Describes a teacher's experiences in working with student teachers. Notes that the experiences have been continually rewarding but not always easy. States that the teacher feels renewed, revitalized, and reassured after working with student teachers. (RS)

Focus groups and a mailed questionnaire obtained the opinions of 31 cooperating agricultural education teachers on the importance of core areas of student teaching. A well-rounded program emphasizing instruction, supervised agricultural experience, and youth leadership activities rated highest. Use of focus group/survey methods for such research…

Research on decision-making skills of teachers has indicated the importance of experience. Also, occupational culture has been found significantly related to teachers' thinking and behavior in the class. This study investigates in what aspects experienced teachers (cooperating teachers) and less experienced teachers) (student teachers) differ when…

This paper briefly describes and gives examples of how one teacher education program developed and has been successfully using a web based system to effectively and efficiently place student teachers, maintain records of placement information, communicate with schools, determine honoraria requests and obtain evaluation data from student teachers…

The field of early childhood education is growing tremendously, with states designing and implementing prekindergarten programs and universal preschool throughout the country. This is good news for families of young children as well as for the field. With the resulting increased demand for teachers, however, come serious implications for teacher…

The series of studies in this monograph examined the adoption of model-based instruction (MBI) as an innovative approach to teaching physical education. This innovation must be learned and used by preservice teachers, and then ultimately accepted by pupils in schools where student teachers plan for and implement MBI. Decisions by student teachers…

In this article we describe the MentorBlog project, which facilitated the mentoring of trainee teachers in the postcompulsory education sector through the use of blogs. In an experimental design, the study compared their experiences with students who received traditional mentoring. Blogs were used by the trainees to communicate with their mentors…

Article considered the place of the special child in the regular classroom and how the regular teacher and the special teacher can cooperate to assist the special child make the transition from special to regular education. (RK)

Described is a series of four approximately one-half hour color video cassettes, each focusing on distinct issues concerned with student teaching and capable of being used independently. Principal participants were five student teachers enrolled in teacher education programs in different areas of specialization, and five veteran classroom teachers…

The results of a survey of cooperating teachers indicate that they favor a certification requirement for supervisors of student teachers. Most believed that a teacher should have at least three years of teaching experience and demonstrated teaching competence before becoming eligible for training as a cooperating teacher. Aspects of certification…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of training in supervision on the performance of cooperating teachers and field supervisors. A one day workshop based upon a model of supervision developed by Boyan and Copeland (1978) was presented to 32 cooperating teachers and field supervisors. The four stages of the model included a…

The Teacher Assisting Program in NUSTEP has three major purposes: (a) blending theory and practice so that a prospective teacher can become acquainted with and instructed in a variety of important principles of learning and teaching and at the same time experience those same principles in learning/teaching situations; (b) providing prospective…

To measure the interpersonal perceptions of 121 student teachers and their college supervisors and cooperating teachers, seven forms of a self-perception inventory of 72 traits expressed as dichotomous pairs of a continuum were administered to all three groups after the students had completed their educational internship. The index scores were…

Measurement of the interpersonal perceptions of student teachers, college supervisors, and cooperating teachers in the pupil schools revealed that the interns' self-concepts were similar to their perceptions of how their college supervisors would rate them as prospective teachers but highly dissimilar to their perceptions of their cooperating…

This is an account of the development and evaluation of a strategy to train student teachers to create communications patterns with university supervisors and supervising teachers which would help them reach their objectives. The instructional plan provided a focus on interpersonal communications skills during five weekly, one-hour seminars, which…