The purpose of this practicum was to provide a planned procedure for the student teacher training program at Schertz Elementary School during April and May of the 1973-74 school year. The preceding teacher training program contained an excessive number of weaknesses, primarily involving lack of direction for the student teacher and lack of…

This document is an internal proposal for the Intravisitation Program, to be added to the Fordham Advocacy Community Organizer Teacher Training Program. The underlying rationale for the program is that observation of creative and well-planned lessons would be of invaluable service to trainees. The intravisitation schedule would evolve after…

This practicum applies a modern systems approach to field work instruction. It is an experiment with an innovation in field teaching that addresses itself to three major problems that have been identified by social work educators. These are (1) integrating classroom and field work instruction; (2) providing an equal opportunity for basic field…

The University of Maryland received the distinguished achievement award for its development and implementation of the Teacher Education Center concept as a unified approach to the study of teaching and supervision. Recognition awards were also given to (1) The University of New Mexico for its New Elementary Teacher Education Program combining the…

A 7-week summer institute for 27 social studies teachers from secondary schools serving the disadvantaged black populations in the larger cities of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio was designed to provide needed knowledge and skill to improve student performance. Basic components were (1) a socio-historical academic course, "The Negro in the Americas";…

Most counselor trainees do not know how to help clients elaborate their own unique meanings in life. To provide experiences to overcome this, the author has attempted to do the following in the practicum: (1) provide a simulated client experience for the trainee by having each individual in the group react to an emotional simulation sequence and…

A questionnaire was administered to student teachers, supervising teachers, principals, and college supervisors to ascertain functions which were actually performed and those most desired by the respondents with regard to the role of the college supervisor. The respondents were participating in student teaching experiences in the state of Georgia…

Five career education institutes were conducted in West Virginia for 128 superintendents, principals, directors of vocational education, curriculum specialists, and guidance personnel representing 30 counties in the State. The general objective of the institutes was to provide meaningful information and experience upon which educators in local…

This study determined the effectiveness of the use of radio as a means of providing immediate feedback on student counselors in a practicum setting. Using a non-equivalent group experimental design, 10 experimental subjects were compared to 10 control subjects with respect to counselor effectiveness. The experimental subjects were given immediate…

This study reexamines the relationship between the Sixteen-Personality Factor (16-PF) Questionnaire and counselor performance ratings. Results of this study and the reanalysis of previous studies indicate that it would not be advisable at this time for counselor educators to identify or predict effective counselors on the basis of the 16-PF.…

Neighborhood Youth Corps participants (N=250) experienced group counseling over a 10-week period. Approximately half of the groups were conducted by five counselors who were supervised by a practicum instructor, and the remainder of the groups were led by unsupervised counselors. The participants in the supervised counseling groups were more…

Describes a sequence of six practicums in an early childhood teacher education program that provides a variety of field-based experiences with children, the children's families, and the community. (RL)

Two factors in the relationship between counselor education programs and elementary and secondary schools have provided continuing issues of contention. First is the debate between the idealism assigned to counselor education programs and the realism encountered in the school setting. A second factor addresses the concept that training…

Identified are information and goals important to supervisory teachers in student-teacher training programs. (GW)

Two experienced intern supervisors discuss aspects of the management of undergraduate psychology intern programs. Included are concerns about credit and grades, selection procedures, faculty supervisors, and liability and malpractice insurance problems. (Author/AV)