This article describes a project to teach consultation and collaboration to high school teacher interns and school psychology students at the university level. For 4 years, students participated in a performance-based project as part of a class. Surveys were mailed to graduates to determine the impact of the experience and their current…

A study involving two groups of graduate teacher-education students was undertaken to compare the effectiveness of traditional post-baccalaureate teacher training with that of a funded, innovative, selective program for liberal arts graduates known as the Lyndhurst Program. The performance of these two groups of subjects on the Pre-Professional…

Educators and researchers nationwide are examining the contributions of induction programs to new teachers as they enter the profession. This time of transition is being held by many as increasingly important for the successful occupational adjustment of new teachers and the retention of quality teachers. It also is believed to affect the degree…

This pacing guide is a detailed outline that provides trainees with a building-block approach to the aquisition of teaching skills. In addition, it provides clarity to the roles and responsibilities of the intern, the cooperating teacher, and the supervisor, and coordinates the classroom experience for the third semester of a four-semester…

TO TEST THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF 3 TRAINING PROCEDURES FOR ACQUIRING A TEACHING SKILL, EACH APPLYING REINFORCEMENT PRINCIPLES, STANFORD TEACHER INTERNS WERE VIDEOTAPED ON 4 OCCASIONS DURING THE FIRST 20 MINUTES OF CLASS. EACH INTERN SAW A VIDEOTAPE PLAYBACK WITHIN 3 DAYS (NEW LESSONS WERE VIDEOTAPED WITHIN 2 DAYS AFTER PLAYBACK).…

NATIONAL TEACHER CORPS INTERNS ENROLLED IN A PROGRAM FOR TEACHING THE DISADVANTAGED (TYPICAL NUMBER OF 35 TO 40 PERSONS) WERE RATED BY FACULTY MEMBERS AT EIGHT UNIVERSITIES ON (1) ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, (2) TEACHING AND FIELD PERFORMANCE, (3) RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DISADVANTAGED, (4) PERSONAL STABILITY AND STRENGTH, (5) INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS,…

This report presents the proceedings from an October, 1979, meeting of 29 New England principals involved with Teacher Corps projects. The objectives of the forum were (1) to share school climate improvement techniques, (2) to facilitate relationship building among principals and project directors, (3) to share information on school discipline…

The primary focus of the study is an instrument (developed in the public school setting) entitled, "Professional Teaching Competencies," which clusters interrelated planning and implementation competencies around instructional roles of the teacher. The concept, "Stages of Mastery," is used as the evaluation method. The study summarizes data…

This monograph analyzes the current situation in the school-college relationship in preparing school personnel and suggests some future developments. The growth of this cooperation is traced from its tentative beginnings in the early years of the century to the much greater activity of the 1960's. The rationale for cooperation and partnership is…

With the teacher surplus encouraging training institutions to raise their selection criteria, the teacher trainees (interns) in the Stanford Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP) could be considered to represent future populations of teacher trainees. To help ascertain the impact of this new population of teachers on education, data on the…

The Cooperative Services for Teacher Education Projects (Co-Op) program is the 1970 Distinguished Achievement Award Entry from St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina. The objectives of the program are a) the provision for a student teaching internship that is an integral part of the cooperating public school units and b) the…

This report describes the internship scheme in Jamaica as a terminal experience following a period spent in the teacher's college acquiring substantive knowledge of the profession. Program emphasis is placed on laboratory and field experience as well as technical competence. Major features of internship include the development of a Teaching…

Describes the successful principal training program developed as a partnership between five Utah school districts and the Brigham Young University College of Education. It uses a modular curriculum and includes an internship under a mentor principal. A sidebar outlines the ten core competencies. (MD)

This article describes a model for conducting collaborative, goal-oriented conferences with student interns to enable them to acquire the skills of beginning teachers. The procedures and rationale of the Supervised Throughput Model are described, and suggestions for its application are made. (JL)

Many teacher educators believe that the intern teacher learns best while he teaches and that the best learning experiences are provided when teaching practices and educational theory are experienced concurrently. (JD)