Use these practical recommendations to mentor, guide, and support teacher candidates you are hosting in your classroom through four stages of clinical practice.

Launched in 1993, The Teachers College at Emporia State University began its first Professional Development School (PDS) partnership and, since then, The Teachers College has continued to provide high-impact learning opportunities for teacher candidates--including several unique four-week student teaching placements described in this article.…

At a time when there is great emphasis on teacher quality and the preparation of excellent teachers, this portrait explores the process of one such aspiring teacher, Katie, in the fall of her full-year student-teaching internship. Her mentoring teacher, Kristen, is a veteran fifth-grade teacher at a small elementary school in New Hampshire who…

The student teaching seminar is a crucial component in the final course work of the music education curriculum, though research that examines the structure and content of this important course is minimal. In this article, we provide in-depth descriptions of sample seminar activities, assessments, resources, and suggestions for creating a…

Recent reports call for a structural transformation of teacher preparation programs with increased attention to quality field-based learning experiences for pre-service teachers. Ideally, this occurs in the context of robust university-school partnerships. The challenges lie in identifying such school sites and building meaningful, reciprocal…

An innovative 30-hour internship seminar has become a core part of the University of Regina's teacher preparation program. It successfully provides experiences to help cooperating teachers and interns: (1) build interpersonal relationships, (2) increase interns' professional growth, and (3) learn and practice supervisory processes. (JD)

The activity of working with a preservice teacher during an internship is a complex and intensive one representing a huge investment on the part of mentor teachers. Given this, it is not surprising that the effects on mentor teachers when their preservice teachers struggle or fail would be complex. We began to question how preservice teacher…

To address concerns that cooperating teachers are increasingly reluctant to relinquish control of their classrooms and curriculum decisions to student teachers, the senior internship program at one university was redesigned. The new model optimizes teacher-student interaction by following a teaming approach during the internship. The teaming model…

This brochure provides information about the Wisconsin Improvement Program's Teacher Intern Program, how it works, and how it can benefit all participants. Areas covered in the brochure include: (1) admission criteria; (2) the roles of program participants; (3) program organization; (4) participants' responsibilities; and (5) program costs. An…

A description is given of a project, called "A Collaborative Approach to Leadership in Supervision," initiated between the University of New Hampshire and several public schools. This project was designed to address: (1) the continuing preparation of principals who have primary responsibility for supervising and evaluating teachers as…

A campus-based education program for preservice students in secondary education that incorporates formal study with an active internship in the local schools is described. University faculty are primarily responsible for the campus-based learning experience while personnel of the local school district assume responsiblity for field-based site…

Describes field oriented teacher internship program for elementary education majors and discusses results of a questionnaire answered by cooperating teachers in this program. Results of the study provide direction for planning in-service courses for social studies teachers. (KC)

Ongoing efforts to include social contextual dynamics in research on mathematics education require theoretical frameworks that allow researchers to zoom their focus out to include the social sphere (Lerman, 1998). This is especially important when studying teacher development, as teachers learn in a wide variety of social contexts. Here we…

The teacher internship program presented in this report provides the teacher intern with a realistic, professional assignment which offers involvement in all phases of an educational program. This booklet describes the separate sections of the program: 1) personnel component, 2) experience of interning, 3) evaluation, 4) support services for…

Teacher education students placed in clinical settings for methods coursework need adequate guidance in order to make the most of their experiences. Guidance in terms of teaching, reflections, clinical settings, and other related activities offers these candidates a realistic view of teacher, teaching, and learning. Oftentimes, the clinical…