A report based upon data collected through the administration of the Intern Program at Fort Schuyler describes a pilot project in intern instructorships established in 1960 at Maritime College, Fort Schuyler. The program provides one year and an optional second year of practical teacher training for graduate students working toward the Ph.D. in a…

Cooperative educational arrangements are utilized extensively by vocational educators as a practical approach to learning. Some of these arrangements are work-study, extended campus, clinical experience, internship, Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE), and entrepreneurship. The work-study arrangement provides economically needy students with…

This study was designed to assess the current state of the art in master's level counseling practica, and to compare this with ACES Standards (1973) for recommended improvements in counselor training. A checklist instrument was used to secure information on theoretical approaches, practica models and focus, pre-practicum preparation, types of…

Seven graduate students were awarded Office of Education Professional Development Act (EPDA) fellowships to participate in the occupational education leadership program developed by Southern Illinois University during the 1974-75 academic year. All were enrolled as full-time students, three at the master's degree level and four at the doctoral…

Of 391 living participants in the 10-year-old Academic Administration Internship Program (AAIP), 320 or 82 percent completed the questionnaire, which became the basis of this evaluation study. Survey data were used to determine the current status of the AAIP alumni and fellows, the usefulness of the AAIP experience in their careers, the national…

As a participant in a national program established under the Education Professions Development Act, Oregon State University established a program to prepare selected doctoral candidates with broad professional knowledge and specific competencies as vocational education leaders. An advisory committee was established and a system model for…

The model for internships in school administration came from other professional fields, particularly medicine. Internship programs for master's degree candidates have generally focused on middle-management positions, such as school principal. Often such programs have been offered by local and county school districts, independently of…

This survey, developed with the underlying philosophy of uncovering basic attitudes of students, reached approximately 11,000 students representing diverse interests, ages, programs, geographic locales, and socioeconomic backgrounds from 188 institutions. Of these 11,000 students, approximately 25 percent responded to the survey instrument and…

Second in a series, this survey was designed to provide information about some aspects of graduate study in adult education in the United States and Canada. It differs from the first, dated July, 1968, in that only data likely to change appreciably in one year were included. Some of the major changes between the last and present reports are:…

This chapter is designed to aid in the understanding of trends toward developing more effective programs of selecting and preparing educational supervisors. A survey of present policies and procedures in the selection of personnel for supervisory positions shows that the selection process could be significantly improved simply by setting up and…

Approximately 1,100 students from about 50 colleges and universities worked in more than 50 New York City agencies for the summer of 1966 in a million dollar program funded by the College Work-Study Program of the Office of Education and by the City, and administered largely by students. The Urban Corps had 3 purposes: to get needed work done; to…

To use the world to study reality, the alternative is offered of working in a developing country in place of some of the usual formal classroom course credits. A few universities have tried intern training programs to train Peace Corps (PC) volunteers in special fields; an aim of the program is to determine what part of the PC program can be…

This report summarizes a cooperative program in which senior student teachers from Newark State College serve as staff members in the South Brunswick, New Jersey, schools for a 6-week summer training program followed by a full semester of internship in the schools. Among the essential elements of the internship program are: (1) its role as a part…

Described is development of the Hunter College dance therapy 18-month 30-credit masters program involving 33 adult students, (in two classes beginning in 1971 and 1972), an educational model, internship in psychiatric institutions, and preparation of instructional materials. The dance therapist is said to incorporate the psychiatric patient's…

A need exists for consideration of the variety of regional problems and characteristics in training junior college English teachers. A region's needs can be surveyed and met best by junior and four-year schools that are close enough together so that the two-year colleges can specify their needs and the four-year colleges can meet them. Before the…