A new technique for teacher education has been developed in response to the belief that teacher education's number one priority is to be concerned with the emerging self of the teacher trainee. Research on effective teaching has revealed that it is not what the teacher is taught that is the critical factor but the way in which the knowledge and…

Describes a laboratory technique in which the complexities of normal classroom teaching are simplified. Lessons are reduced to five or fifteen minutes and are used for the practice of one particular teaching skill. Appended are 14 references. (AA)

Milligan College instituted an off-campus laboratory program for its student teachers. A team of classroom teachers works with the prospective teachers. At the sophomore level some observation and teaching is done by students who are then evaluated. During the junior level a student is assigned one child to aid in reading abilities for 5 weeks.…

This monograph, divided into three sections, describes minicourses, outlines their possible application, presents reports from three teacher training institutions that demonstrated minicourses in conjunction with their Teacher Corps programs, and suggests guidelines for minicourse utilization in teacher education. The first section discusses the…

Recognizing the need for trained teachers to enter the classroom with confidence and professional capacity, Walla Walla College introduced a Child Psychology Experience program. Personnel from several departments contribute to this program. In connection with the child psychology courses, the project features a laboratory/demonstration center…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether instructional behavior learned during a series of simulated teaching experiences using peers as students would transfer to a setting in which "real" pupils were students. Subjects were 44 undergraduate students in the secondary education program at the University of Texas at Austin. Each…

The effects of two kinds of lab experience in pre-student teaching education was the focus of a study on the development of oral language in elementary schools. The subjects were lower level college students in the course "Speech in the Elementary Schools." Two sections of the course were used, one in the fall quarter and one in the winter…

The purposes of this research were to review state standards relating to professional laboratory and field experiences, and to suggest changes which seem warranted in view of the best research and practice available. Both current standards and recommendations are discussed. (MT)

A program at the University of Florida seeks to narrow the gap between theory and practice in teacher education. (Editor/HS)

Reports that 51 elementary teachers in this in-service training program improved in their attitudes toward children, teaching, and interpersonal relationships. (This study is based upon a doctoral dissertation completed at the University of California at Los Angeles.) (DR)

This manual provides a set of tasks for use in the microteaching context of a Teaching Laboratory to be used in teaching pupils an approach to problem solving. The introduction describes the contents and functioning of the Teaching Laboratory and the way in which the manual should be used. Details of five lessons are then given. The first lesson…

With the use of classroom simulations, theory and field research can be synthesized, thus bringing both theory and research into an "action" form for the education student. Interactive computer systems allow for active involvement and immediate feedback. One classroom simulation, already constructed, is described. For this simulation a…