The introductory portion of this report defines teacher education centers and briefly describes their developmental continuum. A synthesis of documents concerning student teaching and teacher education centers is followed by a list of features differentiating conventional programs, student teaching centers, and teacher education centers.…

This paper presents a guide for the planning and evaluation of student teachers' performance based on performance objectives. According to the author performance objectives are written sets of behaviors that the student may perform in order to demonstrate achievement. A minimal pattern of performance objectives should be mandated for all student…

This paper assesses the state of current practicum arrangements in five suburban school systems in Massachusetts and presents recommendations regarding the practicum from persons concerned with the preparation of teachers. Three different but parallel questionnaires were devised for cooperating teachers, student teachers, and college supervisors.…

The Chandler Outreach Project, developed by Arizona State University, represents a clinical teaching center concept where efforts are being made to combine curriculum development, operational research on instruction, and teacher preparation in a center setting for students in teaching. Thirty-six junior year elementary education students use four…

This study examined the effect of the student teacher's perception of and preference for the role of the cooperating teacher and the cooperating teacher's perception of his role on the student teacher's effectiveness and satisfaction with the student teaching experience. Subjects were 98 student teachers and 98 cooperating teachers. Responses were…

An experiment was conducted to test the feasibility of offering education courses concomitantly with directed observations and student teaching experiences in a public school setting. The conclusion is that this course of action is likely to result in a more relevant and productive teacher education program. (Author/KC)

A teacher training program involving student teachers, cooperating classroom teachers, and university-employed supervisors, is described; its problems are outlined, and alternatives are suggested. (DS)

In order to teach well, student teachers must learn to put theories and philosophies of education into practice, rather than learning to "go through the motions" of teaching. This is especially true in the Caribbean, where few student teachers understand the dynamics of learning or their own role in the learning process. (WI)

The educational system, from kindergarten to graduate school, has socialized women to see that teaching is a desirable occupation for them. Those same features that make teaching seem desirable to women, however, also serve to help keep teaching from becoming a true profession and to perpetuate sexism. (Author/GC)

Views are presented on education and health education that a student teacher should consider in a search for excellence in teaching, including the interest of health education to the student, nature of the learning process, development of a learning climate, and others. (MJB)

The article re-examines the student teaching experience as it affects the prospective physical educator through review of: the meaning of student teaching as presently interpreted and applied in physical education; objectives of student teaching as analyzed by physical educators; and reports on perceived objectives achieved by student teaching in…

This article discusses difficulties faced in field experience programs and describes a process for instructing cooperating teachers in strategies to work better with university students. Cooperating teacher seminars discuss such issues as cooperating teachers' concerns, field experiences, student teaching, coaching, feedback strategies, and…

Nostalgically reviews a student teacher's experience with a class of ninth grade nonreaders. (JK)

Reports on research done in an ethnographic fieldwork style conducted on teacher preparation programs and discusses the contradictions that preservice teachers encounter in conceptions of curriculum. Includes extensive references. (MD)

Cooperating teachers were observed to find out what motivated them to serve as essentially uncompensated volunteers. This study found that, aside from financial rewards, incentives included status recognition and input and control in the teacher education process. Results are presented. (DF)