This study determined if the effects of specific training in teaching strategies conducted as a part of the preservice program persisted through the first year of teaching. The subjects were first-year home economics teachers who had been a part of a previous study involving the training. They tape-recorded ten lessons. The variety of teaching…

In 1969 Eastern New Mexico University's College of Education developed a program of one-semester internships at a variety of state facilities including mental institutions, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals. Coupled with the internships, one-week institutes were designed for students wanting some exposure to the facility but not wanting to…

A sample of 30 male and 124 female prospective teachers were given a battery of inventories prior to teacher training. Included in this battery was a 300-item Educational Opinion Inventory (EOI). On the day immediately following the administration of each inventory, each subject taught a 40-minute lesson to 20 to 30 secondary school students.…

The job satisfaction of 110 teachers of the educable mentally retarded was significantly and usually substantially correlated with the Social, Artistic, and Realistic scales of the Vocational Preference Inventory. The implications of the results for the selection and placement of teachers and for Holland's theory are discussed. (Author)

The author, a headmaster of Colorado Academy, Englewood, Colorado, considered the reasons that inspired him to teach and affirmed the solidarity and shared beliefs in what teaching means to teachers. (RK)

The author, an experienced substitute teacher, described her exciting encounters in the classroom. The ideas have implications for all of us. (Editor/RK)

Princeton University's Community College Internship Program trains graduate students for community college teaching positions through a combination of 12 introductory seminars and a semester of practical classroom experience. Seminar themes include: behaviorism as an educational issue, the use of audiovisual materials, and the variety within…

Explains how mini-courses, chosen, developed and taught by graduate teaching assistants have helped in providing practical teaching experience to the graduate students involved. (GA)

An understanding of the social realities of teaching combines a social systems understanding of teaching as a profession with a description of the dailiness of teaching as an activity based on experience. A framework for utilizing these understandings in staff-development/school-improvement programs is presented. (JMF)

Four teachers involved in forthcoming conferences on the subject offer their personal view of what mixed ability teaching means to them in their schools. (Editor)

The study examined the status of teacher knowledge of reading at the secondary level and investigated the factors which may have contributed to that knowledge--inservice, amount of experience, level of teaching, coursework in reading, field of specialization, and sex. (NQ)

The background of the teaching experience requirement for counselors is examined and a survey of research studies reported. The evidence suggests that teaching experience is not related to success as a counselor and, perhaps, may be detrimental. (Author)

This AAUP-approved statement proposes that an individual's previous service as a full-time faculty member at an institution of higher education that was either accredited or an official candidate for accreditation be considered in determining his probationary period. (LBH)

Reports on a new approach to primary-secondary liaison. (Editor)

Outlines the problems of beginning teachers and the reasons many of the better qualified ones leave teaching. Provides six guidelines for developing effective teacher induction programs for new teachers. (MD)