The study identified competencies needed by home economics cooperating teachers and perceived skill levels of cooperating teachers. A model for developing and providing ongoing inservice education was designed. Findings indicated that helping student teachers use teaching models and critical thinking are major needs of cooperating teachers.…

Describes the Jacksonville State University College of Education's knowledge base for teaching, the criteria for clinical experiences, and the commitment to nurturing honorable and principled teaching. (SK)

Studies changes in the motivation of senior student teachers to teach in an urban setting during their student teaching internship in an urban public school. Findings with 38 teacher candidates indicate that motivation to teach in an urban setting was strengthened during student teaching. (SLD)

Argues that a unique combination of (1) the Copernican Plan for block scheduling; (2) the application of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences; and (3) John Dewey's basic ideas about process create a teacher training program in which mastery is an achievable goal. Describes each component and illustrates how each has worked in one…

Examines what is happening in teacher education regarding teaching instructional planning processes, sharing one novice teacher's experiences with instructional planning in the context of secondary-level social-studies student teaching. The story illustrates the complexities involved as student teachers plan for classroom instruction. Four…

Includes "Student Teaching" (Whittington); "Decision to Become an Agriculture Teacher" (Cherrie); "Residential Student Teaching Experience in Environmental Education" (Bires, Naugle); "Now that I Am Older and Wiser" (Perey, Elliot, Foster); "Student Teaching" (Connors, Mundt); "Positive Experiences and Problems Encountered during Student Teaching"…

Presents a study of the beliefs and belief structures of four preservice secondary mathematics teachers as they progress through a four-quarter sequence in mathematics education that includes student teaching. Concludes that the various ways in which the teachers structured their beliefs helped account for the fact that some beliefs were permeable…

This study examines the views of student teachers, classroom teachers, and university-based personnel who participated in an alternative model of student teacher supervision and traditional triad model. A variety of data sources including surveys, interviews, and anecdotal evidence was used to determine the perceptions of the participants.…

In this brief column, the author relates the story of how meeting a boy named Montez in a 10th-grade World Literature class that he was observing during his student-teaching days encouraged him to remain in the profession. He claims that he learned from Montez what no teacher education program or textbook on pedagogy or language arts content could…

As Mr. Goldman empties his backpack, his philosophy of teaching spills out, along with an interesting assortment of odds and ends. In this article Mr. Goldman describes the contents of his L.L. Bean daypack with two large compartments in the back, a smaller forward compartment, and a little zippered pocket in the very front, along with his…

Masafumi Ogawa's paper presents challenge after challenge facing the teacher and the teacher educator in Japan. One has the sense that a lifetime of frustrations with the national curriculum, the set-up of student teaching, and the definition of music as a school subject each made its way into the paper. Even choosing to focus on teacher training…

Student teaching is a key event in the lives of future educators; it can make or break their success in their own classrooms. The selection of qualified cooperating teachers with whom these students will work is accordingly imperative. Student teaching should provide students the opportunity to grow as educators--to learn from those who are more…

Videoconferencing is not a new technology and it has been widely used in educational settings since the mid-1980s. Videoconferencing has evolved into the integration of personal computers to what is now referred to as Web conferencing. In the mid-1990s, Internet Protocol (IP) was introduced into the mainstream but the educational community has…

The purpose of this study was to pilot an alternative student teaching supervision model at a college of education in a US context. In the study, the collaborators used multiple paired dyads to supervise student teachers with multiple supports from college faculty. This study examined how teachers and university faculty planned the use of paired…

Schooling in general, and teacher education in particular, continues to address culture learning primarily from a cognitive orientation. That is, students read, watch films, listen to speakers, observe in classrooms and hold discussions around issues of cultural difference. This continues in spite of the growing body of research that demonstrates…