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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED224623 AUTHOR: Stile, Stephen W.; Wachtel, William J.
TITLE: Competency-Based Inservice Training for Personnel
Serving Handicapped Preschoolers. Final Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1982
NOTE: 122 p.
ABSTRACT: Teachers who have been trained to work with
normal young children (early childhood certification) or
with older handicapped children (special education
certification) are often unprepared to assume the multiple
responsibilities of the teacher of preschool handicapped
children. The purpose of this project was to address this
need by implementing and maintaining a competency-based
inservice training program within the College of Education
at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The project's
service delivery model was designed to reflect the state's
rural remoteness (e.g., summer campus-based training with
field-based academic year "special problems" follow-up) and
tricultural diversity. During the second and third years of
the project, 28 leadership personnel were brought to the
NMSU campus for 5 weeks of intensive didactic and
"hands-on" inservice instruction. In-state tuition and
$75-a-week traineeships were provided by the project. The
majority of these personnel (representing 23 or 72% of New
Mexico's 32 counties) are currently providing inservice
training upon request in their own or contiguous counties
and employing project-acquired competencies in their home
programs. Among project-supported activities were provision
of a regional infant, toddler, and preschool education of
the handicapped conference attended by 74 New Mexico
preschool personnel and development of of a materials
collection within NMSU's College of Education. (Author)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Bilingualism-; Cultural-Pluralism;
Delivery
Systems; Disabilities-; Early-Childhood-Education; Federal
Programs; Higher-Education; Program-Descriptions; Program
Development; Special-Education
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Competency-Based-Teacher-Education;
*Inservice-Teacher-Education; *Models-;
*Preschool-Teachers;
*Rural-Areas; *Special-Education-Teachers
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