This longitudinal case study examines whether a school-based training scheme that brings together different categories of teacher educators (university supervisors and cooperating teachers) engenders true collective training activity and, if so, whether this collective work contributes to pre-service teacher education. The scheme grew out of a…

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…

Address presented at the College of Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during the autumn of 1971. (DS)

This document describes the Secondary Teacher Education Sequence at Nasson College, Springvale, Maine. Following a brief introduction, the organization of the program is outlined, with emphasis on the following objectives: a) an understanding of the underlying theories of successful teaching and learning; b) observation of the results of the…

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)

A study sought to determine the extent to which cooperating teachers' narrative comments on weekly observations reflect six categories of beginning teachers' competencies and to ascertain the relationships among cooperating teachers' narrative comments, their midterm evaluations of student teachers, and their final evaluation of student teachers.…

The study described in this report examined an attempt to reshape student teacher supervision during the practicum experience by adding a more collaborative dimension. Its purpose was to assess the impact of combination supervision (individual, group, collaborative) on the development of student teachers' perceptions of themselves as teachers, of…