The Sleight Clinician Anxiety Test (SCAT) was developed to rate the anxiety of speech language pathology students during their practicum. Items were selected based on writings in speech language pathology, education and psychology and four areas previously identified as of concern to new practitioners: (1) living up to supervisory standards, (2)…

A two-part instrument for evaluating education students in the practicum has been developed. Part 1 is designed to assess the student teacher's definition of instructional objectives, while Part 2 focuses on his implementation of those objectives. The student teacher is given both performance and explication ratings. Performance level is evaluated…

As a result of program weaknesses found in a 1967 study of the counselor education program at Michigan State University, a new model entitled "systematic counseling" was developed. It has now been used with over 700 trainees and 6,000 clients in supervised practicum settings. Briefly, systematic counseling represents an organized means of…

A study was conducted to determine the effects of three university supervisory approaches on the development of classroom techniques common to a specific teaching strategy. The 20 subjects, student teachers who had been introduced in a methods course to the inductive indirect teaching strategy desirable for science teachers, underwent three…

A teacher education program has been designed to (1) illustrate a process for creating teacher education programs and (2) provide an example of one which is designed to prepare educators who will have the skill and commitment to help create and test new educational forms. The rationale is the idea that professional performance can be described in…

This is one of a series which focuses on innovations in the training and supervision of counselors. It discusses micro-counseling by providing: (1) a definition of the procedure; (2) a description of models of practice; (3) a discussion of the effects of using micro-counseling; (4) suggestions for possible applications of the procedure; and (5)…

A survey of the Moorpark College (California) faculty was conducted to determine their preferences in relation to early semester calendars that would permit the completion of final examinations before the Christmas vacation. The survey asked for a response to the calendar in use and to two alternative plans: Plan A--an early semester academic…

To determine the ratio between the number of students who had been specifically trained in methods of effective study to the number of students who had not been trained, a questionnaire was administered to 438 first-semester summer students at College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas. The results of the survey showed the ratio to be 1 student…

To determine what is being done in a certain geographical area in providing educational services for prison inmates through the community colleges, education programs at the Federal Prison Camp, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and the Federal Correctional Institution at Tallahassee, Florida, were studied. In addition, information about the…

This segment of the Early Childhood Library Specialist Program is known as the parent/child project and it functions as a model to demonstrate how library oriented institutions can work with parents and their children, and serves as an agent for the dissemination of information to parents and young children. The parent/child project attempts to…

This paper outlines a model for an internship program for counselor preparation. The design is based on a one-year program and has two major divisions. The first division includes six structural components of the model, and the second comprises five areas of counselor competencies. (Author)

A model is presented of "clinical supervision" in student teaching whereby stress is put on classroom observation, analysis of in-class events, and teachers' and students' in-class behavior. A form to guide data collection and analysis is included. (KR)

Described is Project APSE (Action Planning in Special Education), an alternative approach to special education teacher training in which graduate students plan a diagnostic and remedial program for children referred with possible learning disabilities within the school setting. (CL)