Setting tasks plays a key role in geography lessons, as they enable students to engage with the subject content, guide lessons towards predefined learning outcomes, and are therefore important for assessment. At the same time, the use of tasks is complex as numerous aspects regarding the content and the students have to be taken into account.…

Describes strategy for helping student-teachers systematically and consciously plan their lessons using sequence "overview, prime, drill, and check." Author believes this method reduces new teacher insecurity and can be used as means of analyzing the teaching and learning accomplished in class. (Author/BK)

The observation period traditionally has served as a time of transition between the study of educational theory and the actual practice of teaching. It has been a time for the trainee to observe--unpressured--the teaching process and to note important teacher-learner behavior. Observation in teacher training--as in medical school--is an art; it…

Sixty-five student-teachers' performance was tested to determine laboratory grades. Grading was based on Category Observation System TDS. Since TDS categories are structures of two ordered facts where order has the same meaning, general score of pupil stimulation was computer calculated. Students' previous awareness as to score calculation enabled…

CLOSE COOPERATION IS NEEDED BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ENGAGED IN PREPARING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS IF STUDENT TEACHING IS TO BE AN EFFECTIVE PHASE OF THIS TRAINING. MEANINGFUL SUPERVISION OF THE STUDENT TEACHER REQUIRES LONG-RANGE PLANNING BETWEEN THE SUPERVISING TEACHER IN THE COLLEGE AND THE COOPERATING TEACHER IN THE SCHOOL WHO, AS…

THIS FACTOR ANALYTIC STUDY OF OSCAR (OBSERVATION SCHEDULE AND RECORDS) SCORES FOR CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR EMPLOYED RATINGS BY SUPERVISING FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE CLASSROOM BEHAVIORS OF 115 STUDENT TEACHERS AND THEIR PUPILS ON THREE OCCASIONS APPROXIMATELY 1 MONTH APART. FIVE FACTORS WHICH COULD BE INTERPRETED AS INDEPENDENT ASPECTS OF TEACHER AND PUPIL…

This article presents guidelines to be used by student teachers for developing observational skills in field experience situations. Suggested topics for observation include: classroom arrangement, classroom interaction, teacher movement, social interaction, analysis of teaching techniques, classroom control, and participant-observers' involvement.…

This handbook was prepared by 22 members of the student teaching staff of Michigan State University (MSU) as an attempt to provide concrete suggestions to assist supervising (cooperating) teachers who work with MSU student teachers. There are 10 chapters: (1) "Introduction and Goals," (2) "Roles and Responsibilities in a Cooperative…

Two questions regarding supervision of student teachers are addressed here: who should supervise, and how can it be done most skillfully? Cooperating teachers might best be trained to supervise. Supervision techniques might include analyzing classroom events and the student teachers' anxieties and needs. A supervision model is developed. (CHK)

TO DETERMINE THE RANGE OF COGNITIVE OBJECTIVES IMPLICIT IN THE QUESTIONS ASKED BY STUDENT TEACHERS AND THEIR PUPILS IN HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSES, 44 CLASSES WERE OBSERVED ACCORDING TO THE TEACHER PUPIL QUESTION INVENTORY (TPQI) DEVELOPED BY THE INVESTIGATORS. THE TPQI REQUIRES A 30-MINUTE CLASSROOM OBSERVATION DIVIDED INTO ALTERNATING…

Two student teacher evaluation methods used by the University of Toledo are the Classroom Observation Keyed for Effectiveness Research Instrument (COKER) and the Teacher Performance Assessment Instrument (TPAI). The COKER is an objectively administered low inference system for recording teacher and student interactions in the classroom. (The form…

An intensive remedial program of teaching skills is used in the Irish College of Education to improve the practical teaching performance of student teachers. A description of this program, which includes students' assessment of the program, is offered. (Author/DF)

Teacher evaluation is required before, during, and immediately after preservice education to insure a high level of teacher accountability. Personal motivation must be understood before one chooses the profession. Admission criteria to teacher preparation programs must be strengthened so that only proper candidates are selected. Professional…

A long-term Leverhulme Research Project was established at Stirling University in 1970 to investigate the potential of microteaching as a major ingredient in the preparation of graduate high school teachers in Scotland. Members of the research team developed systematic observation schedules for each of the skills, in order to sharpen the focus of…