Beginning counselors are rarely able to avoid anxiety during early counseling sessions. The fears involved in demonstrating counseling arise from: (1) irrational beliefs concerning "the perfect response;" (2) academic coursework which seems to equate psychological illness with poor counseling skills; (3) uncertainty about necessary skills; and (4)…

The first year of operation of the Alma (Michigan) College Career Preparation Program is described and analyzed. The program sought to strengthen traditional career planning services, add new efforts that support and augment strengths of the liberal arts program, and more effectively integrate students' educational progress with plans to enter the…

A team teaching model for teacher interns is described. The teaching team is comprised of education professors and graduate student assistants who work closely with individual interns. Three components undergird the model: 1) the teaching team's acceptance of goals expressed by the interns; 2) the team's agreement with the plans and approaches…

In 1976, with a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Sex and Disability Unit began training disabled and nondisabled professionals and paraprofessionals to serve as sociosexual educator-counselors for physically disabled persons; this is the final report of that project. Training included lectures on the sexual aspects of…

This two-part manual for college teachers of education is designed to provide information about individualized instruction along with resources for teaching a unit on it. Part 1, a general introduction to individualized instruction in teacher education, contains discussion of background historical development in the area of independent study;…

This book describes a practicum project that analyzed the organizational structure of the regional service teams at the California State Department of Education and designed a strategy to reduce the organizational problems caused by consolidating application procedures for seven state and federal categorical aid programs. The practicum design…

This study is part of a program initiated by the Business Administration Division of El Paso Community College (Texas), in 1973 to evolve a curriculum with supporting instructional techniques which will meet the special needs of evening and part-time students in a student body which is nearly 60 percent Mexican-American. Evening students from this…

This practicum describes the methods used by the principal of a Middle School in Norwalk, Connecticut, to improve and increase the participation of parents of foreign born students in school affairs. Emphasis was placed on the personal involvement by the staff of each school to encourage parents to attend school meetings and functions. The…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the class scheduling of a pharmacology course for L.P.N. students at the College of Lake County, in Grayslake, Illinois, and the final course grade. It was hypothesized that subjects will learn pharmacology concepts more effectively when the course content is concentrated within a…

The author designed an instructional package including slides and tape cassettes for individual use by students learning to use a hand calculator to perform computations. Students (n=17) using the package were given pretests and posttests of ability and attitude. On the three sets of cognitive objectives, mastery was achieved by 96 percent, 76…

It was hypothesized that there is a significant difference in attitudes toward theories of learning between faculty members who assess experiential learning (EL) for award of college credit and those who do not. A questionnaire eliciting opinion on EL assessment methods and philosophy was distributed to 595 faculty members at 54 two- and four-year…

The purpose of this study was to compare current student teacher preparation programs and practices with demands made of beginning speech teachers in Illinois. A questionnaire designed to gather recommendations on ways to prepare speech teachers for the actual teaching situation was sent to 159 student teachers from 20 Illinois colleges and 183…

In the last 2 years, the Education Department at Western has developed an alternative to the standard program leading to initial teaching certification. The alternative is a Clinical Program based on the ComField Elementary Teacher Education Model. The new program is operational at the six Southeast Center Schools of Seattle. Instructional…

An innovative political science program in Fairfax County, Virginia, involves a semester's study of political theory and processes, followed by an optional semester-long internship in which each student works 8 to 10 hours per week with a county, state, or federal government agency and then prepares a report on a contemporary issue related to the…

This study explored how six preservice teachers who participated as interns in a Professional Development School (PDS) program experienced learning to teach in the PDS context. The paper explores the scholarship of learning to teaching, highlighting the disjuncture between the complexity and contexts of school-based practicums, restructuring of…