Ensuring a quality early field experience depends upon adequate supervision and training of preservice teachers in the schools where they are placed. Structured activities emphasizing important concepts and skills can serve as the basis for a viable early field experience program. Six guidelines for implementing structured activities are…

This article describes how St. Cloud State University solved a number of its growth problems, related to increased teacher education program enrollment, by utilizing a district/university partnership model that springs from an active field experience program. (IAH)

The main criteria acknowledged by institutions responding to this survey on selecting exploratory field experience sites for prospective teachers are concerns of availability of key site personnel and proximity of the site to the campus. Student needs and interests and the quality of the program available are secondary. (JD)

This article describes a middle level teacher preparation program, Teaching Early Adolescents in Middle Schools (TEAMS). This collaborative program provides field experiences that utilize mentors and interdisciplinary teams to help preservice teachers develop the instructional and interpersonal skills needed to work effectively with early…

An overview is presented of the development of teacher centers and issues and problems that will face the centers in the future are discussed. (JD)

Traces the evolution of the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Profession's teacher education program into a fifth-year extended internship model that culminates in a Masters degree in teaching. The program, developed cooperatively by university faculty and public school teachers and administrators, partners university faculty…