Twelve cooperating teachers rated superior by their peers, administrators, and university supervisors were asked to study current literature and reflect and decide upon what makes them so effective in being highly successful with student teachers. These teachers divided the qualities of superior cooperating teachers into two categories: qualities…

Discusses recommendations relating to teacher education set forth in the James Report and the White Paper "Education: A Framework for Expansion" and, in particular, outlines the structure of the proposed "induction year" in which probationary teachers gain experience in the schools. (JR)

The purpose of this study was to analyze three roles related to student teaching: elementary school student teachers, supervising teachers, and university supervisors. Analysis served two purposes: (1) to identify role perceptions of each of the three groups; and (2) to determine whether significant differences exist in the perceived roles, as…

A program with the major goal of achieving effective collaboration between public school personnel and university personnel in the preparation of physical education teachers is described. This program consists of two segments--a block of courses carrying semester credit hours and a student teaching supervision option. University personnel work…

The document focuses on the impact of the cooperating teacher on the attitudes and behavior of the student special education teacher. The need for reform in teacher education which would produce more field based teacher training experience earlier is pointed out, and components of the Millersville State College (PA) undergraduate special education…

This study was an initial step to determine the feasibility of matching student teachers (ST's) with cooperating teachers (CT's) on the basis of similar educational beliefs. This project grew out of the concern of Oklahoma State University student teaching supervisors that the mismatching of ST's with CT's on the basis of dissimilar perceptions…

Ninety-three documents published between 1960 and 1969 are identified in this annotated bibliography dealing with school-college relations in developing school personnel. The major portion of documents included present information on school-college cooperative programs while other documents, divided into subject areas, cover student teaching,…

The Detroit Public Schools-Wayne State University Elementary Team Internship Pilot Program was developed to provide an internship (after the student teaching experience) permitting elementary education students to assume the role of teacher. The team internship unit consisted of four interns, two assigned to each of two proximate classrooms; one…

This report is one of a series produced by the Science Education Center, University of Iowa. The series is designed to communicate results of research, developmental projects, and philosophical investigation to science educators. This particular report reviews the literature concerned with student teaching, with particular emphasis on the current…

This study was conducted to provide data as a basis for deriving school-based teacher educator competencies. The task analysis approach, using data derived from interviews, was selected as the basis of the study and as one of several methods for identifying competencies of the school-based teacher educator. The interviews were designed to reflect…

This study attempts to identify the opinions of social studies cooperating teachers toward student teacher placement, role relationships, evaluation, and inservice education. The hypothesis for this study was that northeast Missouri social studies cooperating teachers' opinions toward student teacher placement and evaluation would indicate that…

Four factors which affect the status of African Studies in the southeastern United States are: (1) the largeness of the South as a geographical area, (2) lack of concentrations of African-oriented scholars in the region, (3) the relatively new addition of African Studies to southern university curriculums, and (4) the frequent involvement in…

The Student Utah Education Association has prepared a set of 21 recommendations for improvement of teacher education at both university and public school levels, with brief notes on the rationale behind each and the action which should be taken. Those relating to teacher education institutions include: the establishment of student-faculty or…

A pilot inservice training program for supervising (cooperating) teachers was planned in which traditional roles were modified. It was theorized that decentralization of the responsibility for supervision of student teaching would allow better utilization of the college supervisor's training and time, opportunity for inservice growth and increased…