The three manuals included in this document are the results of a project which revised the student teaching courses offered by the Vocational-Technical Education Department at the State University College at Utica/Rome (New York). (Project procedures involved the following: (1) Materials and ideas available in the department regarding student…

With the creation of Public Act 761 in 1967, the State of Connecticut became one of the first states to encourage a program of collaboration and parity between schools and colleges in teacher education activities. The law took advantage of the one point in teacher education where theory and practice meet: the clinical experience of supervised…

This document presents summaries of eight efforts made to provide teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors necessary to improve intergroup relations in desegregated schools. Projects covered are: (1) the Chapel Hill (North Carolina) schools' student teaching project; (2) interinstitutional seminars in Norfolk, Virginia; (3) biracial…

This report presents the results of a curriculum project which produced an instructional design for field supervision. The primary objective was to operationalize the "systems approach" to field supervision by showing how the theory/practice synthesis, learning theory, and variation of newer instructional designs could be used in the student…

This report evaluates the effectiveness of two teacher preparation patterns. Pattern A students take specified professional coursework followed by a one-quarter, full-time teaching practicum. Pattern B Students spend multiple quarters in a classroom under guidance while engaged in professional coursework. A formal assessment of teaching…

The involvement of public school personnel in the education of secondary school teachers was weighed over a period of 4 years in this report. Constructive questions were formulated from interpretation of the data collected. The question of whether university course work should precede public school observation and participation was discussed. It…

This booklet suggests topics to be included in negotiating professional standards in teacher contracts. The first section offers a list of suggested negotiable topics, and the second section lists individual sample negotiations items worded in more specific language which might be suitable for inclusion in a contract proposal. The topics covered…

These 23 papers, each written by a different member of the workshop, are collected as source materials for teacher educators: The Role of the Supervisor in the Teacher Education Program; Orientation Seminar for Supervising Teachers and Administrators; The Supervising Teacher's Role in the Improvement of Student Teaching (2 papers); The College…

This publication presents the guidelines used in developing and implementing the Teacher Internship phase of the Wisconsin Improvement Program. The objectives of this phase include a) provision for a realistic professional assignment for the teacher intern which involves all phases of an educational program; b) provision for an opportunity to put…

The Cooperative Services for Teacher Education Projects (Co-Op) program is the 1970 Distinguished Achievement Award Entry from St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina. The objectives of the program are a) the provision for a student teaching internship that is an integral part of the cooperating public school units and b) the…

Selected outcomes of two preservice teacher education programs in secondary school (7-12) science education at The Ohio State University were assessed. The project program emphasized classroom participation in urban and suburban schools prior to student teaching by enrollment in the first professional quarter (S1) immediately preceding student…

This document is the fourth in an annual survey series summarizing data from the Colleges of Education in Florida's nine state universities. At the end of each quarter, each university forwards a report to a central university system office containing information on students who were assigned to schools to fulfill field experience internship…

Field experience in the classroom is seen as helping education students learn to transfer their theoretical university training into actual practice. (JD)