The National Service Scheme in India provides work experience based on social services as an integral part of education. The author presents ideas for national service based on agricultural improvement. (Author/PG)

A description of the functioning, problems, and coordinator roles for Washington State's Community Involvement Program--a systematic effort to place students off-campus in practical learning situations that will augment their formal classroom training--now operating in Washington's 27 community colleges. (DC)

A Saturday morning youth program was developed by Gustavus Adolphus College (Minnesota) for the purpose of providing field expereinces for pre-student teaching elementary education majors. Children from the community attend enrichment classes in social studies and science, taught by teams of students from the college of education. One objective of…

This document is a manual for a social work field placement program. The social work field placement is described as a learning experience designed to translate the students' interests, interpersonal abilities, and academic knowledge and theory into the capability of enabling others to solve problems. Expectations of skills to be learned in the…

The literature on undergraduate field placement programs reveals differences in approaches to program evaluation. Included in research literature are descriptive accounts, as well as those focusing on characteristics of the program, student evaluation of field programs, or those assessing the program's influence on students. This study pre- and…

In response to ongoing needs for improved preservice field experiences for prospective administrators, more stringent state certification standards, and technical support for practitioners, mutually beneficial alliances are being formed between universities and local schools. This paper describes part of a continuing University Council for…

Guidelines, as developed by the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), for professional experiences in education are presented. Revisions of these guidelines were conducted by the National Field Directors Forum, a special interest group of the ATE. The major purposes of professional experiences are to: (1) provide opportunities to relate…

A 23-item questionnaire was mailed to teacher education institutions in the United States that offer programs to prepare early childhood teachers. The questionnaire surveyed the institutions' early childhood teacher education programs, their relationship to state teacher certification requirements, and the nature of the programs' field…

To acquaint counselors with business and industry, the University of Delaware and the industrial community have developed a program which could readily be extablished elsewhere. (Author)

The North Carolina Internship Office has an operational objective to establish a network of programs which extend opportunities for service-learning to students enrolled in the 45 senior public and private colleges in the state. (Editor)

Vigorously supports the use of field experiences as learning devices and as an alternative method of teaching and looks at the various actors in the process, focusing on the uses and misuses of the faculty supervisor. (Author/PG)

This paper examines the characteristics of student workers, the types of structures for supervising student field experience are noted, supervisory functions are suggested, and the potentials of good supervision are summarized. (Author)

How to gain approval for the establishment of a field experience program, organize it, and establish supporting relationships for it. (Editor/PG)

Described here is the implementation of a field experience sequence into a course entitled "Preschool and Primary School Physical Education." (Author/JA)