This handbook for student teachers and teacher education center faculty members explains the purposes of field experiences in the teacher education program of Southwest Minnesota State College (SMSC), outlines suggested behaviors for the people directly involved in the program, and answers some common questions. Some general information concerning…

This document contains proceedings of the conference attended by 286 participants including public school personnel, those from teacher preparation institutions, and other educators. There are four main sections, one for each topic discussed. Main speeches are presented in full: "Preparation of Teachers for the Inner City" by Robert T. Wheeler;…

The Florida Parent Education Follow Through Model (See ED 028 140 and ED 028 139) has fostered institutional change at the University of Florida in two ways: professors and making use of increased knowledge and understanding of the disadvantaged in their instructional content and format and the University has developed and had approved a 2-year…

This interdisciplinary secondary school teacher education program which involves no course work in the ordinary sense evolved from an effort to move the emphasis in the teacher education program from abstractions and general principles to specific problems in the various subject curriculums. Its objective is to promote early behavior change in the…

This paper reports the last phase of planning and development for the Experimental Pilot Program in Teacher Education (EPPTE) which begins in September 1969 as an effort to find an effective alternative to the conventional model for training teachers. Activities of the project staff are described in the areas of (1) Publicity, including response…

This paper defines field-based teacher education and offers some generalizations concerning field-based teacher education programs. Field-based teacher education is defined as an on-site teacher education center in a school or group of schools that may be used for observing, practicing methodology, and learning and practicing methods on-site the…

This followup study investigates the effects of a teacher center program on North Texas State University elementary education graduates after one year of teaching. Subjects were 55 teachers in inner-city schools and middle-class schools. Three instruments, the Directed Imagination Test, One Word Sentence Completion Test, and the Self Report…

The Crestwood Community-Based Learning Experiences Project was undertaken to test the feasibility of conducting an out-of-school learning program and to determine the cost of establishing such a program. For 3 months, 6 teachers and 206 fifth-grade children participated in a total of 20 field experiences which were implemented at three levels: a)…

Project Merge is a cooperative, field-based in-service and preservice teacher education program; it is a systematic field based, cooperative approach to teacher education, instruction, and curriculum development. The project has been field validated and is competency based. It has three interrelated phases: a) an in-service program which affects…

The Gary-Indiana-Moorhead State College Project (GIMSC) in Cooperative Urban Teacher Preparation comprised a mix of professional courses in education with field and clinical experiences in the inner city. This report describes various aspects of the program including travel allowance, tuition, and costs; housing and cooperating schools; rationale…

The Oklahoma City-Central State University Cooperative Program in Teacher Education is designed to provide student teachers preparing for middle school careers with a more realistic opportunity to integrate educational theories of learning and behavior with day-to-day public school experiences. A maximum of 25 students spend a full semester in an…

To offer the best field work experiences to a graduate student, it is necessary to plan carefully the types of assignments that the student will have. The author feels that in some instances, the student's vacation periods enhance treatment, and in other instances severly retard treatment gains. (Author)

A model field experience program is described that provides concrete, real-world experiences for preservice teachers early, frequently, and intensively. (JD)

Post-field-experience opinions of teacher candidates revealed beliefs that (1) characteristics of good and bad teachers lie in the affective area; (2) technical skills are more important than cognitive skills; (3) good teaching is viewed as related to skill in instructional techniques; and (4) poor teaching is more highly associated with affective…

Discusses the advantages of using real-life clients for class assignments in copywriting courses. Presents suggestions for client sources and identifies possible problems which may be encountered. (MM)