This paper describes the findings of a study of general and special educators' perceptions of co-teaching in elementary and middle school classrooms. A total of 85 students, 20 general education, and 11 special education teachers participated in this investigation in which student drawings were used as both data and as tools to spark teacher…

In this book, Kim E. Koeppen and Judith Davison-Jenkins document their journey in developing and implementing assessment tools designed to reinforce and encourage teacher dispositions that support effective teaching and learning. This book--which contains insights from a variety of teacher candidates and inservice teachers--will spark dialogue…

The Standards for Teachers of English Language and Literacy in Australia (STELLA) were developed and launched in 2001. In this article, the author aims to consider their relevance and value to practising and beginning English teachers. STELLA provides a lens through which the very complex job that English teachers do to prepare students for…

This study examined cooperating teachers' perceptions of how student teacher supervision is aligned with the standards of the National Staff Development Council (NSDC). The conceptual framework of this research advanced that serving as a cooperating teacher is equivalent to a professional development activity. The researcher adapted an instrument…

The purpose of this study was to explore the content of reflective dialogues between student teachers in music and their cooperating teachers, as well as to understand the effects of reflective dialogue on professional development. I was guided in this analysis of 49 transcriptions of interviews and reflective dialogues between student teachers…

The purpose of this study was to assess early childhood preservice teachers' caring dispositions. In this pilot project, 35 preservice teachers were involved. They spent 30 hours in the field. The tool for assessment--Caring Teachers' Components and Characteristics--was developed on the basis of the theory of caring per Noddings (1992) and…

The purpose of the study was to explore student teacher perceptions of the student teacher/cooperating teacher relationship throughout the student teaching experience. The target population of this study consisted of preservice agricultural education students at Texas A&M University. The accessible sample consisted of student teachers in…

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which cooperating agricultural education teachers used selected supervision models. The relationships between maturity characteristics of the cooperating teachers and their choices of a supervision model were also examined. Results showed that cooperating teachers commonly used clinical,…

Cooperating teachers are believed to have a tremendous influence on new teachers' beliefs and practices, but few researchers have systematically studied the mechanism through which cooperating teachers exercise their influence. This study is concerned with pedagogical interaction that occurs between intact pairs of cooperating and student…

This article examines the idea of mentoring and looks at the roles different individuals play in professional development within the preservice teacher education program. The major participants in the process are the preservice teacher, the college faculty members in the teacher education program who provide the foundational knowledge, and the…

This qualitative study explored the roles which exist between pre-service elementary teachers and the technology tools they integrate into their mathematics lesson plans. A total of 35 pre-service elementary teachers participated in this study in which the researcher examined their lesson plans and reflection documents. The project occurred during…

This document introduces types and examples of inservice education which concentrate on the special competencies expected of supervising teachers. Thirty-five supervising competencies are outlined and individually explained as they relate to classroom procedures, relationships with the student teacher, responsibility of the student teacher,…

This paper describes an inservice program at Lenoir Rhyne College that is designed to improve the professional quality of cooperating teachers, aid the college in continuing a program in formative evaluation with the goal of improving designs for professional laboratory experiences, and enrich the student teacher's insight into his own growth…

This study focused on the influences most effective in shaping the classroom behavior pattern of student teachers. College influences, particularly those emanating from education courses and supervisors, were compared with school influences, particularly those from cooperating teachers who work and guide teachers while they are serving as interns.…

The objective of the project described in this paper was to help six classroom teachers in an early childhood center develop skills and concepts needed as teacher trainers in a professional-year, modular, field-based program. Training skills were developed through participation in the preparation of modules, workshops, and analyses of video- and…