The overall concerns of program design of field experience programs are dealt with, including funding, academic credit, and program administration. (Editor/PG)

Teacher education is a stepchild--unwanted by colleges, permissively accepted by schools, allowed in any and all forms by state departments of education, tolerated by the profession. Attempts to reform teacher education have failed to recognize that the social institutions in which teacher education is embedded (schools, colleges, and state…

The paper reviews the organizational problems associated with developing an interdisciplinary educational experience for health science students. Basic issues commented on include objectives, administrative responsibility, program content control, faculty input, structure and location of activities, types and levels of students, participation…

The off-campus term program (OCT) of the University of South Florida is described. The OCT represents a model of centralized, comprehensive experiential education. The methods and systems used are described as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the OCT centralized model. (Author/SF)

The development and implementation of a clinic to offer advanced study in business organizations and commercial law transactions for third-year law students at Wayne State University (Michigan) are described. The course builds vertically on prior study and puts students in contact with practicing lawyers in an academic setting. Considerations…

A report is given of an evaluation of a consortium comprised of two suburban school districts, their respective professional teacher associations, and the University of Washington College of Education. This teacher education program is performance-based and field-oriented. The program, its rationale and development, are described, and actively…

Additional perspective on the program proposals developed by members of the Committee for National Program Priorities in Teacher Education was provided by a group of external reviewers representing community groups, school administrators and teachers, critics of teacher education, associations for professional groups in education, and university…

A program developed at Illinois State University for coordinating internships and other credit-generating field experiences is described. The work experiences are planned, administered, and supervised at the department level and coordinated through a university-wide central office. (Author/SF)

In order to determine the most effective method of administering the cooperative education program at the College of the Mainland (COM) in Texas, the author surveyed community colleges supporting cooperative education under a Title IV grant, conducted interviews of COM faculty and staff, reviewed the literature, and reexamined COM's formal and…

An organizational model for developing partnerships between universities and community agencies for delivery of social work field instruction at new sites is described. Application of the four main components (outreach, partnership, direction planning, change) is demonstrated in three case studies. The partnerships facilitate field opportunities…

The Tennessee Technological University Rural Education Research and Service Consortium (RERSC) was established in 1984 to facilitate research and service activities of the College of Education faculty in selected rural schools, to provide assistance to faculty desiring to engage in such research and service, and to launch a major research thrust…

Materials collected in this book and in Volume I (SP 003 238) are related to the Multi-State Teacher Education Project (M-STEP). They deal with program experiments and resulting directions, including guide-line type materials resulting from the project effort and items prepared by other sources as project-centered aids. Part I, "A Forward…

The Tennessee Technological University Rural Education Research and Service Consortium (RERSC) was founded in 1984 to facilitate research and service activities of the College of Education faculty in selected rural schools, provide assistance to faculty desiring to engage in such research/service, and launch a major research thrust consistent with…

This report on the status of undergraduate programs in environmental science (ES) comprises information from 76 of 262 institutions that offer a bachelors degree in ES. The following areas are discussed (1) administrative arrangements, (2) curriculum requirements, (3) enrollments, and (4) directors' perceptions of the problems and positive aspects…

In addition to opening remarks and a presentation on graduate education as a national resource, presentations are included on: the uses and limitations of dimensions of quality study; assessment of quality in master's degree programs; the graduate school in the university administration structure; creativity in graduate education; the uses of…