During the coming years the need for professionals to work with the nation's elders will increase several fold. This will place a great responsibility on university educational programs to prepare enough qualified future professionals to work in the greatly expanding field of gerontology. Prior research has identified several nonacademic and…

This study investigates how four prospective teachers interpret and use textbooks while learning to teach mathematics during university coursework and practicum teaching. Results indicate that prospective teachers had varied approaches to using textbooks ranging from adherence, elaboration, and creation. Factors influencing how they engaged with…

Traditionally, college English departments have resisted granting undergraduate internships a central place in their curricula. Many of these departments do little more than allow students to pursue internships as loosely supervised independent studies. An internship practicum course such as Purdue University's, however, enables students to…

Performance-based assessments require teacher candidates to demonstrate proficiency on specific teaching tasks and apply knowledge in authentic settings. This article describes the development and use of performance-based assessments (PBAs) for advancing the learning and evaluation of teacher candidates in an early childhood special education…

A survey consisting of 8 items was sent to alumni of graduate level programs in reading education at 3 universities to obtain an overall picture of the remedial reading practicum experience and to elicit information about the degree to which former students find their experiences in remedial reading education programs relevant to their current…

Over the years, Neumann College (Pennsylvania) and surrounding school districts have cooperated informally in providing clinical sites for student teaching experiences. The growth of education programs at Neumann prompted a formalization of the clinical experience process in order to maintain the quality of its teacher preparation programs. The…

This paper describes a 2-year practicum in pediatric psychology at the Bay State Medical Center, as administered by the Psychology Department of the University of Massachusetts. An overview of the pediatric psychology program and its collaborative design between clinical and developmental psychology is given. The learning objectives, and the…

Presents a goal-directed paradigm for supervision of social work students in a field placement within a Veterans Administration Drug Abuse Program. Included is a rational breakdown of five phases in placement: screening, minimum orientation, Goal Work Sheet, body of placement, and evaluation and closure. (Editor/JT)

The Queensland Board of Teacher Education instituted a small grants scheme to encourage research into teacher education. This document contains summaries of four projects. The first, "Admission of Student Teachers Using Both Academic and Non-Academic Criteria" (Phil Meade and David Smith), investigated the performance of teacher…

The Training and Learning Center (TLC), located on the campus of Southwestern Oklahoma State University provides an opportunity for special education majors to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The TLC program incorporates a transdisciplinary approach, using the services of specialists in speech and language therapy, audiology, physical…

Since Kagan (1963) developed interpersonal process recall more than 20 years ago, there has been continuing interest in the thought processes of practitioners. A case study approach was used to analyze the retrospections of a graduate student counselor and the cognitions of an experienced supervising psychologist about a counseling session with a…

This study reviews the literature on the supervisory conference over the past 30 years in order to examine the underlying assumptions about conferences and how they have been incorporated and interpreted by those who have written about supervisory conferences. The review is organized according to the three major components of the conference: the…

A set of matrices are described that were created to be used in selecting appropriate practica experiences for students in graduate level special education teacher training programs. Two practicum matrices were designed to take into consideration the following factors in deciding on acceptable practicum experience for each student: (1) educational…

This paper recounts the development of a cooperative teacher evaluation system by the Anchorage (Alaska) School District and presents the data that led Anchorage educators to conclude that cooperative evaluation is superior to either traditional supervisor-directed evaluation or minimal unstructured evaluation. In 1984, the district formed a task…

Newington (Connecticut) High School developed a gifted/talented program based on independent research, seminar sessions, course offerings in the collegiate setting, internships, and college credit programs at the school. An evening seminar series addresses topics chosen as a result of student needs assessment. The Collegiate Challenge Series…