The effect of student teaching experience on attitudes toward exceptional children was investigated in 70 prospective teachers in the field of elementary and/or special education. Ss were administered the Attitude Toward Disabled Persons Scale (ATDP) and the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) prior to and during the final week of the…

Presented are guidelines for the supervision and training of speech clinicians. It is explained that the guidelines were developed by an Iowa task force of coordinators of clinical speech services who met with supervising clinicians from various universities. Section I includes a comparison of the professional and personal characteristics of the…

Microteaching, a technique for training teachers to develop specific teaching skills through the use of a scaled down classroom situation, has proved to be not only effective but also strongly appealing to teachers. A state-of-the-art paper entitled "Microteaching: History and Present Status" prepared by the authors for the ERIC…

The aim of this locally-funded cooperative enterprise of the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and the College of Education (COE) of the University of New Mexico is to improve the training of secondary and middle school teachers and to improve the secondary English curriculum. Student teachers are selected competitively for the program, which…

The Student Utah Education Association has prepared a set of 21 recommendations for improvement of teacher education at both university and public school levels, with brief notes on the rationale behind each and the action which should be taken. Those relating to teacher education institutions include: the establishment of student-faculty or…

Application of certain anthropological research methods to teacher education, particularly the field experience component, could have a beneficial effect on a future teacher's perception of his role. Present field experience programs can be divided into two types: "apprentice" or student teaching, in which the teacher trainee progresses from…

This publication contains questions and answers regarding the establishment, operation (1966-68), and impact of the Multi-Institution Pilot Center for Student Teaching. Included are (1) a review of the need for change in the laboratory training phase of West Virginia teacher preparation programs; (2) objectives of the pilot center and principles…

A pilot inservice training program for supervising (cooperating) teachers was planned in which traditional roles were modified. It was theorized that decentralization of the responsibility for supervision of student teaching would allow better utilization of the college supervisor's training and time, opportunity for inservice growth and increased…

A study was conducted to develop data concerning the reactions of student teachers to contact with urban, black pupils. Subjects were 130 junior year student teachers (all but two of them white) who were assigned by their state college to four elementary schools in a small city school system. A 34-item questionnaire designed to tap attitudes…

This booklet describes the programs of the 1970 award recipients. Descriptions are arranged according to the three award categories: (1) The Distingushed Achievement Award to Marshall University (W. Va.) for its participation and leadership in the Multi-Institutional Student Teaching Center in cooperation with Kanawha County and six sister…

Since student teaching has been redefined as a study of teaching, its concept and scope have been broadened to encompass a continuous exploration and examination of educational possibilities in various settings and under varying conditions. Such a concept of student teaching cannot be developed in the traditional setting of the public school…

This paper describes an individualized program of teacher training at Indiana University. Student teachers are able to choose their own teaching experience from several projects. The Shawnee Project gives the novice teachers the opportunity to cope with inner-city school problems in real situations. The Urban Semester Project combines student…

The Clinical Approach to Teacher Education at Boise State Colleges places its students into two concurrent classes which run for two consecutive semesters and which emphasize the integration of theory and practice. Its ultimate goal is the development of a culminating year-long internship for the study of child behavior, curriculum, and…

A student teacher is often liable to be placed in a conflictive situation between faculty consultants and cooperating teachers who have widely differing conceptions of the role of the ideal teacher. None of the possible responses of a student teacher are conducive to effective learning, especially the decision to "get by." This conflict can be…

The use of simulation as an instructional alternative for in-service training of supervising teachers becomes increasingly more worthy of study. In reference to the student teacher/supervising teacher relationship, research indicates that the development of communication skills, cultural value systems, professional attitudes and self concept are…