Summarizes a 1993 year-long study of six beginning school administrators's career-transition experiences. Based on data gathered through interviews with these administrators and the author's own experience, this article offers recommendations for new principals and assistant principals covering three professional-development areas: academic…

Education majors need an updated field experience aimed at studying adolescents from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Visiting a local shopping mall on a Friday night to observe teens in their natural habitat is entertaining and enlightening. By surveying kids, college students can find out what teens value and examine their own…

Describes a collaboration between a university class (on "writing for elementary teachers"), a professor, a first-grade class, and the first-grade teacher, in which the university students and professor visited the first-grade class four times. Notes how all participants enjoyed and profited from the experience. (SR)

Analyzes administrative content areas prioritized according to competence and aspiration by midmanagement (principal) interns over an eight-year period as they completed administrative certification programs. Interns were primarily concerned with areas of practice involving instructional leadership and were less concerned about certain technical…

A 20-week experiential pharmaceutical training program was developed to meet the learning objectives of a traditional externship/clerkship program without the arbitrary separation of clinical activities from distributive and management experiences, and to provide understanding of the purpose of managed care practice and strategic planning process…

Development of college and university degree programs based entirely on workplace learning is increasing and is characterized by responsiveness to employee educational needs, employer demand, restricted government funding for higher education, and institutions' need to appeal to wider markets. These newer approaches cause considerable tension in…

Reviews the rationale for including prevention in the clinical medicine clerkship. Summarizes current guidelines, presents examples of curricula in several medical schools, and proposes a future direction that stresses integrating teaching preventive medicine into internal medicine clerkships and across the entire four-year medical curriculum. (DB)

Sixty-four master's of social work (MSW) students reported on observational-participatory and conceptual linkage learning activities used in their first- and second-year field placements. Greater use of some activities was associated with student satisfaction and perception of quality but not with field instructors' ratings of student performance.…

Describes a unique field experience, an outgrowth of a partnership with Seton Hall University and The Liberty Science Center (New Jersey), that immerses K-12 teachers in innovative methods of learning and teaching science. Notes the program helps teachers gain firsthand experience, use interactive exhibits at a science center, and adopt the…

Field experiences of college students in adult/workplace (n=10), secondary (n=15), and nursing (n=14) education were compared. Common outcomes included professional socialization, confidence in professional roles, and the desire to make a difference. Field experience quality depended on the type of practice opportunities and nature of the setting.…

Presents the case of a year long course based on fieldwork activities provided to secondary school mathematics preservice teachers just before their student teaching practicum. Argues that fieldwork experiences may help prospective teachers in developing a professional discourse and in assuming a professional identity. (Author/MM)

The Human Service Education program at the University of Tennessee uses a prefield seminar to provide a foundation from which to facilitate field students learning and engage students as partners directing their own learning process. Benefits include a sense of universality; answers to their pressing field questions; and practice using…

This article describes a program at the University of Hawaii that recruits individuals with training in general education for a special education certification program. Program features include strategies for aligning course and field requirements and the infusion of cultural and linguistic considerations of the school population. (Contains…

This study examined guilt feelings among social work students who were pregnant for the first time during field work training. Semi-structured interviews were conducted either in the 9th month (n=5) or 2-12 months after delivery (n=5). Content analysis revealed 6 main triggers, illustrated by excerpts, which stimulated field students' guilt…

Prepracticum service-learning is an integral part of the curriculum for counselor education students at a large southwestern university. Service-learning is accomplished by placing novice students in school or community agency settings to acquire early, practical, field-based experience. Activities are more structured and supervised than in an…