This research addresses lack of student teaching preparation. There is strong evidence that beginning teachers are not trained to adequately teach students due to their lack of preparation/content knowledge. The purpose of this study is to examine the experience of beginning teachers to try to understand why student teachers are not prepared for…

This study attempts to identify the opinions of social studies cooperating teachers toward student teacher placement, role relationships, evaluation, and inservice education. The hypothesis for this study was that northeast Missouri social studies cooperating teachers' opinions toward student teacher placement and evaluation would indicate that…