Describes how a student teacher used the Comprehensive Musicianship approach to introduce high school choruses to contemporary music. Choir students participated in the entire composition process from text selection to musical analysis of a choral work. Student discussion of the completed work reinforced their understanding of musical principles.…

Students at Walton High School in the Bronx, New York, can enroll in a preteaching academy to study and experience the role of the teacher. (Author/TE)

Presents seven goals to work toward achieving during the student teaching experience. This advice is provided to help student teachers ascertain their suitability to the teaching profession. (MD)

Just because teacher educators have more letters after their names is no reason they shouldn't find ways to continue interacting with children. In this article the author shares his thoughts on the matter and offers suggestions for how faculty members can maintain firsthand experience in the schools.

The amount of instructional time lost to transitional activities by student teachers, and techniques to minimize this time loss, are discussed. Time lost is estimated to average 9 percent, varying with the individual teacher. Suggestions are given for teacher supervisors to help student teachers optimize their class time. (MSE)

This book, addressed to college instructors of education and to cooperating teachers supervising student teachers, presents information describing methods and strategies for providing effective student teaching experiences. The chapters address: (1) decision making regarding the choice and responsibility of having a student teacher; (2) clinical…

A student teacher describes his experiment to foster experiential learning in a secondary sociology class by allowing the students to determine their own classroom society and teaching and evaluation methods. He also describes the unfavorable reaction of his cooperating teacher. (NEC)

The chapters in this book reflect the work of science and mathematics educators who have worked for many years at the international level. As members of the International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education, their work provides readers with issues, models, practices, and research results that have applicability and…

Although microteaching has proved to be a valuable training tool for preservice education majors, some microteaching programs have been curtailed primarily because of the time and expense of maintaining the facilities. An abbreviated four-lesson program for microteaching can be conducted effectively with minimum time and moderate costs. The first…

This article contains a supervisory development plan, which discusses the skill development and interrelationships of supervisors, cooperating teachers, and student teachers during the student teaching experience. Effective supervisory skills are necessary if the student teacher is to improve his professional work. (CJ)

An alternative to traditional student teaching uses the philosophy proposed by the Holmes Group. Professional development teams, under the leadership of teacher educators from the University of Kentucky, provided supervision for prospective teachers in a master's program and jointly participated in professional development activities. (MDH)

A theoretical framework for the preparation of teachers through clinical laboratory experiences is presented. Four teacher roles and six purposes of clinical experiences are identified and arranged on an intersecting matrix, which can be a basis for designing clinical experience packages that integrate theory and practice. A sample package is…

Presented are five rules for successful student teaching experiences (practica), designed around clear communication with college supervisors, cooperating institutions, and the student teachers themselves. (KC)

Describes a program in operation since 1972 which enables university students from Newfoundland to do student teaching in England. Reports results of a survey that asked the program's first participants to evaluate, in retrospect, the strengths and weaknesses of that cross-cultural teaching experience. (JHZ)

Describes Brigham Young University's elementary rural teacher training program which has successfully provided rural student teaching experiences for over 250 prospective teachers since 1973. Details live-in experience, financial structure, reciprocal benefits, and school district-university cooperation in teacher preparation. (NEC)