Proposed for prospective teachers of the mentally retarded is intensive involvement with mentally retarded children at the freshman or sophomore level. (DB)

Described UCLA's University Elementary School and its unique plan for a training component of a credential program. (Author/RK)

Author suggested a modification in teacher education that might help to improve efforts at nurturing the individual potentials of students. (Author/RK)

The Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District/North Texas State University professional semester for preservice teachers is described as an effective, organized, cooperative action program at the local level. Organization, objectives, and procedures are described, and examples of forms used in the student teacher center program are presented.…

AN ATTEMPT TO REDUCE THE PERIOD OF STUDENT TEACHING BY A SUPERVISED WORK-STUDY PLAN WAS PRESENTED. THE PURPOSES WERE TO EXERIMENT WITH A PLAN WHICH INVOLVED INSERVICE SUPERVISION FOR BEGINNING TEACHERS WITH A RELATIVE REDUCTION OF PRESERVICE TRAINING, TO EVALUATE THE RESULTS, AND TO GRADUALLY INTRODUCE CHANGES INTO THE TOTAL PROGRAM. AT THE END OF…

EPISODE TEACHING IS THE PRACTICE OF INITIATING STUDENT TEACHERS INTO TEACHING THROUGH THEIR OWN PERFORMANCE OF THE TEACHING ACT AS COPROFESSIONALS RATHER THAN AS DEPENDENTS. AN EPISODE IS DEFINED AS A SELF-CONTAINED EVENT, NOT PART OF AN ONGOING PROGRAM, BUT APPROPRIATE TO THE AGE LEVEL AND GENERAL INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN IN QUESTION. THE STUDENT…

If the needs of the student teacher are to be met, he must be regarded as "a thinking, reacting, growing, and changing near-professional person." This, however, can not occur if his teacher supervisor has unwillingly accepted his own supervisory position, having been pushed into it by administrative pressure. The teacher supervisor who accepts…

Increasingly, those individuals and institutions working with teachers-to-be are assuming responsibility for the performance of their graduates. One measure of an undergraduate teacher education program is the perceptions of its graduates. In studies using G. Thomas Baer's questionnaire for program evaluation, several recurring themes or common…

In an effort to measure the impact of Outward Bound (OB) education on teacher candidates, an 18-day stress experience was arranged for 12 Appalachian State University students and then compared with the effects of the normal 11-week student teacher experiences of two other groups. The OB group underwent a series of individual and group wilderness…

Previous research on the use of interaction process analysis and microteaching in teacher education indicates that these two methods of achieving specified behavioral changes in the teaching behavior of student teachers are at least as effective, if not more so, than traditional methods. Attention now turns to the different ways that interaction…

The Teacher Personal Growth Materials, of which this manual is a part, were prepared in the belief that the teacher's feelings are an important component of her teaching and are therefore a legitimate concern of teacher education. Prospective teachers have many questions, usually unasked and unanswered, about their relationship with their…