufficient quantity/quality of Competency Based Teacher Education (CBTE) research and field testing, and consideration of the potentially pervasive effect CBTE may have on the total education system (elementary, secondary, and higher education) in the U.S.A., and the individual states; and

WHEREAS, we wholeheartedly believe that further extensive/intensive research and field testing of CBTE and other alternate approaches to teacher education should be effected prior to implementing CBTE programs as mandated by the State Education Departments to determine the relationships of performance to long-term effects on pupils, to adequately consider the implications for staff development and to provide sufficient lead time for professional discussion.

RESOLVED, that AFT demand that CBTE activity be suspended until such time as sufficient funding is provided by the various state departments to com­pensate properly the required participation in the mandated consortia.

(1976)

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