This article discusses difficulties faced in field experience programs and describes a process for instructing cooperating teachers in strategies to work better with university students. Cooperating teacher seminars discuss such issues as cooperating teachers' concerns, field experiences, student teaching, coaching, feedback strategies, and…

A study of 61 preservice teachers in K-6 classrooms investigated the subjects' overall attitude toward mainstreaming, their confidence in their ability to work with handicapped children, and their attitude toward the role of the regular teacher in special education evaluation and placement. (MT)

This study examined the attitudes, knowledge bases, and practices of 20 cooperating teachers and 20 student teachers regarding evaluation of pupil progress. Teachers often wrestled with balancing district demands for grading with pupil needs for affirmation and guidance. The complexity of the process and implications for teacher educators are…

Cooperating teachers were observed to find out what motivated them to serve as essentially uncompensated volunteers. This study found that, aside from financial rewards, incentives included status recognition and input and control in the teacher education process. Results are presented. (DF)

Shares some of the comments made by the participating cooperating teachers as they responded to a general inquiry as to how to be a successful cooperating teacher in dealing with student teachers. Comments are presented under the following categories: infusion, beginning the teaching process, communications, motivation and discipline, and other…

A model for partnerships in teacher education between schools and universities should have four key elements for success. They are: timeliness, mutuality, trust, and results. These elements are discussed and examples given. The role of conflict as an opportunity for positive change is stressed. (MT)

The Triangle Alliance for Improvement in the Preparation of Teachers and Other Certified Personnel, is an organization of institutions of higher education and local education agencies in the North Carolina Research Triangle area. Institutes for cooperating teachers planned by the Alliance are described. (MT)

This study evaluated the adequacy of a Likert-type scale cooperating teacher report. Results demonstrated a significant presence of leniency error and halo effect, leaving highly questionable the validity of the report as a whole. Findings are discussed. (Author/MT)

Discusses the use of a supervision model in which a contract is made between the student teacher and the supervisor and a prearranged format is used to analyze the student's performance. Lists the teaching skills to be considered in constructing a contract and presents a sample contract. (SED)

A new type of student-teacher supervision, the tutor-supervisor concept, has been initiated at Murdoch University in Australia. (SK)

Instructors at Cleveland State University have designed an activity that moves prospective supervisor teachers through the steps of a particular model simulation to develop needed skills. (SK)

This paper follows a student teacher through a typical day in her high school student teaching placement, beginning with her pre-dawn departure for school, and moving from her preparations for class to her classes, which begin at 7:15 a.m. (homeroom, several periods of biology, lunch, planning, more biology, and biochemistry). She focuses on her…

This paper describes research that is part of an effort to understand the transition made when teacher education students leave university programs and enter the workforce. The emphasis in this study was on the alignment between the pre-service teacher's university preparation and the actual work of student teaching. The theoretical framework for…

Article investigated what really constitutes an effective cooperating teacher and what student teachers recognize as a good experience. (Editor/RK)

Article gives suggestions for establishing a paraprofessional teacher aide program. (GB)