The present and future conditions of elementary teacher internship programs were considered in this study. A questionnaire was mailed to 67 California teacher preparation institutions and 43 institutions selected from other states. A follow-up study was conducted one year later to determine any program revisions that were occurring in the…

This study concerning student teachers' evaluation of their preparation for student teaching follows research on student teachers' perceptions of the most pressing problems encountered during student teaching. The first study identified a list of commonly encountered problems for a variety of teaching situations. In the second study, each of 113…

Interviews with beginning teachers reveal that they agree that education students should take methods courses and apply them in a local school setting simultaneously. (JD)

A master's degree program in geography and geology at Eastern Michigan University merges academic training with career experience. Students with relevant work experience in industry or government may fulfill their thesis requirement by teaching an undergraduate course in the department and preparing a publishable paper. (Author/AV)

States that the inescapable fact in the issue of mixed ability teaching is that even in a school where children are streamed (homogeneous grouping) every teacher who works there will still be teaching mixed ability forms. (Author/RK)

The author records her impressions of Egypt's gradual move towards compulsory schooling. (Editor)

The author taught in an open-space classroom at Argyle Junior High in Montgomery County, Maryland. Here is a candid look at the inner workings of a room without walls. (Editor/RK)

Presents recent research data which strongly support the widely held intuitive feeling that beginning teachers find the first year of teaching to be one of severe disillusionment. (Author)

Retrenchment in the schools means that faculties will increasingly comprise older teachers--primarily women. Administrators must guard against adopting social attitudes that devalue both older women and the teaching profession. The teaching experience of the older teacher should be fully utilized. (Author/DS)

Describes a comprehensive instrument used in the student teaching program at Florida State University to provide student teachers with the opportunity to evaluate all areas of their student teaching experience. (Author/RK)

Describes research undertaken to assess the validity of the Views of Science (VOS) questionnaire. The instrument purports to measure a subject's view of the tentativeness of science. Findings indicated that although the instrument appeared to have construct validity, the physical science backgrounds of subjects taking the test appeared to affect…

Preservice field experience and campus activities are integrated to combine theory and practice in human interaction, informal classrooms, teaching-learning skills, the integrated day, and subject matter development. The student co-author describes the way that she experienced each component. (Author)

Few teachers have the time or energy to step back and consider their own practice. Last term, eleven members of a department in a large urban comprehensive kept a detailed diary of one week's experience. Their collective account provides a vivid snapshot of the everyday life of a teacher. (Editor)

Describes results of a survey in which postsecondary word processing instructors responded to questions about their qualifications to teach word processing, their knowledge of word processing hiring standards, and their perceptions about word processing competencies. (CT)