Educational and practical experience are both essential to teacher education, and prospective teachers require a carefully planned curriculum integrating realistic practice in all the activities of teaching with theory and research in pedagogy. (Author/MSE)

Describes the Alternative to Impaired Driving (AID) program, a cooperative effort among a community agency, the court system, and a counselor education program. The AID program provides trainees with real-life experience as well as helps arrested clients identify and deal with alcohol problems in a three-day residential program. (JAC)

The overall system of cooperative education and teacher practicum programs at the University of Bath is described, advantages and disadvantages are discussed, and the responses of former program participants to a mail survey are presented. Several major advantages to the program type that emerged from the survey are noted. (MSE)

Illustrates the potential of a single-case research design as a method for demonstrating supervisor accountability. Utilizing a multiple baseline design the effectiveness of a brief supervisory intervention was evaluated. The process and decisions involved in using a single-case design to evaluate supervisor effectiveness are discussed. (Author/BL)

A field work, internship, or practicum course, by virtue of its emphasis on practical decisions and interventions, is perhaps more directly concerned with values and ethical issues than any other course in the undergraduate psychology curriculum. Methods and resources for facilitating discussion of ethical issues are discussed. (RM)

French university faculty experiences in supervising foreign students' doctoral thesis writing are transformed into suggestions for assisting students in foreign language technical writing tasks. These include: noting special needs in the course of the research; drawing on linguistic, rhetorical, and communication theory for help with composition;…

The author lists ten qualities that she feels characterize an outstanding student teacher supervisor. (HD)

To ascertain effects of supervised counselor experience on measures of dominance, graduate students (N=32) were given the dominance and self-acceptance scales of the California Psychological Inventory and the California Fascism Scale. Results implied a supervised counseling practicum effected more of an increase in participants' feelings of…

Graduate students enrolled in a counseling practicum were divided into two groups. Group 1 experienced the experiential-introspective approach (emphasizing self analysis) and Group 2 experienced the didactic-behavioristic approach (focusing on demonstrations of communication in counseling by others). Analyses of questionnaire responses from both…

A practical approach to the improvement of medical information systems in small hospitals is described. This plan combines the training of library managers through a preceptorship experience with the loan of a demonstration collection of basic books and indexes to the journal literature and a vigorous on-site consultation program. (5 references)…

Paper presented at the ADE/ADFL Joint Summer Seminar, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, June 26, 1973. (DD)

Describes tutoring experiences provided for senior methods students with college freshmen in composition and short story courses at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. (RD)