Reports a study that examined the expectations of cooperating teachers regarding nontraditional student teachers. Surveys of 35 cooperating teachers from 9 schools indicated that nearly half of the cooperating teachers believed that age and gender made a difference in how they regarded their student teachers. (SM)

Examined the impact of a preservice program that modeled effective teaching practices for early adolescents and incorporated collaboration between school teachers, preservice teachers, and instructors. Participant surveys and interviews following their first teaching year revealed the relative ease of program implementation within an existing…

Investigated the preparation cooperating teachers received and experiences they desired as evaluators of early field experience students. Interviews with cooperating teachers, university supervisors, and elementary field experience directors indicated that though preparation was not mandatory, respondents endorsed introductory meetings at which…

Indicates the importance of journaling for student teachers to reflect upon the nature of the teaching experience and the increasing of student and supervising teacher communication by e-mail. Describes flexible strategies using a personal digital assistant to facilitate the development of field notes during observations. (Contains 17 references.)…

Describes an alternative student teacher supervision model involving clinical master teachers who assumed the roles of cooperating teacher and college supervisors, highlighting the experiences of four secondary teachers and changes they made in their supervision. Surveys, observations, and interviews indicated that participants perceived…

Examines the relations of power that shaped one elementary preservice teacher's pedagogical discourse and practice, using a poststructuralist, connectionist framework and data from classroom observations of the student teacher and her cooperating teacher to describe multiple social and discursive relations that interconnected to produce what…

Discusses two student teachers' contrasting stories about their attempts to access experienced teachers' wisdom (via interviews), highlighting the shifting power relations between students and their cooperating teachers. Their stories illustrate how student teachers can be powerful yet powerless and suggest that student teachers can develop a…

The aim of this study is to discuss the experiences of prospective teachers during their school placements. For this aim, 41 prospective teachers taking School Experience II and Teaching Practice courses wrote and submitted a one- to two-page reflection of their field-based experiences at the end of the semester. Prospective teachers' written…

Sponsoring a student teacher is a tremendous responsibility for a mentor. It is a vitally important time in the life of the prospective teacher, so the teacher needs to carefully consider all aspects of being a mentor. Preparing for a student teacher to come into the classroom is somewhat like preparing for a new family member: everyone must…

This case study examines how three dual-language student teachers gain entry in their student-teaching experience. They confront the challenges of meeting the expectations of their cooperating teachers and field supervisors, become familiar with their students' academic strengths and weaknesses, and deliver effective classroom instruction. Each of…

The chapters in this book reflect the work of science and mathematics educators who have worked for many years at the international level. As members of the International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education, their work provides readers with issues, models, practices, and research results that have applicability and…

Using interviews, focus groups, and observations, I examined teacher candidates' experiences with their mentoring teachers over two student teaching periods. Using Feiman-Nemser and Rosaen's (1997) mentorship model of guiding teacher learning, I investigated the relational, conceptual, and contextual aspects of the student teaching experience.…

Research on teacher learning consistently documents the disjuncture between the practices beginning teachers encounter in university teacher preparation courses and those they reencounter in the K-12 classrooms in which they learn to teach. As preservice teachers enter teaching, they gravitate toward conventional K-12 practices, dismissing those…

The 56 directing teachers for the teacher training program, spring 1994 session, at the University of North Florida provided feedback on this preservice preparation program through a survey. The four-part questionnaire required them to evaluate the program, internship procedures, and materials, and their supervisory competencies through…

Data were collected from 307 senior level student teachers over 3 semesters in rural and urban placements and from 78 cooperating teachers on the qualities they considered most important for cooperating teachers. Cooperating teachers also offered information about skills and practices that work successfully in the student teaching relationship.…