This model for collaborative teacher education involves field and university educators working cooperatively to promote quality in teacher preparation programs and to improve the teaching behaviors of graduates. The focus is upon four primary goal statements: (1) public school practitioners are directly involved in preservice teacher education;…

Although microteaching has proved to be a valuable training tool for preservice education majors, some microteaching programs have been curtailed primarily because of the time and expense of maintaining the facilities. An abbreviated four-lesson program for microteaching can be conducted effectively with minimum time and moderate costs. The first…

The influence of supervisory training and experience as a cooperating teacher on the cooperating teacher's role as an instructional supervisor for early field experience students (FES's) was studied. Recent research has indicated that cooperating teachers tend to provide inadequate feedback and avoid negative comments. Their FES's appeared to have…

A program where prospective elementary school teachers spend half-days for five weeks (or some variation) assisting and teaching at a nature center is described. Objectives, activities, related course work, and the role of the supervisor are all discussed. Reported reactions of all persons involved were positive. (LS)

The vast majority of high school students have passed beyond the reading-acquisition stage and face the problem of reading to get meaning from their textbooks. This paper discusses the need for teachers to help students learn from textbooks in the content areas and outlines a program that could train prospective content teachers to help students…

For improvement of practice teaching, this article suggests use and evaluation of television tapes, deriving from these a vocabulary of teaching and "aspect analyses." A catalog of these is given; a list of TV tapes for teaching English, with their availability, is also provided. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Condensed from "The Arithmetic Teacher, Volume 15 (December 1968), 727-34.

From "Educational Leadership/Research Supplement, v2 n5 May 1969, edited by the Research Council of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (James Raths, Chairman).

This manual is a reference guide for both student teachers and supervisory personnel involved with the Texas Woman's University Bilingual Education "Centro de Accion" (BECA) Program. The BECA program includes the following components in addition to the fulltime BECA undergraduate program: para-professional training program, graduate…

For most student teachers, practice teaching is a difficult and anxiety-provoking experience. Anxiety arises when feelings of self-adequacy and security are threatened. A survey of 84 teacher education majors shows that anxiety levels are often high immediately prior to the internship; however, the anxiety level gradually declines by the middle of…

Based on James Rath's theoretical/conceptual model, the Sullivan Performance Based Teacher Observation Scale (SPBTOS) is offered here to help teachers and teacher educators observe, record, compare, and evaluate the strategies of student teachers in performance based and traditional teacher training programs. The 14-page scale consists of 13 major…

THE PLAN OF THE RESEARCH INVOLVED PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN TEACHER EDUCATION, AND SUBSEQUENT EVALUATION BY TRAINED OBSERVERS OF THE TEACHING PERFORMANCE OF THE SUBJECTS. THE SAMPLE WAS LIMITED TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER CANDIDATES BECAUSE OF THE IMPORTANT ROLE THE ELEMENTARY TEACHER PLAYS IN THE MENTAL…