A secondary science teacher education program at University of Iowa is outlined. The three required methods courses and the student teaching component are described, as well as supervision of preservice teachers by cooperating teachers and university faculty. (IAH)

Guidelines for selection and professional training of the university supervisor of student teachers are presented. Also included is a summary of responses by 136 cooperating teachers to a questionnaire on effective supervision. (IAH)

This paper describes preservice teacher education in China, focusing on tracks or programs for Chinese teacher education, the current situation, innovations and reform, and prospects for the future. Achievements in Chinese higher teacher training institutions over the past 10 years are noted. (SM)

Uses the provocative metaphor of becoming a nudist to illustrate that teachers should write, and share their writing, with their students. Describes a program in which student teachers spent six weeks in class and seven weeks in student teaching and were required to keep journals in which they reflected on what they had learned. (PA)

Researchers examined student teachers' multicultural education lessons, describing the frequency and importance of their responses to multicultural education self-evaluation and differentiating among instructional approaches for including multicultural education concepts. A need for universities to solidify links between foundation courses and…

In an Ontario pilot project, one elementary school became a teacher education center, the site of all practicum sessions for 18 student teachers, who were assigned in pairs. Student teachers, cooperating teachers, and faculty advisors endeavored to develop a supportive open environment of reflection and intellectual inquiry. (SV)

Examines ways to understand the experiences of student teachers facing their first practicum work. Preservice teacher education has some of the character of initiation into a community, and it must help student teachers see the deeply ethical and ecological character of their responsibilities. (SM)

Three related studies of the impact of variations in classroom and field experiences on preservice students' knowledge, skill, and reflectiveness are reported. Videotaped and live demonstrations of teaching strategies (the schema-theoretic approach and a conventional approach) and clinical seminars and microteaching were compared. (IAH)

Presents a report by the Conference on English Education's Commission on the Transition to Teaching, offering extensive guidelines in two major sections: (1) Guidelines for Student Teaching Experience in English Language Arts; and (2) Guidelines for the Induction of Beginning English Language Arts Teachers. Presents a 49-item representative…

Describes the role of boundary spanners, who facilitate the development of school/university partnerships. After describing the ideal partnership, offers examples of real issues that emerge when building partnerships and analyzes the surreal aspects of boundary spanning. Concludes with specific suggestions for developing school/university…

Presents the results of a study on using the electronic bulletin board system (BBS) as computer-mediated communication to promote reflective thinking among student teachers in a teaching practicum course at National Taiwan Normal University. Reports student feedback that showed interactions with peers was a positive influence. (Author/LRW)

Offers a discussion, in the form of a portfolio, of how the author helps student teachers reflect on their teaching through learning portfolios including artifacts on the culture of teaching, pedagogical insights, big risks and monumental leaps, and failures. Notes that these portfolios often surprise and instruct the author about students'…

Investigates the fears pre-internship student teachers have and compares the students rated as having "outstanding" versus "good" teaching potential. Reveals that the top two fears are inadequacy in discipline and failing as a teacher; both groups demonstrated the former while the "good" students expressed the latter twice as frequently as the…

Examines how sequential-behavior feedback affects the practice-teaching experiences of four undergraduate teacher trainees. Results show strong positive results for teacher-trainee improvement in meeting instructional and organizational challenges in the classroom, in moving from an organizational to an instructional focus, and in pupil…

Discusses gender issues in science education and argues that teachers are not using appropriate teaching strategies to provide gender equity in their classrooms. Presents a study focusing on science teachers' perceptions of gender and science instruction and the cooperating teacher's role in the student teaching practicum. (Contains 46…