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)

Schools of education, whose responsibility is to add skills in teaching to a student's repertoire, cannot remedy inadequacies in basic academic training. The California State University system is developing initiatives regarding student selection and knowledge and practice of teaching in order to improve its teacher education programs. (MT)

Discusses the use of a supervision model in which a contract is made between the student teacher and the supervisor and a prearranged format is used to analyze the student's performance. Lists the teaching skills to be considered in constructing a contract and presents a sample contract. (SED)

The attitudes of preservice teachers toward mainstreaming disabled students were investigated before and after special education classroom experience. Results are discussed. (DF)

The challenge of preparing a preservice teacher who is to work with nonhandicapped children is considerable. Special adaptations made in training hearing-impaired persons to teach social studies is discussed, and the successes and problems of these students when they begin to teach social studies in the practicum setting are examined. (RM)

The educational and ideological parameters of field experience programs for perspective teachers and programs that encourage students to examine educational issues from a critical perspective are explored in this article. A Knox College elementary education program is an example of how these issues can be realigned into a critically oriented,…

A new type of student-teacher supervision, the tutor-supervisor concept, has been initiated at Murdoch University in Australia. (SK)

Ways in which student teaching and inservice and preservice teacher education can be made into a continuum of teacher education services, especially for vocational education teachers, are explained. (GW)

An experiment conducted with student teachers to see if instruction in Vimcet materials and actual classroom experience would significantly change their preferences for learning objectives produced no statistically significant change but did show a gain in mean "Instructional Objectives Preference List" (IPOL) scores. (MB)

The primary aim of the program is to develop contexts in which prospective teachers can observe teaching-learning in action and can try innovative ideas under the guidance of a professional. (JH)

This study used collaborative interactive group action research (CIGAR) to answer research questions about the use of video teleconferencing (VTEL) as a distance learning tool to enrich the preparation of preservice teachers. CIGAR, for the purposes of this study, is defined as a group of preservice teachers and university researchers actively…

This qualitative study, grounded in Dewey's theory of experience, explores what six recent graduates claimed to learn from a university music teacher education program's methods course, early field experiences, and student teaching. These teachers identified common elements of learning from the course, although they shaped and applied those…

A study examined students' reasons for, and implications of, choosing a traditional student teaching program or a field-based program of preservice teacher education. The traditional student teaching program and the field-based program were offered concurrently for a short period of time at Texas A&M University--Commerce. Students enrolled in…