Background: The student teaching internship is the culminating experience and has been cited as the most significant, exciting, and difficult experience teacher candidates will encounter throughout their entire teacher preparation program. In order to prepare business teacher candidates for their internships, it is critical to understand the…

The study identified, compared, and reported the various student teaching and internship programs in business within the North-Central area of the National Business Association. (SA)

Seventy-four percent of 145 deans of collegiate business schools surveyed have internship programs. They identified many advantages and benefits as well as problems such as extra time for program completion. Interns benefited companies by completing special projects, and internships served as recruiting tools and forged stronger relationships with…

Indications point to an increasing professionalism of business teachers at all levels in the 1970's. Videotaping techniques, microteaching, newer developments in student-teaching approach (including internship) are providing opportunity for teachers to become sophisticated analysts of teaching-learning behaviors. (Author)