There is a dominant paradigm of teacher education within the teaching profession; that only through the experience of undertaking professional practice can a student become a teacher. This approach, the "apprenticeship of observation" model (Borg, 2004 using the term coined by Lortie, 1975) describes the way in which teacher education students are…

Alternative and parallel schooling contexts such as the Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools[R] provide educational experiences for U.S. K-12 students grounded in notions of social justice and culturally responsive teaching. College-aged young adults known as "servant-leader interns" are the teachers in this context. In this article, the author…

Background: In the era of education reform when new teaching approaches are being advocated, it is important to investigate how different classroom discourse patterns are related to different educational outcomes. Aim: The purpose of the study was to analyse the whole classroom discourse of two teacher interns' writing classes. It was conducted…

This handbook, which represents the thinking of cooperating teachers on a number of issues important to all Teacher Corps programs, provides an overview of the area of concern of cooperating teachers in working with interns. Part 1 describes the role of the cooperating teacher and provides guidelines for a smooth induction of interns into the…

A nationwide sample survey of teachers showed that one-half favor internship for beginning teachers and that two-thirds believe that principals should be employed initially as administrative interns. (DB)

We used border crossing as a theoretical framework to explore the tensions that developed between two mentor-intern pairs during the course of a yearlong internship in high schools in the United States. Interviews with mentors and interns, and observations of planning sessions, teaching episodes, and follow-up conferences indicated that differing…

This article examines three models of field experience for teacher education: the apprentice model, the anthropologist model, and the intern model. (JA)

Data were collected and analyzed to determine the extent to which a select group of teacher interns (from the Stanford Secondary Teacher Education Program) can be placed and retained in teaching. (Authors/JA)

Three successive groups of education students enrolled in a fifth year M.Ed. program were tested in a longitudinal study for differences between their attitudes after completing the academic portion of the program (first semester) and after completing internship (second semester), which involved full teaching responsibility along with biweekly…

This article details the procedures and results of the evaluation of intern teaching competence in the Teacher Corps Project, Sixth Cycle, originated in August 1971. (JA)

Describes a program intended to train for inner city education media specialists ranging from doctoral candidates to individual course participants. (LS)