Research about student attitudes toward preservice teaching experience focused on two primary questions: (1) What do undergraduate education students expect from early field experiences? and (2) What underlying construct can be inferred from these expectations which may be useful in shaping future experiences? Two types of data were collected from…

Behavioral psychology studies were reviewed in an examination of the relationship between individual concept levels and teaching behaviors. It was observed that high concept level student teachers helped their students evaluate information and formulate hypotheses more frequently than did low concept level student teachers. It was also found that…

Eight hundred twenty-nine health or physical education cooperating teachers in south central Texas were evaluated by their student teachers after they had completed their student teaching and returned to campus. Individual rating charts listed 14 teacher characteristics and provided for the responses: "excellent,""adequate,""poor," and "unknown."…

This paper describes ethnographic research designed to discover whether the establishment of formal partnerships would ease traditional conflicts within the student teaching triad. In 1984, Brigham Young University (Utah) and five neighboring school districts entered into a formal university-school partnership. One priority was to develop teacher…

Strategies for implementing changes that will improve the effectiveness of teacher education are discussed. These include: (1) redesigning curriculum by incorporating entrance and exit criteria and a performance-based emphasis, allowing for continuous assessment of the effectiveness of the curriculum and ensuring a more individualized and…

This study examined how grade level and gender affected student teachers' self-ratings and faculty and field supervisors' ratings of student teachers' performance. The sample consisted of 47 preservice students in a medium-size Texas university. The Texas Performance Evaluation Instrument was administered in the second semester, at the end of a…

Social studies student teachers were paired with a single cooperating teacher to determine whether peer interaction enhances professional development. Of the 10 students involved in the study, 6 were paired and 4 were assigned in the traditional manner, i.e., one student teacher with one cooperating teacher. Each paired student taught two classes…

This handbook is designed to explain the student teaching programs at Illinois State University by identifying and defining the roles and responsibilities of those involved in the programs. Objectives for the student teaching programs are stated, and suggestions for evaluation are made. Chapter I discusses the purposes and objectives of student…

The Research Utilization in Elementary Teacher Education (RUETE) study developed techniques for better informing student teachers about current research on effective instruction and schools. Mills College in California was one of three schools of education participating in the study. This report explains and describes the research/intervention…

The Purdue Student Teacher Opinionnaire was administered to 142 student teachers in an attempt to measure differences in attitude between student teachers in different preparation programs, in different student teaching situatuions, and in different program situation interactions. The following factors were examined to determine whether attitudes…

It pays to make use of the special knowledge and talents of intern teachers. (JH)

This paper compares the stress of inservice teachers and preservice student teachers. The situation of student teachers is compared to that of cultural anthropologists in the field. This paradigm aids student teachers to objectify and to cope with the stresses and strains of their own fieldwork. The student teaching practicum is viewed as a type…

Based on the belief that effective teacher preparation programs exist only when cooperation between participating institutions is a reality, an instrument was designed to facilitate communication and to enable participants in a cooperative teacher education program to become more aware of their own values and attitudes toward specific issues which…

Focusing on various facets of the supervision of teachers in all capacities, this selected annotated bibliography was prepared for those cooperating teachers, student teachers, university supervisors, school supervisors, administrators, and other school personnel who wish to investigate in greater detail any number of aspects of the theory and…

The first three years of a decade of teacher education programs in Oregon are compared to the last three years, revealing distinct differences between characteristics in the eras 1967-69 and 1975-77. The following characteristics were chosen for analysis: (1) legislative climate; (2) student enrollments; (3) cooperating public school personnel;…