Each confidential statement about a student teacher by his teacher supervisors should be written with one goal in mind, that of offering a candid assessment of a teacher candidate who is being considered for employment by a hiring official. Amidst the current trend toward pass/fail courses, these statements assume an even higher importance. There…

Examples of personality types of supervising teachers and student teachers are described. Conflicts arising out of these clashes are illustrated and used to point up the need for personality matching in the selection of student teachers for student teaching programs. Some personality types listed are energetic and creative supervisors, meek…

This project attempted to design an experimental model for a teacher education program in the College of Education of the University of Alabama. The model attempted to identify students' concerns and problems and to test a novel approach for personalizing their programs through the inclusion of microteaching. Three distinct stages were included.…

The problem under investigation is the testing of the value of the student teacher-cooperating teacher relationship in promoting student teacher behavioral gains and the values of careful selection of cooperating teachers. The procedure used for the sorting on the major independent variable--cooperating teacher effectiveness--was to interview the…

This study was designed to determine if the attitudes of cooperating teachers toward another race are changed by their experiences with student teachers of the opposite race. Two rating scales were devised to measure the attitudinal responses of cooperating teachers to items of bias. A control group of 33 black teachers and 32 white teachers who…

This study failed to support earlier findings that jargon as a behavioral cue and assigned prestige as an external cue can be manipulated to affect perceived helper expertness. Several interpretations are drawn from the lack of hypothesized effect in the present study. (Author)

This study of rural-teacher preparation in State normal schools is made for several purposes: (1) To make available as nearly as could be learned by the means at hand the actual facts of the situation in 1917 as a point of departure for later studies of this significant evolution in educational effort; (2) To afford a source to which boards of…

Describes program at Indiana University at South Bend. (RT)

Discusses specific ways that student teachers can make the experience a rewarding one. Suggestions include observation of cooperating teachers, familiarity with students, development of confidence in the subject area, adequate record keeping, awareness of school rules, and recognition of individual differences. (JOW)

Thirty-five secondary school teachers who had been assigned a student teacher were surveyed before and after the experience to compare how much time they anticipated spending in supervision to the time they actually spent. (JW)

Presented are the results of a survey of 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico pertaining to standards or legal requirements for the certification of cooperating teachers. (CJ)