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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED091389 AUTHOR: Wynn, Cordell
TITLE: A Position Paper on Teacher Competencies for
Cultural
Diversity in Connection with the AACTE Multicultural
Education/Competency-Based Teacher Education Project.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1974
NOTE: 29 p.
ABSTRACT: The objective of teacher education programs
should be to assist prospective teachers in developing
competencies needed to intervene successfully in the
development of youth from diverse cultural backgrounds.
This objective has a number of implications for teacher
education programs and for school curriculum at all levels.
Teacher education institutions must: (a) develop programs
that reflect the defined skills, attitudes, and experiences
required of individual living and learning in a pluralistic
society; (b) replace subordinate content objectives with
behavioral objectives; (c) employ, in the full range of
positions, faculty and administrators from all ethnic
groups; (d) implement training components that provide for
competencies needed in cross/cultural and minority
teaching/learning situations; and (e) assist school
districts in establishing teaching/learning effectiveness
centers to provide for the upgrading of professional
competencies in the cognitive domain and to combine
creativity with the ability to be a resource to the
learning process for all youth in a pluralistic society.
The schools must: (a) adopt a philosophy of continuous
progress, (b) select instructional resources that will
reflect multicultural education, (c) relieve the teacher of
nonteaching functions, and (d) provide opportunities within
the school for the child to apply rational thinking to real
problems of living in a culturally diverse society. (This
document contains a 2-page bibliography and glossary of
competency-based teacher education terms.) (Author/HMD)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Educational-Change;
Educational-Objectives;
Nondiscriminatory-Education
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Competency-Based-Teacher-Education;
*Cultural-Pluralism; *Educational-Improvement; *Educational
Policy; *Teacher-Effectiveness
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