One of four articles in the third section, "Reflection: What We Have Learned," this article describes one university's journey from a traditional teacher education program to one that included professional development schools (PDS). Presents six key elements that helped make the journey successful. (SM)

Describes several exploratory sites where peacemaking is becoming an integral part of teacher education and reeducation within a university, research site, and student teaching practicum. The paper introduces a peacemaking school, highlighting shared learning of an experienced and a student teacher who wrote, read, talked, listened, and problem…

Increased emphasis has been placed on student teachers' practical experiences in Scottish schools resulting from government policy specifying teacher competencies, student teachers' views of their learning experience, and research into the nature and contribution of practicing teachers' knowledge. Addresses implications concerning this shift of…

This article places the teaching internship experience in an analytical context, suggesting that the process by which interns become teachers is best understood as a rite of passage into the culture of teaching. Following three interns through the process, the paper examines rites of separation, of transition, and of incorporation. (SM)

Professional literature highlights the importance of school-family connections for increasing student success. Parent-teacher collaboration to support student learning is one competency in new standards for beginning teachers. Universities can provide experiences to help future teachers understand diversity. Student teaching provides optimal…

This study analyzed two student teachers whose contradictory beliefs about teaching went unrecognized and unresolved and subsequently affected their professional growth. The study used interviews, observations, and student teacher journals to examine the nature of learning experiences. Results suggest implications for program administrators,…

Analyzes a classroom lesson in which a student teacher was unsuccessful in providing a conceptually based justification for the standard division-of-fractions algorithms, focusing on the student teacher's beliefs about good mathematics teaching and learning to teach. Attempts to understand why the lesson failed, what it reveals about learning to…

The effects of three approaches to student teaching seminars were examined. Student teachers were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: coping skills training, classroom management training, or general education discussion groups. Analysis indicated that content-specific training positively affected classroom management skills,…

Metaphor development and videotape analysis were used within a student teaching seminar to examine elementary student teachers' ideas about classroom management and ways those ideas changed with experience. The student teachers had complex views of management. They thought about management in preventive, nonpunitive terms but seemed more…

This article describes development and implementation of a project that required students to prepare portfolios to demonstrate acceptable levels of professional knowledge and teaching skill. Findings are presented from an inquiry into reviewers' (n=100) and students' (n=230) opinions about portfolio-based assessment. (IAH)

Describes Project REACH which provided regular education student teachers intensive summer school training in accommodating students with disabilities in regular education settings. Questionnaires indicated participants had a positive response to the experience with greater awareness of the individual needs of students. (SM)

Contends that the student teaching experience and the cooperating teacher are the most significant aspects of the teacher education process. Describes the features and the implementation of clinical supervision in art education. Concludes that cooperating teachers also benefit as a result of their experiences with student teachers. (CFR)

This study examined preservice teachers' locus of control, collecting data from students at one university with most practical experience during the final year and one with practical experience integrated throughout four years. Students from the latter university gained greater confidence and knowledge through continuing experience in public…

Examines computer-mediated communication (CMC) in preservice teacher education, documenting emerging problems and arising needs. After describing CMC and categorizing its utilization in preservice teacher education, the paper calls for creation of new CMC technologies that nurture preservice teachers' learning and discusses a Web-based classroom…

Examined a program that paired preservice teachers with doctoral-student mentors during student teaching and joined the dyads to form a community. Data from observations, conferences, interviews, meetings, lesson plans, and journals indicated that traditional roles of students, supervisors, and cooperating teachers changed. Participants…