Book Review of Teaching for CompetenceFor my book review, I chose Teaching for Competence by Norman Higgins and Howard Sullivan. The authors believe that teachers and students will teach and learn more effectively using competency-based instruction or CBI. When using the CBI approach, teachers will clearly tell students the set goals, give effective types of teaching, and finally, teachers will evaluate students. When preparing your own objectives, they should be presented to students in a written form so that students can identify with these objectives throughout their studies. Class activities may be included in a summary but should not be confused with the written objective. The authors also suggest that goals should be valid and clearly stated to students. When writing objectives, certain verbs can be used to help convey meaning. For example, when used in testing instructions, the verb "select" asks students to perform a specific action that is observable and measurable, as opposed to a verb that might describe an internal state such as "analyze." The teacher can determine what content to apply to the objective. The goal should be a skill that the student could use in life and be able to use in the content. Competency-based teaching should lead to effective teaching on the part of the teacher. Therefore, if the teacher provides appropriate teaching to the students, they will in turn acquire a certain skill. In summarizing this section of the book, effective teaching must be presented clearly and concisely. The teacher must provide practices and feedback responses in order to achieve the goal that has been stated..