Teachers required to use an Elementary Science Study (ESS) unit during student teaching tended to use more of the techniques advocated by ESS in their own classes one year later than did teachers allowed to plan their own approach during student teaching. (AL)

Teaching quality calls for good teacher education programs and supervision in student teaching. (GB)

Twenty-eight secondary science student teachers were included in a self-evaluation study. The instrument consisted of 89 statements describing observable teaching behavior. PGR was found to be useful in teacher evaluation when used with video tape observations. (LS)

Advocates teaching the foreign language methods course in the target language. (DS)

Itemizes the needed objectives of a preservice teacher education program for students preparing to teach unmotivated youth. (DM)

This study determines the nature and extent of student teachers in self concept in 20 subcategories of the student teaching experience. (Author)

Does the music student teaching experience affect student teachers' classroom management beliefs and skills, and as a result of student teaching, do the classroom management beliefs and skills of music student teachers and their cooperating teachers become more congruent? Research indicates that student teaching does not affect student teacher…

Data were gathered describing the market for publishing professional textbooks in home economics teacher education. Results determined which types of professional courses were most commonly offered in home economics teacher education programs; and how many different courses of the same type were offered in the programs surveyed. (Author/CT)

Investigated the relationship between success in student teaching and 13 instruments commonly completed before student teaching and whether the measures predict success in student teaching. The data indicated the measures were ineffective. Suggested alternatives to the instruments used are proposed. (Author/JAC)

To better prepare teachers who will be working with handicapped children, the Dean's Project on Mainstreaming at the University of Michigan has developed a mainstreaming field site in cooperation with the public schools. (This article is part of a theme issue on mainstreaming.) (Editor/SJL)

A study examined the effects of the student teaching experience on the pupil control ideologies of student teachers and attempted to assess the contributions of biography and social structure. Results indicated that cooperating teachers exerted little influence, but that biography and social structure played an important role in the socialization…

Purposes were to (1) identify attitudes of teacher candidates toward teacher characteristics and (2) determine if there was a change in attitudes during student teaching. Subjects (N=120) showed significant positive shifts in attitudes toward the selected characteristics but maintained their feelings that training provided in these concepts is…

Discusses a number of educational trends and reflects upon the ways they will affect the student teaching experience in the future. (FL)