University supervisors must work with the cooperating teachers in inservice preparation for improving supervisory skills in dealing with student teachers. Two areas seem to be of prime importance: (1) planning and preparation spent by the student teachers before teaching, and (2) conferencing with the student teachers. (Author)

Deals with results and implications of a national study of Canadian practices in preservice environmental education. Points out needs for improved communication, continued research, more funding, better teaching materials, more attention to the field, and better leadership in teacher training institutions. (JD)

The university supervisor performs three basic activities: (1) phasing the student teacher into the classroom's on-going activities; (2) defining and communicating the purposes and expectations to be fulfilled; and (3) observing and evaluating the performance of the student teacher. (JN)

A study to identify relationships between the amount of exposure students have to education (as a discipline) and their student teaching performances is reported. Students attending the University of Ife from 1973-1976 were studied. A positive relationship was discovered, but other factors need to be researched further. (MLW)

It is more satisfactory to use a mechanically produced prediction of candidates' student teaching grades (based on multiple selection criteria) for selection of candidates for teacher education programs than to use any other single criterion. Greater specificity of variables leads to more accurate prediction of student teaching performance. (SB)

The Challenge of Change teacher education simulation program provides opportunities for preservice teachers to analyze and follow up broad issues frequently experienced by classroom teachers. The objectives are a widening of the range of attitudes to educational issues and encouraging decision making on educational issues based on reasoned…

Five types of teaching models intended to facilitate a mutually beneficial relationship between teacher preparation institutions and public schools are presented. (LH)

Student teachers were asked to list the types of assistance they felt they needed to resolve problems they faced in student teaching. Their expressed needs were primarily those related to the need for information about their adequacy as teachers and the need for improved orientation to the student teaching situation. (Author/BEF)

A form of preservice teaching experience is needed that will promote intellectual growth as well as allow for practice teaching and professional socialization. (MM)

Prospective teachers in undergraduate programs of professional teacher education should experience working with children in school settings as well as in the larger community and observe and participate in pre-student teaching and in student teaching where learning experiences for pupils are based on recommended psychological principles of…

Hopes to better understand the perceptions of host teachers of their roles as mentors and the extent to which those perceptions were grounded in reflection on theory and practice. Considers to what extent supervising student teachers results in reflection on theory and practice and what cooperating teachers perceive as their roles in the mentoring…

Analyzes Massachusetts case involving Salem State College decision to prevent a student from continuing his student teaching at an elementary school because of his continued expression of strongly held religious views in the classroom. First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the college's decision rejecting the student's claim that his 1st and 14th…

Provides both a description of a pedagogic method and a demonstration of that method in practice. Describes the use of learning journals in a particular Shakespeare course. Explains that as a part of this course, student who are studying for degrees in English or Drama teach a Shakespeare play to classes in local Year 6, 7, and 8 inner-city London…

Components and content of physical education programs are outlined; characteristics of effective programs are identified, and trends and influences affecting physical education teacher education are discussed. (IAH)

An observation technique is presented that is designed to give teachers and future teachers a means of furthering their own training in teaching second languages. This technique is based on an approach that links theory and practice with an emancipatory process and complements already available observation schemes. (67 references) (Author/MSE)