This study examined perceived teaching adequacies of elementary teachers at the University of South Dakota on 31 teaching competencies prior to their student teaching experience and immediately following that experience. Classroom supervising teachers rated their student teachers on those same teaching competencies at the conclusion of student…

Illinois State University's McLean County Teacher Education Center has prepared a handbook for the cooperating teachers in its elementary student teaching program. This handbook serves as a guide for the cooperating teachers as they work with the teacher candidates throughout the semester. It can also serve as a model for the development of other…

A study was undertaken to consider existing, as well as hitherto untried methods, to measure competencies of student teachers in the special education fields and to assess the effectiveness of teacher training programs. The survey, conducted at a university in the Southeast, compared the self-evaluations of 32 undergraduate special education…

Student teaching is only a successful experience if it assists the prospective teacher in developing effective classroom control techniques and evolving a personal teaching style. In order to make student teaching useful, four factors should be considered. First, profiles should be developed on the student teacher and the cooperating teacher…

This handbook was developed as a guide for student teachers, supervising teachers, and cooperating teachers participating in the student teaching program at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio, Texas). Section 1, the introduction, lists the six objectives of the student teaching program. Section 2 delineates program guidelines and policy. The…

This study was designed to determine the feasibility of using the Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments (TPAI) to evaluate student teacher performance in northern Nevada by a more accurate and mutually acceptable method. Developed and validated by the University of Georgia, passing the TPAI is required for teacher certification in Georgia.…

This pamphlet offers advice on planning, conducting, and evaluating effective conferences during supervised student teaching. Sections cover: (1) types of conferences needed--formal and informal conferences with the building principal, the student teacher, cooperating teachers, and college supervisor, and conferences with other teachers and…

This research investigates the rules by which three Montessori teachers -- a head teacher and two student teachers -- attribute causes of student and teacher behavior within and outside their classrooms. Availability information is given in SO 504 073. (Author/RM)

The attitudes of student teachers and supervising teachers were tested according to six attributional categories: (1) pupil ability; (2) pupil effort; (3) student teacher's ability to teach; (4) student teacher's effort; (5) help from the supervising teacher; and (6) difficulty of the task. Several conclusions were reached: (1) When pupils succeed…

The focus of this study was to analyze the learning benefits accrued by the experienced teacher from supervising a secondary social studies student teacher. Teachers in the Puget Sound region of the state of Washington were surveyed. They were asked to respond to questions to determine how well participating in the supervision of the student…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the role of the college supervisor, supervising teacher, and laboratory school participant as perceived by those occupying the three interacting positions. Participants in the study responded to role perception instruments, and an analysis of variance was computed to determine whether significant…

This study proved an alternate secondary teacher education program at the University of Victoria to be a success. The most distinguishing characteristic of the program is that selected student teachers spend the entire school year situated in one of two secondary schools in the Saanich, British Columbia, school system. During this time students…

The La Colina Teacher Center had a live-in supervisor who taught part of the day and worked in teacher education part of the day. The general goals for this unique situation were to: 1) increase the contact the supervisor had with student teachers and cooperating teachers, 2) better integrate the student teachers into $he school's program, 3)…

The twofold purpose of this study was to examine the impact of student teachers on pupil achievement and to investigate whether or not cooperating teachers and college supervisors were able to discriminate between those variables that correlated with pupil attainment. Fourteen classrooms of learners who had two different student teachers during…

Beliefs and judgment "policies" of student teachers, cooperating teachers, and college supervisors are examined. Results from a belief questionnaire and judgment task converged to indicate: (a) a large degree of shared belief and similarity in judgments of "good teaching" are present before student teaching begins, (b) institutional differences…