This descriptive analysis of Michigan State's Student Teacher Education Project (STEP) focuses on the problems encountered in its acceptance and first five years of operation. Basic data for the analysis was obtained from systematic evaluation interviews with students, their instructors and supervisors, and members of the project staff. Chapter 1…

This document is divided into three sections. Section I describes, from a historical viewpoint, the need for teacher education programs in Jamaica and the subsequent development of the internship program. Internship for a teacher is defined as "a terminal experience in his preparation sequence, preceded by acquisition of a body of substantive…

The Vermont Teacher Corp is an experiment in field-centered, competency-based teacher education, utilizing performance criteria to measure progress of the individual student intern. Much of the intern's time is spent in school-community service; course work is done through consultation and independent study. Main objectives are a) to develop and…

The Elementary Teacher Education Project in Compensatory Education was instituted in 1967-68 at San Fernando Valley State College for the purpose of preparing teachers to work effectively with the disadvantaged at the elementary school level. Main features of the program included student teaching and intern teaching in disadvantaged urban areas;…

A teaching internship program for intermediate education (grades 4-9) majors in their third year was set up by three local universities in Washington County, North Carolina. The program was four-fold and consisted of a) a daily 2-week preservice training program, b) an in-service training program during the academic year, c) academic course work,…

To more nearly relate teaching skills or enabling competencies to the real performance world of the teacher, the Teacher Corps program at Emporia State College proposes that the intern demonstrate teacher competencies through a series of performance projects in each of five performance areas. These performance areas, selected from the real…

College professors go into the real world of elementary and secondary school teaching to experience first hand the kinds of problems for which professional preparation programs should be preparing students. (MM)

A survey was conducted to ascertain how school personnel perceived a visiting teacher -- school social work service. Attitudes were positive when student interns were present in the school and performing tasks perceived as being necessary for the service. (BY)

Reports that the internship experience gave English teacher education students in a sample population greater confidence that they possessed certain content area-specific qualifications deemed important to English teaching. Suggests ways such information can be used to benefit teacher preparation programs. (FL)

Discussed in this article are the theoretical advantages and possible limitations of two recent trends in teacher education--internships and microteaching. Topics considered include the values of internship, supervision and analysis, and the overemphasis on technique. (EB)

The Micronesian/Ponape Teacher Corps Project brings together the services of several organizations and agencies to (a) upgrade basic and professional skills of Micronesian interns; (b) implement a University Without Walls baccalaureate program; (c) demonstrate a model for teacher training; (d) utilize and support the teacher education programs at…

The nature of outstanding and weak performance in a teaching internship and how to predict that performance were studied with 100 interns. Personal qualities dominated the list of factors contributing to both success and failure. Expected indicators were not good predictors of success when judged independently of personal qualities. (SLD)

By collaborating with local school districts, Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, provides its education students with expanded opportunities. (Author/TE)

Presents a letter offering help for an overwhelmed first-year middle school teacher hating teaching. Offers a response from her former college professor commiserating with her, advocating survival as a perfectly good goal, offering four suggestions, and remembering his own desire to quit early in his teaching career. Includes the beginning…

Alternative certification programs are designed to allow individuals with significant subject-matter background to complete their teacher preparation education while teaching full time in a participating school district. Although these teachers tend to be highly committed, there are concerns about their effectiveness. (JOW)