As part of the contract for a university degree, each student should have to assume some form of teaching assignment for two years. (Author)

This study was concerned with formulating a conceptual scheme related to variables in practice teaching, with devising instruments to define and measure these variables, and with testing the conceptual scheme and instrument(s) with practice teachers. Nine variables related were recognized as relevant and reported in the study. A Verbal Behavior Q…

It was hypothesized that when no standard of "good teaching" is set for the self-evaluation of teaching performance, behavior changes and patterns of information selection would be determined by the teacher's satisfaction with his performance (the smaller the satisfaction, the fewer self-evaluating changes take place and the less teaching-related…

Listed are the objectives needed to be achieved by specific learning disability interns in order to be ready to assume a teaching position in the field of specific learning disabilities. (JYC)

Characteristics of professionally sound alternative preparation programs are discussed in terms of admissions, core courses, faculty and student time, simulation activities, and academic preparation. The Lyndhurst Fellowship Program at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Memphis State University is described. (MT)

Presents a set of proposals for teacher training that include much expanded in-service training, a new internship scheme, and a preliminary liberal arts and science course. (HS)

A description of the Temple University Intern Teaching Program for College Graduates. (MM)

The author advises new interns that their success as teachers will depend critically on their ability to manage time--to handle lessons, administrative tasks, counseling, and social activity all within the framework of a 50- to 60-minute class period. (SJL)

This study grew out of a course I teach for undergraduate teacher certification candidates ("Education in the United States") in which the final assignment--"A cultural memoir of schooling"--requires students to study the events, policies and stakeholders in American education through the experiences of their extended families. The article…

This is a policy that aims at improving teaching practices in rural schools in China. Normal university students are encouraged to participate in educational aid work in disadvantaged schools as a fulfillment of their teaching internship. The policy supports the policies of free compulsory education for rural school issued in the past. In…

The need to equip science teachers with knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to face the challenges of teaching science through inquiry informed this study, which analyzed the secondary science intern teachers' beliefs about inquiry before, during, and following a series of 2 consecutive science methods courses in an attempt to document the…

The effects of a teaching program internship on selected personal and professional characteristics of teacher interns were studied. The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program is a graduate internship built upon an extended practical experience in the laboratory school at the University of Pittsburgh. MAT is a competency based program designed…