The purpose of this practicum was to develop and implement a pilot project combining school and public transit services in Marin County, California. To accomplish this aim, it was necessary to gain approval from several public agencies, obtain funds to finance part of the study, gather and analyze data on school transportation and public transit…

This project surveyed evening students enrolled in the Office of Occupations Division of the Houston Community College as to their opinions concerning the effectiveness of their instructor. Of the approximately 870 students enrolled, 236 students of "professional educators" responded, and 119 students of teachers who "worked…

The report discusses the use of systems techniques to answer the question of what should be taught in a prepracticum course, Techniques of Counseling. The approach required: (1) definition of counselor problem-solving functions, and (2) construction of a system model of effective counseling in order to identify the skills and information needed to…

A follow-up study was made of a 1966 summer retraining program designed to increase the range of teacher competencies in dealing with disadvantaged youth within the classroom and teacher understanding of the concerns of parents of disadvantaged youth as a major means of effecting educational change. The 4-week program involved about 150 teachers…

The report is concerned with the orientation and training provided during a 3-day preservice workshop for 12 selected staff members (teachers and paraprofessionals) of a field unit and an adult basic education demonstration center. General and specific objectives of the workshop are presented, as well as evaluations, summary, and conclusions. The…

In the fall semester of 1972-73, two general biology classes were offered and taught by the same teacher. One class received lecture material in the traditional manner, attending three one-hour lectures each week. The 82 students in this class were designated the control group. The 52 students in the other class, known as the experimental group,…

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…

The field experience component of the competency-based elementary teacher preparation sequence that was developed at the University of Toledo as part of the Ohio Model consists of two learning modules: a) planning, implementation, and evaluation; and b) gaining acceptance and respect as a member of the multiunit school. The first module is…

The undergraduate Prescriptive Teaching and graduate Diagnostic-Prescriptive Teaching training programs are designed to prepare generalist, multidiscipline teachers and school consultants to systematically and successfully intervene with problems of learning and behavior. The programs are competency based, by means of course and program…

As a community service, Jackson State Community College has developed programs for training paraprofessionals in the field of reading and communication skills to become proficient enough in the instruction of reading skills to assist disabled readers. The suggested sources of paraprofessional trainees are college students, mothers, company wives,…

Twenty-four practicum trainees experienced either monitor-modeling or immediate feedback supervision during their training. Ten minute counseling sessions with coached clients were taped before and after the practicum. Three independent judges rated the tapes, using Carkhuff's scales for "gross ratings of facilitative interpersonal functioning" to…

A two-phase attendance alert intervention system was field tested within the fifth grades of two elementary schools, the tenth grades of two high schools, and within grades nine through twelve in a continuation high school. The schools, in four different Los Angeles County unified school districts, vary by socioeconomic patterns and school system…

A preliminary study that seeks to determine, quantitatively and qualitatively, the effectiveness of externship preceptors in training Purdue University students to practice pharmacy in community and hospital environments is described. Variables that can effect externships are appended. (JMD)

An elective clinical practicum in sex education is reported. Staff from the D.C. Department of Human Resources and Planned Parenthood train third- and fourth-year medical students in sex education techniques and supervise their work with public school children, mostly fifth- and sixth-grade pupils. (Author/LBH)

For eight years, the Department of Early Childhood Education at Northeastern Illinois University has worked cooperatively with Robert Morris Elementary School in Chicago in developing and implementing a laboratory experience for student teachers in the area of play and rhythmic expression. Describes the program and evaluates its benefit for…