Self-study is defined as participant study of practice, and it has often been questioned as a form of research. Whether self-study can be valid when generalized or whether it merely represents personal reflections was explored in a case study. During a year as a teacher of secondary students, the researcher/participants kept a journal as part of a…

Noting that teacher educators should help preservice teachers not just to see play but also to participate in the realm of play, this paper presents three short case-vignettes illustrating the challenges to facilitating deep, differentiated play in typical classroom and school settings. The first vignette illustrates how seldom a first-grade…

A study considered the beliefs and practices of three preservice content area teachers about the required content area reading course and its relationship to their field experiences. The three preservice teachers, all older, nontraditional students with previous career experiences, averaged eight dialogue journal entries during their…

A University of Oklahoma program for the development of cooperating teachers is designed to screen, prepare, and select classroom teachers, who receive a university adjunct instructor appointment as cooperating teachers, to serve student teachers in the elementary school program. The initial screening to identify classroom teachers who are…

Hunter College (of the City University of New York) TTT program developed a field-based Teacher Education Program. The Harlem and the New York Public Schools constitute the learning environment where education professors, undergraduates, and cooperating teachers explore teaching approaches, needs and ideas. (Author/EJT)

The purpose of this study was to train cooperating teachers in a Behavioral Model of Supervision (BMS-PE). Four cooperating teachers in suburban school districts in central Ohio were trained using this model that emphasized communicating feedback with more details and holding teachers more accountable for their performances during post-teaching…

This study examined the effectiveness of audiocuing as a method for training a student teacher in the skill of providing positive reinforcement to students. (Audiocuing is the pre-recorded auditory cue provided by a microcassette recording which only the subject can hear.) In the event that it is necessary for the student teacher to make…

This handbook for a one-semester student teaching practicum opens with role descriptions for the school principal, the college supervisor, the cooperating teacher, and the student teacher. The handbook covers the following elements in the practicum: (1) school preparation for the student teacher; (2) suggested schedule for observation and…

This article focuses on the interactive relationship necessary between the university supervisor, the cooperating teacher in the public schools, and the student teacher in order for the student teaching practicum experience to succeed. This paper deals exclusively with the importance of the cooperating teacher in this partnership arrangement.…

A pilot program, the Professional Growth Experience (PGE), was designed and implemented by teacher educators from three Wisconsin teacher education programs to improve the guidance skills of cooperating teachers during their actual supervision of student teachers. Each PGE seminar enrolls no more than 10 currently engaged cooperating teachers and…

This study sought to determine how student teachers perceived their cooperating teacher's leadership practices. The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire Form was completed during the final week of clinical field experience by 212 student teachers. The questionnaire was based on four identified leadership styles used by mentors: (1)…

This study sought to determine the ranked importance of the teaching tasks to be demonstrated by physical education student teachers as perceived by cooperating teachers and supervisors. The study was designed specifically to detect the nature of the tasks ranked highly by each group. Questionnaires were sent to 91 cooperating teachers and 30…

This handbook is part of a series of guides developed for use with the Teacher Education Internship Project at the University of North Florida. This guide is written for directing teachers who work with the teacher interns during the practice teaching experience. Sections of the handbook discuss: (1) the clinical supervision model used by the…

This study sought to establish the degree of uniformity that exists between the university supervisor and the cooperating teacher, and between each of those and the student teacher, as each of the three pairs evaluates the student's performance according to common criteria. Participants in the study were 81 student teachers, their cooperating…

Two areas of school-university collaboration in the University of New Hampshire 5-year program of teacher education are collaborative research and collaborative supervision. This paper discusses how teachers, school administrators, and university faculty work together on research and supervision issues in teacher education. In considering issues…