A competency-based introductory counseling course, including demonstrations of model counseling, student role-play counseling, information about prisoners, and a counseling practicum using prisoners as a client population, was developed for Roanoke Bible College. Research was then conducted to evaluate the course materials. Findings led to the…

TEACHER EDUCATION THROUGH APPLIED METHODS (TEAM), AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM FOR THE INTEGRATION OF ELEMENTARY METHODS COURSES, IS DISCUSSED. SPECIALISTS WHO MAY FORM A TEACHING TEAM ARE OFTEN FROM THE AREAS OF LANGUAGE ARTS, MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA. THE PURPOSES FOR DEVELOPING A TEAM APPROACH ARE TO REDUCE THE…

This course is a team taught, 12 quarter-hour block course, which combines a general teaching, competency segment and a specialized subject area methods segment. It is required of all students seeking secondary certification and is supported out of the regular secondary department budget. The teaching competency segment has the following three…

The purpose of this study was to determine what is being offered by colleges and universities to prospective teachers in methods of teaching secondary school journalism. A review of the literature was made, and a questionnaire was sent to 138 colleges and universities, asking whether the institution offered a publications course, a methods course…

Presented is a description of a study done to assess an undergraduate science methods course. The subjects involved in the study were 82 elementary education majors at Louisiana State University. Students not in the course served as a comparison group. The treatment group participated in science activities selected from ESS, SCIS, and SAPA…

A part of a methods program consisting of lectures, demonstrations, laboratories, and practical applications, preservice mathematics teachers examined the role of activity methods, including use of computers, in secondary-school mathematics instruction. They were then expected to apply this knowledge as student teachers. Data collected to evaluate…

Students in English methods courses must be encouraged to develop a multicultural awareness and to become concerned with "language arts" as opposed to "English arts." In order to be prepared to enter into and function as teachers in a pluralistic world, English teaching majors need to study and practice multicultural teaching strategies and to…

Minicourse 2, "Thought and Language: Skills for Teaching Kindergarten Children With Minimal Language Experience," was designed to help teachers to meet the needs of such pupils. The course is organized into five sequences in which a set of 14 teaching behaviors are described and demonstrated; specific skills pertain to five areas of language…

Examined are two controversial areas in science education related to elementary education majors: (1) use of science content courses, and (2) use of science methods courses. The author attempts to determine whether education majors who were taking a professional course in the teaching of science differ from non-education majors taking a comparable…

This paper contains a report on two science education methods courses for the teaching of biology developed at Arizona State University at Tempa. One course is for preservice teachers only and is taught each fall semester, as it has been since 1964, by a team consisting of a high school biology teacher, a science consultant for the Phoenix school…

The first part of this document contains reports of committee activities and discussions in the areas of higher education and research, general and technical education, out-of-school education and cultural development, and educational documentation and research. The second part, which is the major section, is devoted to papers presented at a…

One hundred colleges and universities, located primarily in the Southwest, were surveyed regarding their beginning speech communication courses. The responses, 30 department syllabi and 72 completed questionnaires, tended to confirm the common speculation that both departmental titles and beginning course content are shifting toward a…

This document on the value of field experience for preservice teachers is based on a course and an experiment conducted at the University of Maryland in which blocks of a methods course were devoted to elementary school classroom experience. It is reported that school visits progressively involved observation lesson presentation, and general…

Thirty-one student teachers participated in a study of the language arts and reading module of a competency-based program at the University of Toledo, to determine the extent to which objectives were implemented during the student teaching experience. Results from an observation schedule and questionnaires completed by student teachers and…

A stratified random sample was taken of older American colleges and universities currently offering art degrees. Their college catalogs were analyzed to determine the semester hours of coursework offered in 1914, 1934, 1954, and 1974, in major and minor studio art, art history, and art teaching methods. (SJL)