THE TRAINING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS HAS FAILED TO KEEP PACE WITH THE CHANGE FROM TRADITIONAL TO MODERN METHODS OF LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE SCHOOLS. TO MAKE COLLEGE PROFESSORS AWARE OF THE QUALIFICATIONS NOW NECESSARY FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND THE NEED TO REDESIGN COLLEGE PROGRAMS, ATTENTION HAS BEEN CALLED TO THE RECENT PROGRESS THE…

TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE PRACTICUM EXPERIENCE (STUDENT TEACHING OR INTERNSHIP) IN TEACHER EDUCATION THROUGH ITS INTEGRATION INTO THE TOTAL PROGRAM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHLY COMPETENT SUPERVISING TEACHERS, THE FOLLOWING STEPS ARE PROPOSED--(1) JOINT COLLEGE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL RESPONSIBILITIES SHOULD BE ASSUMED BY A "CLINICAL…

Student teaching may be defined as a complex intermingling of roles and institutions. Few, however, would dispute that the core of student teaching is that unique relationship which occurs between two persons--the student teacher and the cooperating teacher. This relationship may be explored by examining two alternative models for matching student…

These guidelines, designed for use by cooperating public school teachers in student teaching programs, contain the following five components: (1) general objectives for pre-student-teaching clinical experiences; (2) the roles and expectations of university students, university faculty and staff, and public school teachers in preservice clinical…

The development of a field-based teacher education program is described. Following a brief outline of the current status of the program and obligations to be met by the prospective teachers involved, the problems faced by the program implementors are discussed. The major problems were originally organizational and administrative. In the course of…

AS A RESULT OF THE SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE IN FOUR PILOT SCHOOLS, IN WHICH APPROXIMATELY 350 AIDES WERE EMPLOYED WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF PRE-SERVICE ORIENTATION OR TRAINING, A GRANT WAS SOUGHT AND ATTAINED FROM THE U.S. OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR A PILOT PROJECT TO TRAIN TEACHER-AIDES. FORTY AIDES AND FORTY TEACHERS WERE SELECTED FROM FOUR…

In the belief that teacher education can be strengthened by making it possible for the student to have more actual contact with school children than is usually afforded, an experiment is being conducted at Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C., through the cooperation of the elementary laboratory school and the college of education. Eight…

This manual was written for cooperating teachers who plan to participate in the training of student teachers in foreign languages. It begins with a short questionnaire to be filled out by the cooperating teacher, designed to help the teacher decide how he or she actually feels about working with a student teacher. In the next section of the guide,…

This initial systematic management design for Teacher Corps, Cycle V, at the University of Southern California's School of Education covers the entire two years of the program. The document contains objectives stated in measurable terms, graphic representations of activities (flow charts and time sequence charts), key decision points to attain the…

This second of a series of evaluation reports of the Cooperative Urban Teacher Education (CUTE) program covers 1968-69 and replicates portions of the 1967-68 evaluation, assesses the effects of the program, and provides recommendations to the program directors. Data were collected in Kansas City, Mo., Oklahoma City, Okla., and Wichita, Kansas,…

This project, coordinated by the Center for Innovation in Teacher Education, Indiana University, aims to improve the performance of methods instructors and teachers who supervise student teachers, to train teaching associates as methods instructors, to increase the training skills of advanced graduate students, and to increase the interdependence…

This document is a summary of two years of activity of the Maine Teacher Corps presented in outline form. Throughout, several questions are asked (What was done? What was learned? What was expected? What was found?) followed by recommendations for other programs. Section I is an introductory essay entitled, "Maine Teacher Corps, A Viable…

This paper outlines the procedures used at the University of Cincinnati for establishing a field based elementary teacher education program in the form of a field guide. The first step involves a meeting with university faculty to discuss the implications of such a program. Step two involves meeting with the elementary school principal and selling…

Description of an Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) workshop aimed at giving a new, more positive direction to the preparation and supervision of student teachers. (HD)

A discussion of some of the problems teacher supervisors face includes a description of some of the coping strategy skills they employ (staging, screening, signaling, and systems) and suggests that the problems supervisors typically face must be considered when assigning personnel to field supervision or preparing supervisors. (CB)