At the heart of the secondary teacher education collaboration between the East Longmeadow School District (Massachusetts) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are the faculty at East Longmeadow High School and Birchland Park Middle School who have prepared to be mentors for student teachers. This volume contains reflections by these…

Intended to provide background information for task force use, this set of working papers concludes with recommendations for revising the University of Oregon College of Education teacher preparation programs. Section I summarizes the concerns of Oregon educators, reports recommendations made by an ad hoc state committee and the chancellor, and…

A report is given on the redesign of the teacher education program at Southeast Missouri State University, which will integrate both preservice and inservice teacher education into one continuous process. Changes in the program design include: (1) development of more rigorous requirements for admission; (2) identification and implementation of…

A review of the literature on the transfer of preservice teacher training to the classroom suggests that several definitive factors enhance transfer. A social studies methods course was developed with these factors in mind, and included directed reading activities (DRA) with a text, controversial topic discussion, and inquiry. During the academic…

This book contains seven papers presented at a conference on the future of teacher education. Richard M. Hersh examines the social organization of the school and the school's instruction and curriculum in "What Makes Some Schools and Teachers More Effective." In "Teacher Education: Needed Research and Practice for the Preparation of Teaching…

The history of teacher education and the evolution of student or practice teaching in the United States during the last two centuries can be traced through three periods: (1) Normal School Period (1825-1900); (2) Teacher College Pariod (1900-1948); and (3) Field-Based Period (post World War II). Normal schools emerged as a more formalized system…

Differences of perspective exist between the school and the university in terms of all the elements of the teacher training program. From the public school point of view, the teacher training institution makes the decisions about student teaching, and the public schools carry them out. The university viewpoint is often that public school personnel…

A study was conducted to determine the role level of cooperating teachers in decision making in teacher education field experiences and their attitudes about the role they wish to play. Information was gathered using an opinionnaire mailed to 175 cooperating teachers in elementary, secondary, and K-12 education levels involved in the 1976-77…

This paper reports on two studies in which the effectiveness of two types of student teacher supervisors was rated by cooperating teachers and by student teachers. The first study examined cooperating teachers' and student teachers' perceptions of specific performance aspects of university (college faculty) supervisors and of teaching assistants.…

This outline of instruction and student guide for a postsecondary level course for instructors is one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. The course is designed to provide the neccesary information that the student will need in planning and…

Relationships among the positions operating in the student teaching situation can be viewed as an interaction system. Role conflicts, or contradictory role expectations that are held by the student teacher, supervising teacher, college supervisor, and school administrator tend to interfere in their interactive relationships in student teaching…

A 1-year course for student teachers seeking certification for the nursery through the sixth grade is outlined in this document. The content of the course is divided into four areas: (1) directed observation (what can be learned from observation of the classroom; (2) learning and teaching of an individual child (how we know the individual child);…

Defining both the general and specific aims of the Indian Teacher Education Program (ITEP) at the University of Saskatchewan, this monograph presents a detailed program description. Specifically, the following are discussed: (1) Equal Certification (special certificates of any kind which limit a minority group in any manner are not considered…

This handbook is primarily designed for Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), Instructional Assistants (IAs) and Teacher Trainees (TTs) in the Department of Near Eastern Studies (NES), Formerly Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, at the University of Michigan. The contents of the Handbook, however, can be of service to all teacher…

A study was undertaken to investigate differences in classroom teaching behavior between secondary student teachers placed in a teacher education center and student teachers in the traditional student teaching setting. Data were gathered from questionnaires to all participants and from in-situ observations of selected students using an observation…