Fifteen preservice teachers involved in a peer microteaching experience and 20 preservice teachers involved in a field experience were compared to determine: 1) their knowledge of, confidence in performing, and attitude toward teaching skills; 2) performance during student teaching; and 3) attitude toward preparatory coursework taken. Results are…

This study describes and evaluates the first year of a 2-year masters degree urban teacher education program. The first year consists of four separate components, each of which is evaluated separately on the basis of previously stated objectives. The first component, Community Orientation and Study, involves a 6-week living experience in the inner…

A micro team teaching project was designed to give student teachers an increased responsibility for planning, executing, and evaluating an instructional program; to provide classroom teachers who had not previously taught in a teaching team with the opportunity to learn about the dynamics of team teaching through organizing teams of their own; to…