The challenge of preparing a preservice teacher who is to work with nonhandicapped children is considerable. Special adaptations made in training hearing-impaired persons to teach social studies is discussed, and the successes and problems of these students when they begin to teach social studies in the practicum setting are examined. (RM)

The primary aim of the program is to develop contexts in which prospective teachers can observe teaching-learning in action and can try innovative ideas under the guidance of a professional. (JH)

Describes a course given by the author at Cornell, "Practicum in Understanding Family Day Care". Includes rationale, student projects, and benefits to students and participating day care workers. (HS)

This qualitative study, grounded in Dewey's theory of experience, explores what six recent graduates claimed to learn from a university music teacher education program's methods course, early field experiences, and student teaching. These teachers identified common elements of learning from the course, although they shaped and applied those…

This paper examines the impact of a compulsory action research project requirement on a teacher education program restructured to provide preservice teacher candidates with an early extended practicum. Thirteen students doing preservice teaching in two high schools in Ontario, Canada, participated. Findings from the action research projects show…

This paper describes the development of a practicum designed to recruit and support teacher candidates from one district through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification. Potential candidates had been isolated in their pursuit of certification because there were no support groups, courses, or manuals specifically…

The usefulness of journals as a source of qualitative data in educational research was studied through journals kept by preservice teachers in an adolescent development course with a practicum component. Four journals were analyzed, two from preservice teachers assigned to project-centered classrooms and two from preservice teachers assigned to…

Describes a practicum course using videotape for artistic and self-discovery purposes. (CH)

The proposed contiguous model of applied experience woven with planned didactic sequences meets most of the professional training needs of school psychologists enrolled in the University of South Carolina Training Program. The student in the doctoral program will have acquired fundamental skills in four important areas of school psychology;…

To attain better learning environments and teaching procedures as suggested by recent research and studies related to language growth and its development, provision must be made for this new knowledge to become a part of teacher-education programs. (Author/MB)

Describes a project involving nondirective play therapy conducted in two elementary schools in Kern County, California. (CB)

This study attempted to determine whether the administrative location of school psychology programs shaped the curriculum patterns in practicum and internship experience. No significant difference in programs in the surveyed institutions could be ascertained. (Author)

It was concluded that trainee counselors in this study perceived a great deal of value in the use of videotape as a feedback technique for integrating counseling theory with practice. (Author)