UNDERSTANDING OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION  PART IV  BY MARY MCGARR:

Understanding Outcome Based Education   Part IV

The following is a list of programs and concepts that have been linked to OBE.  It seems that anything new, unproven, or controversial seems to fall under the negative effects of OBE. That fact attests to the wacky nature of the effort. Nothing is tried and true over a long span of years.  The programs get tried, they get discarded because they do not work, and then years later, here they come again!

Site-based Management                                  Whole Language

Inclusion                                                        Team Teaching

Individualized Education Plans                        Cooperative Learning

Peer Tutoring                                                Thematic Teaching

Year-round Schooling                                    Writing Portfolios

Multi-age Grouping                                        Multi-year Improvement Plans

Mastery Learning                                           Performance Based Education

Glasser's Reality Therapy                               Competency Learning

Management By Objectives (MBO)                Planning Program Budgeting Systems

Total Quality Management (TQM)                  Accelerated Schools

Effective Schools                                           Comer Schools

Johnson City Schools                                     Schools for the 21st Century

Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools              Professional Development Schools

Outcomes-driven Developmental Model           Ungraded Primary Classrooms

Coalition School for Social Change                 Charter Schools

Professional Development Programs                Consensus Building and Collaboration

Continual Assessment of Growth and Development     Block Scheduling