This article describes a unique approach to developing and delivering the curriculum for an experimental program that prepares STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates for teaching in high-needs secondary schools. The context for the collaborative design--including the charge, personnel, and purpose of the program--is…

A nonverbal training module for a Teaching Laboratory was developed for and tested with secondary teacher-candidates enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin teacher education program. The unit, employing an awareness approach, was administered to 17 students in the experimental group immediately preceding the last of a series of required…

This experimental junior-year teacher education program at the School of Education of the University of Virginia has been open to a sample of junior-year students for the past 2 years and is currently in its third year of field experience as an integration of theory and practice. It has served as a vehicle for developing and attempting to…

An experimental competency based teacher training program that used a modular approach succeeded in giving student teachers an added sense of security.

This document provides part of a final report to the Scottish Education Department on a study of student teachers' observations of and interviews with cooperating teachers. The purpose of the research was to help student teachers acquire an understanding of and control over teaching methods. The findings are from experiments with three samples of…

This document describes a two-year elementary teacher education program conducted jointly by the Madison Metropolitan School District and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The program focused on developing more effective strategies for school-university collaboration in preparing students to teach effectively a racially, ethnically, and…