A growing body of research has identified teacher residency's potentials for improving and sustaining preservice teacher learning through a stronger district-university partnership. Drawing on sensemaking perspectives on education policy implementation, this qualitative case study examines how a variety of university and district stakeholders make…

This study investigates how the culminating teacher preparation program (TPP) experience (either student teaching assignment or internship) influences the perceptions teachers report about their ability to perform instructional tasks required of teachers. A multivariate ANOVA test (N = 502) was conducted to compare perceptions of student teachers…

This study investigated the following question: To what extent and in what ways might using video help interns reflect on their discussion-based teaching in a more complex manner than when they use memory-based written reflection? Three elementary interns participated in the study. Findings suggest that video-supported reflection enabled interns…

A description of the Temple University Intern Teaching Program for College Graduates. (MM)

The internship component of the five-year teacher preparation program at University of New Hampshire is described. Two assumptions central to the internship are: (1) skills and concepts are best introduced in the context of field experience, and (2) interns' concerns about learning to teach occur in a predictable pattern. (IAH)

The time is right, it is argued, for the professionalization of teaching, with teachers controlling the certification process. Also recommended is a four-year degree followed by a one-year masters program and a one-year school-based internship. Implications of the professionalization of teaching are discussed. (MT)

An internship/residency model of teacher education was developed by the California Consortium on the Beginning Years of Teaching. A successful initiation of the model and problems that prevented implementation elsewhere are described. (DF)

Describes program involving New York State University College at Brockport and Rochester public schools. (RT)

This article describes a model for conducting collaborative, goal-oriented conferences with student interns to enable them to acquire the skills of beginning teachers. The procedures and rationale of the Supervised Throughput Model are described, and suggestions for its application are made. (JL)

The Lincoln, Nebraska, Teacher Corps' contracting process offers an effective model for team teaching, individualizing/personalizing instruction, and demonstrating both teacher and learner levels of competency. (JMF)

During the past three years the state of Nevada has joined the escalating effort nationwide to extend preservice teacher preparation through the development of a fifth-year internship. The early history of the fifth-year internship and the influence of national conceptual learning upon the internship design are discussed. (JN)