Since the teaching force for the 1970s will be predominantly stable, the need of teacher education for the future is not preservice education but inservice. The primary responsibility for inservice education is with public school educators. But this is in no way a disclaimer that other agencies have responsibility. Traditional methods, such as a…

In this study 65 preservice physical education teachers were randomly assigned to a variable, semi-variable, and non-variable field experience group. All subjects completed observational, instructional, and student teaching field experiences. The variable group completed experiences in urban and suburban schools at different educational levels.…

Public service internships not only provide a means for college students to help government get its job done, they also teach the student a good deal about the real world of urban affairs. This report covers the Urban Corps approach to providing a college student internship program in local government. Such a program is based on 3 principles: (1)…

This report represents the work of a student or students in the New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE) Student Internship in Economic Development (SIED) program. The objective of this program is to relate the resources of institutions of higher education to economic development organizations in such a way as to: (1) assist economic…

This paper is the result of a limited analysis of the WICHE internship program directed by the Urban Studies Center at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. The methodology used for analyzing the internship program was carried out primarily through the use of 2 questionnaires. One was used for the interns and the other for…

During 1971, Carl Goebel prepared for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) a report entitled "Evaluation of the WICHE Intern Program in the State of Oregon." In this evaluation he pointed out a number of the deficiencies, as well as the strengths of the program. In concluding, Goebel made a number of suggestions…

This handbook for student teachers and teacher education center faculty members explains the purposes of field experiences in the teacher education program of Southwest Minnesota State College (SMSC), outlines suggested behaviors for the people directly involved in the program, and answers some common questions. Some general information concerning…

This document contains proceedings of the conference attended by 286 participants including public school personnel, those from teacher preparation institutions, and other educators. There are four main sections, one for each topic discussed. Main speeches are presented in full: "Preparation of Teachers for the Inner City" by Robert T. Wheeler;…

The Florida Parent Education Follow Through Model (See ED 028 140 and ED 028 139) has fostered institutional change at the University of Florida in two ways: professors and making use of increased knowledge and understanding of the disadvantaged in their instructional content and format and the University has developed and had approved a 2-year…

This interdisciplinary secondary school teacher education program which involves no course work in the ordinary sense evolved from an effort to move the emphasis in the teacher education program from abstractions and general principles to specific problems in the various subject curriculums. Its objective is to promote early behavior change in the…

This paper reports the last phase of planning and development for the Experimental Pilot Program in Teacher Education (EPPTE) which begins in September 1969 as an effort to find an effective alternative to the conventional model for training teachers. Activities of the project staff are described in the areas of (1) Publicity, including response…

This paper defines field-based teacher education and offers some generalizations concerning field-based teacher education programs. Field-based teacher education is defined as an on-site teacher education center in a school or group of schools that may be used for observing, practicing methodology, and learning and practicing methods on-site the…

This followup study investigates the effects of a teacher center program on North Texas State University elementary education graduates after one year of teaching. Subjects were 55 teachers in inner-city schools and middle-class schools. Three instruments, the Directed Imagination Test, One Word Sentence Completion Test, and the Self Report…

The Crestwood Community-Based Learning Experiences Project was undertaken to test the feasibility of conducting an out-of-school learning program and to determine the cost of establishing such a program. For 3 months, 6 teachers and 206 fifth-grade children participated in a total of 20 field experiences which were implemented at three levels: a)…

Project Merge is a cooperative, field-based in-service and preservice teacher education program; it is a systematic field based, cooperative approach to teacher education, instruction, and curriculum development. The project has been field validated and is competency based. It has three interrelated phases: a) an in-service program which affects…