Outlines findings of a survey of teaching practice and teaching practice supervision in England and Wales. The survey identified a variety of approaches adopted regarding teaching practice supervision and attempted to evaluate the effectiveness of existing arrangements. (JOW)

An innovative 30-hour internship seminar has become a core part of the University of Regina's teacher preparation program. It successfully provides experiences to help cooperating teachers and interns: (1) build interpersonal relationships, (2) increase interns' professional growth, and (3) learn and practice supervisory processes. (JD)

Student teachers tend to stress those skills most emphasized in the teaching techniques of their cooperating teachers in their own subsequent teaching methods. (LH)

To help you become the best possible cooperating teacher, a director of elementary student teaching, has compiled some basic fundamentals for your use. Mix and match her suggestions with your own ideas, and you and your student teacher will have a rewarding and successful experience. (Editor)

Guidelines are provided for developing educational programs for cooperating teachers, or other teachers who work with beginning teachers. The guidelines have eight essential components which can be categorized as procedural, substantive, or knowledge components. (IAH)

Shows, through examples from the practicum experience of preservice teachers, the pivotal role that teachers' narrative knowledge plays in how curriculum is lived in classrooms. Preservice teachers negotiated their own curriculum narratives within those of cooperating teachers. (SLD)

This paper analyses data from two sources of stakeholder feedback--first year pre-service teachers and supervising teachers/centre directors--about the issues involved in creating more collaborative approaches to the first year early childhood teacher education practicum at an Australian regional university. The collection of this feedback was…

The purpose of this chapter is to advance the concept of pedagogical content knowledge in a manner that would better align it with the integrative type of knowledge needed by teachers at all three stages (preservice teachers, induction teachers, and cooperating teachers), allowing them to use model-based instruction (MBI) most effectively in…

This study investigated student teachers' efficacy beliefs, collective teacher efficacy beliefs, and perceived cooperating teachers' efficacy beliefs. These student teacher beliefs were examined with the focus on context, primarily the school setting (i.e., rural, suburban, and urban), to determine whether setting played a role in the development…

This research is an examination of the interactions between 19 pairs of student teachers and cooperating teachers engaged in guided reading instruction in Grades 1 through 3. As the basis for the study, the authors analyzed interaction patterns through conducting content analysis (Van Sluys, Lewison, & Seely Flint, 2006) and discourse analysis…

Virtual schooling, or the practice of offering K-12 courses via distance technologies, has rapidly increased in popularity since its beginning in 1994. Although effective interaction with and support for students in these environments requires a unique set of skills and experiences, teacher education programs rarely include teaching and…

This guide is designed both to explain the Drake University Teacher Aide Program to teachers cooperating with the program, and to provide the aide with practical and effective ways of providing service to the cooperating teacher. Two college courses make up this program: one for elementary education majors, and one for secondary education majors.…

This study investigated the extent of the relationship between the classroom verbal behavior of the cooperating teacher and that of the student teacher to determine if the student teacher imitated the verbal classroom behavior of the cooperating teacher. Thirty-two student teachers and 32 cooperating public secondary school teachers participating…

In an attempt to investigate attitudinal dimensions of beginning elementary student teachers, beginning secondary student teachers, and supervising teachers, and to discover if these groups vary a great deal in the meaning they attribute to certain educational concepts, a series of 12 teacher judgment differential scales concerned with moral,…