Examined cooperating classroom teachers' perspectives regarding the professional block of a secondary education program. Data collection involved surveys assessing their perceptions of the importance of the program's standards and interviews regarding program strengths and weaknesses and college-school collaboration. Results indicated that…

Survey data from 225 student teachers, 45 coordinators, and 130 tutors at Leicester University (England) revealed how Individual Action Planning helped solve logistical and instructional problems. Its effective use depended on the relationship between tutors and student teachers. (SK)

Agricultural student teachers (n=36) rated core elements of their field experience. They recognized the importance of relationships with cooperating teachers before and after the experience. Supervised agricultural experience was the only area rated lower after field experience. (Contains 23 references.) (SK)

Responses from 82 of 92 agricultural teachers in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Florida who had served as cooperating teachers generally agreed with university expectations for student teachers. However, 17 percent did not fully understand what was expected of them as cooperating teachers, and over 40 percent did not think they should observe…

Describes a supervised teaching practice which is proposed as a cost-effective integrated approach to linking the support and development of teachers with quality assurance. (Author/YDS)

The dominant models of initial teacher preparation have relied primarily on a school-based practicum where a single student is placed with a single "cooperating teacher" or "mentor". This paper reports on a number of research projects of teacher preparation at the secondary level suggesting that placing student teachers in subject pairs can be…

The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between teaching efficacy and personality type of agricultural science cooperating teachers. The target population was agricultural science teachers who served as cooperating teachers. A convenience sample of those teachers who attended an optional cooperating teacher meeting at…

A university professor observes the use of a Native American stereotype by a cooperating teacher in an elementary art classroom while supervising a preservice teacher. She identifies ways that the teacher's words potentially harmed her students and reflects on her own role. This "teachable moment" is described, and characteristics of…

The author identifies eight areas of concern common to student teachers and suggests ways the cooperating teacher can assist in their mastery. (AG)

The University of Washington's Teacher Incentives Project (TIPS) investigated the effects of training and incentives on experienced elementary and secondary teachers. All participants were teachers who had experience working with student teachers in their classrooms. Asked to name the type of inservice they would like to receive, the teachers…

This investigation related Jungian personality types of student and cooperating teachers to their attitudes and student teacher evaluations. A random sample of 124 pairs of student teachers and cooperating teachers was used. Each participant was administered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory…

A questionnaire is presented to be used in the evaluation of cooperating teachers by the students whose field-based preservice teaching they are supervising. The questionnaire has been designed to fill a gap in the evaluation of student teaching experiences: too often the cooperating teacher has been unevaluated or has received merely informal…

The role of the cooperating teacher is one of the most crucial factors in determining the success or failure of the student teaching experience. There are seven major factors to be considered in the development of an effective cooperating teacher-student professional relationship. First, the student teacher must be given a sincere sense of…

This filmstrip-audiotape package on student teacher supervision has two versions--a teacher version and a student version. The same filmstrip is used for each version with a different narration. The package also includes a written script for each version. The teacher version of the narration points out the need for flexibility in supervising…

The most important feature of this 2-year elementary teacher education program, begun in 1966, is the earlier and more direct exposure it offers to inner-city education. To take place before student teaching, it provides for 2 days per week to be spent at one of 12 local cooperating elementary schools, studying teaching methods in specific…