The author discusses 18 good ideas for sociology graduate students to keep in mind as they prepare to become professional teachers in the field. The first six suggestions deal with documenting teaching experience. Graduate teaching assistants should keep a file containing descriptions of specific teaching methods, grading techniques, outlines of…

A study was conducted to assess Missouri vocational home economics teachers' perceived use of instructional materials. A survey form, consisting of three sections (personal data, curriculum experience, and curriculum competencies), was sent to the total population of consumer homemaking and occupational home economics teachers in secondary schools…

This interim report (written four weeks after the program had begun operation) of the University of Connecticut's Model Program for Improving the Education of Preservice and Inservice Teachers of Elementary, Secondary, and Exceptional Children in Metropolitan Areas (Groton and New London, Connecticut) describes the procedures to date (staffing,…

The Help-a-Child Tutoring Project was designed to provide college students with practical tutor/teaching experience while also providing local school children with academic tutors. This project description has six subdivisions, which present brief descriptions of: (1) the project's recent history; (2) the organization and sequence of the program;…

Most students majoring in elementary education at Illinois State University are enrolled in the CORE Program. These prospective teachers are required to complete three on-campus unified "cores" or semesters of work which focus upon the arts, communication skills, and natural and social sciences. The fourth core or semester is devoted to clinical…

This study reports the results of a national survey concerning the current (1974) status of the certification of preschool teachers by each of the United States. Information was obtained from the certification officers of 47 states and the District of Columbia, each of whom answered a one-page questionnaire designed to ascertain: (1) how many…

This monograph consists of five papers originating from a 1974 conference entitled, "Field-Based Teacher Education for the '80's." The first paper, "Public School-College Cooperation in the Field-Based Education of Teachers (FBTE)--A Historical Perspective," by James L. Slay, focuses on how the historical development of public school cooperation…

This study attempted to construct an instrument--the Poetry Methods Rating Scale (PMRS)--for assessing 10th-grade teachers' opinions of poetry teaching methods and to validate it by comparing the scores on the PMRS to the teachers' attitudes, personality, performance, and success in the classroom. The PMRS (a 38-item, seven category…

In order that theatre education may contribute significantly to theatre art and to society, five problems must be examined: (1) the qualifications of individual instructors and the quality of theatre programs; (2) the need for a good laboratory program "to teach theatre and let theatre teach," with play production serving only as an extension of…

During 1968, Michigan State University developed a basic model and initial curriculum for the Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program (ED 027 285-ED 027 287), emphasizing the developmental experiences through the first years of teaching. This feasibility study was designed to analyze the human, material, and fiscal resources required to…

The variation in the interaction patterns of group members was investigated in this study. Data on the three major variables -- Sociability, Interaction, and Demographic factors were collected by means of the Social-introversion-extraversion scale in Guilford's "An Inventory of Factors STDCR," the Reciprocal Category System, and a brief…

This report is one in a series of needs assessment publications that comprise the initial phase for PROJECT DESIGN, an ESEA Title III project administered by the Fresno City Unified School District. The purpose of this study was to determine whether significant teacher staffing differences exist among schools of the district. The data used in this…

This 414-item bibliography contains citations of published and unpublished documents and journal articles processed by the Clearinghouse between July 1968 and June 1970 related to the "means and methods by which pre- and in-service school personnel can secure structured practice in developing skills and insights." Publication dates of the…

This report evaluates Project Mission which offered graduate and undergraduate students from three of Maryland's State Colleges special training for teaching in Baltimore's inner-city schools. Partially supported by Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I money, the program provided each student with a year's supervised experience teaching…

This report, the second in a series of eight which analyzes the educational personnel system, applies three theories of labor mobility to primary and secondary school teachers. These theories are the economic theory of the human capital model, the institutional theory of internal labor markets, and a probabilistic Markov model. The literature on…