The student teacher being supervised in the public school soon becomes a full time, licensed teacher. Student teaching is perceived to be the cap stone or final course in undergraduate preparation before entering the profession of being a teacher. It carries much responsibility for the cooperating teacher and the university supervisor in assisting…

Student teachers need to have high quality cooperating teachers as mentors for the development of the best reading teachers possible. The mentor needs to assist the student teacher to achieve diverse attitudes in the teaching of reading. First, the student teacher should be a consumer of reading materials with an appetite for reading. Second, the…

This paper discusses three methods of assessing student teacher performance: checklists; measurable objectives; and teaching performance tests. Checklists, recommended by some schools of education, need to contain a comprehensive set of knowledge, skills, and attitudinal behaviors pertaining to quality student teaching. Checklists permit a…