This document, comprised of three major sections, is designed to aid individuals and groups in instituting field-experience education programs. Section 1 details the step-by-step procedures for designing a nontraditional program. Section 2 details the process of developing, selecting, monitoring, and evaluating internship experience. In these two…

This document organizes reports concerning teacher intern programs and participants into two parts: explanatory and evaluative. Reports reviewed in the first part define distinguishing features of the intern pattern of teacher preparation, its status, and its historic development. The second part contains reports of research about the…

This program is made up of three phases. The first phase consists of 7 weeks of on-campus instruction; the second phase consists of a full year of intern teaching; and the third phase is another 7 weeks on campus to review the intern experience. Each student entering the program is expected to know enough of his subject to meet certification…

This report describes the year-long teaching internship at Seattle Pacific College (S.P.C.). Following completion of the sophomore block, a 10 quarter hour block including a daily public school laboratory experience, 75 students were placed in a year-long internship assignment in four public schools. Under the internship plan, after completion of…

This is the fourth in a series of reports comprising a nationwide review of the Teacher Corps program; it assesses the program at the University of Southern California and participating schools in Los Angeles and Riverside counties. The program focused on the special educational needs of Mexican-American and black children living in the Los…

Investigated the collaborative efforts by way of desktop video conferencing between beginning instructional designers and intern teachers. Discusses the impact of a real-world context for designing instruction on beginning instructional designers and the opportunity for intern teachers to experiences the process of instructional design, and…

Examines the influence of 2 teaching routines (Concept Anchoring and Concept Comparison) taught to 12 teaching interns in a university general-methods course on urban high school students' learning evaluated by intern-constructed content quizzes. Half of the interns used the routines; the other half used lectures. Finds no differences in student…

We have investigated how open attitudes, attribution beliefs, pedagogical knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge were related to teaching performance among teacher interns. The participants were 72 teacher interns in Hong Kong, where large-scale education reform has been launched since 2000. Multiple methods (self-report, academic grades,…

This handbook for team leaders contains five chapters. The first deals with the team leader as liaison between all other persons and institutions connected with a particular program. The second discusses changes required of interns in assuming the role of team leader after having been a teacher. The third chapter describes the team leader's…

As public school districts have begun to develop optional alternative schools, a common concern has been where to find trained teachers to staff the schools. For the past four years Indiana University has worked closely with several of these school districts in developing a field-based teacher education program to prepare new teachers for these…

This paper outlines a seven-step program for helping teacher interns deal with classroom behavioral problems. In step 1, "preassessment of interns," interns indicate a lack of training in the area of behavior modification through discussion and classroom behavior. In step 2, "instructional objectives," interns observe and discuss principles of…

A study was conducted to evaluate certain formats for providing feedback of student opinion during teacher training. A class of 69 interns were randomly assigned to five treatment groups and one of their classes was chosen to be used in the experiment. In Febraury each class in three of the groups was given the Bryan Student Opinion Questionnaire…

This paper describes the five teacher education learning centers developed by the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham to integrate theory and practice in teacher education, to shape responsibility for teacher preparation, to better utilize university and school resources, to provide inservice teacher education, and to extend individualized…