A model for the self-evaluation and professional development of preservice teacher education students is presented. This model, which uses performance statements, provides prospective teachers with the opportunity to learn how to collect, assimilate, organize, and represent data and how to draw conclusions for self-appraisal. (JN)

If they are open to the experience, cooperating teachers can learn a great deal about different teaching methods from their student teachers and from the college supervisor working in their school. (SJL)

Criteria for the selection of cooperating teachers are suggested in an attempt to improve the student teaching experience by equating factors in successful teaching with criteria that cover professional requirements, classroom teaching skills, and subjective factors. (JMF)

Presented are five rules for successful student teaching experiences (practica), designed around clear communication with college supervisors, cooperating institutions, and the student teachers themselves. (KC)

Written lesson plans by 16 secondary student teachers were compared to audiotapes of the lessons as actually taught, including types of class activities intended or used and lesson pacing. From the results, suggestions are made to cooperating teachers on specific ways that they can help student teachers with instructional planning. (SJL)

Identified perceived leadership styles of student teachers and their supervising teachers and compared leadership styles of elementary and secondary student teachers. Student teachers saw themselves as having greater concern for students than did their supervising teachers. Secondary student teachers were significantly more task-oriented than…

General guidelines and suggestions are offered to secondary school teachers for working with and supervising a student teacher in the classroom. (TA)

Describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a workshop for mentor teachers that reflects the collaborative effort of a university and public school faculties. The workshop focused on giving feedback to student teachers. Evaluation data suggest that mentor teachers felt the workshop provided helpful information, teaching them how…

Using time logs, questionnaires, and conference interviews, the researcher identified current feedback practices of cooperating teachers, examining the congruence between the feedback reported by the teachers and by their student teachers. Results indicated a wide gap between recommended supervisory feedback practices and those practices described…

Devised an instrument to screen for attitudes toward systematic supervisory behavior, perceptions of factors impacting supervision, and beliefs about preferences for and styles of supervision. Surveys of physical education cooperating teachers only found significant results on one subscale: cooperating teachers who coached, taught high school, or…

Evaluates two approaches to conveying new ideas about teaching reading to beginning teachers: (1) a traditional approach where an instructor prescribes reading techniques by modeling examples, and (2) an approach in which the instructor and student teacher collaborate to create individual variations beyond the examples provided. (MM)

Findings from a study indicate that cooperating teachers in physical education can improve their supervisory function through training in a behavioral model of supervision. The self-instructional training package has three performance objectives: monitoring, conferencing, and follow-up monitoring. Emphasis is on improved feedback to, and…

Examination of education majors' perceptions of their supervisors' expectations regarding their performance as student teachers were examined. Results show that supervisors did not use uniform evaluation criteria and that there was a low level of congruence between supervisors' and cooperating teachers' views on teaching practice. (Author/CB)

This article discusses problems of beginning teachers and suggests two categories of solutions: increased support during the initial year and increased involvement of principals in the preservice preparation program. Several responsibilities for principals in relation to student teaching are recommended. (IAH)

The article examines five issues that student teachers should discuss with their master teachers and five issues that master teachers should discuss with their student teachers at the beginning of the experience. The issues focus on expectations, attitudes, classroom management, mistakes, help, positive reinforcement, collegiality, and…