This document takes issue with the concept of competency-based teacher education as presented in the New York Regents Master Plan for Development of Post-Secondary Education, 1972. It maintains that the competency-based concept completely undermines tenure and teacher rights to due process. Further, the paper takes the position that the teacher…

This article describes a training model in school psychology which utilizes a geographically separated internship and suggests using a concurrent externship'' in which supervision and field experience are closely tied to the university. (Author)

The Gary-Indiana-Moorhead State College Project (GIMSC) in Cooperative Urban Teacher Preparation comprised a mix of professional courses in education with field and clinical experiences in the inner city. This report describes various aspects of the program including travel allowance, tuition, and costs; housing and cooperating schools; rationale…

The Oklahoma City-Central State University Cooperative Program in Teacher Education is designed to provide student teachers preparing for middle school careers with a more realistic opportunity to integrate educational theories of learning and behavior with day-to-day public school experiences. A maximum of 25 students spend a full semester in an…

Arguing that new concepts and new structures are necessary to overcome academic inertia, the author suggests that, for the small college especially, the interim term may serve to trigger a wide range of innovative activity. (Editor)

This plan for teacher education centers is based on three conceptual levels: psychological, organizational, and structural. (MJM)

The internship program in school psychology in Ohio involves the close and continuing cooperation of the Ohio Department of Education, Ohio Inter-University Council on School Psychology, and field supervisors employed by local school districts. The roles of each are briefly discussed. (Author)

Books, monographs, articles, manuals, pamphlets, films, projects, and institutions that are helpful resources for field experience programs are listed and briefly described. (Editor/PG)

A student's perspective of graduate level training in evaluation is presented. The primary focus is on the training of evaluators. A secondary focus is on the training of users of evaluation. The position presented in this paper is that (1) evaluation is a higher order skill comprised of many individual skills and skill sets or processes, (2) the…

A survey of public elementary and secondary school environmental programs and project curricula was conducted by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. From the information received, this directory was compiled, the purpose being to facilitate the establishment of a national communication and information delivery system among operational…

A major goal of the Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Student Intern Project is to establish a means for providing high quality service-learning experiences for as many college and university students as possible. The SREB project staff administered service-learning internships for students across the region until 1968 when it became…

In 1969 Eastern New Mexico University's College of Education developed a program of one-semester internships at a variety of state facilities including mental institutions, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals. Coupled with the internships, one-week institutes were designed for students wanting some exposure to the facility but not wanting to…

The Inner City Teacher Education Program (ITEP), designed by the University of Northern Colorado, emphasizes the preparation of prospective teachers for working in urban schools whose populations are composed of children from culturally diverse backgrounds. Objectives were developed in relation to three categories: a) the prospective teacher's…