This packet contains handbooks for vocational education teachers/counselors and for employers, outlining the Douglas County (Oregon) Business and Industry Internship Program. The employer packet describes the internship program, explains the payment plan, describes the application and site identification process, provides a list of suggestions for…

An individualized internship program was developed for a 22-year-old college senior and elementary education major at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College (Indiana). The student had shortcomings in the areas of confidence, poise, classroom management skills, and discipline skills. The internship lasted 8 weeks and required the student to teach in the…

This report provides information on the characteristics and progress of the Teacher Corps '79 project activities conducted by the University of Arkansas in the Pine Bluff School District. Progress is noted in the areas of: (1) master's degrees for Teacher Corps interns in elementary and secondary education; (2) intern courses completed in…

This study was conducted to determine those competencies considered most important by cooperating teachers, student interns, and school of education faculty. Competencies from various sources were combined to form a master list of sixty-five competencies. One-hundred participants were given numbered cards with a competency printed on each. Their…

Many activities are currently going on to improve the quality of teacher education, which ultimately will improve the quality of elementary secondary education. Studies on school effectiveness have led to programs encouraging collaboration and cooperation among educators, redefinition of educational policies, planning for declining enrollment,…

Group conferences, individual study groups, personal visitations, and communication by the principal investigator were utilized to determine the availability and suitability of services for emotionally disturbed children in the four-state area o f Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada which has a low incidence of population in vast territorial…

The result of a week long visit to the ARTTC program, this report identifies program strengths and weaknesses. The basic premise behind this 4 year college program is identified as "belief that persons native to a community and trained in that community are best prepared to teach in it", since these students learn while they teach in 10…

The Graduate School of Education (GSE) at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have collaborated to pilot an on-site training and mentoring program for intern science teachers. Exit interviews suggest that its innovative mentoring…

Describes the North Country Mentor/Intern Teacher Regional Consortium, which provides training and supervision to 11 pairs of mentors and beginning-teacher interns in 4 rural New York school districts through a partnership with the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Discusses program design, goals, needs assessment, training activities,…

Argues for the inclusion of adult second-language (L2) learners in teacher education programs. The article offers reasons why they should be included, suggests means of tapping their expertise, and describes four ways to bring learners and student teachers together in mutually beneficial ways in their teacher education program. (28 references)…

The Institute of Education (Utrecht University, Netherlands) has developed a one-year immersion teacher education program for beginning teachers. The program consists of two days per week on campus with the other days spent as classroom teachers; it includes intensive supervision by a cooperating teacher and a university faculty member. In this…

To address the shortage of special education teachers, California State University (CSU), Chico in collaboration with rural, isolated school districts in CSU's service area, designed a two-year, on-the-job training program that recruited, prepared, and supported new special education teachers. Candidates, selected collaboratively by the University…

In 1987, in an effort to reform their preservice teacher education program, the University of Tennessee initiated a 5-year extended teacher training program. In contrast to traditional 4-year programs, future teachers begin their fifth year of professional study as interns after earning a baccalaureate degree in a subject area. This study was…

This practicum was designed to increase elementary education interns' use of video technology within the science curriculum. Interns from previous semesters were not using technology within their final semester projects, and most were not comfortable using technology. The purpose of this practicum was to increase the scientific and technological…

An exchange program between the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and the University of New Mexico (UNM) provided 12 interns to the APS in exchange for 7 outstanding classroom teachers to serve as clinical supervisors in the undergraduate program at UNM for a period of one academic year. The interns worked with the joint support and supervision of…