Results of this study provide empirical support for the inclusion of early field experiences in teacher preparation programs. While the effects of early field experiences in subsequent course achievement are modest, these effects are substantially greater than those reported for field experiences in conjunction with course work. (FG)

Two curriculum development strategies for preservice teachers' field-based experiences are analyzed. It is argued that a "personalized" approach to field-based experiences is misguided, and an "inquiry-oriented" approach is presented as more justifiable. (CJ)

Surveyed field experiences in school psychology programs at the doctoral and nondoctoral levels. Three program levels (Masters, Advanced Graduate Status, and Doctoral) were compared on the field-based component of training. Programs at all levels introduced field experiences the first year and continued to offer them throughout training.…

In Tulsa (Oklahoma), junior high school students had the opportunity, as apprentices to film director Francis Ford Coppola, to be involved in activities that enlarged their direct experience rather than in intense intellectual pursuits. Such activities are characterized by brain-growth experts as appropriate for this age group. (Author/MLF)

Four principles for arranging successful field experiences in health are: (1) Organize the experience as a partnership involving the student, faculty member, and health practitioner; (2) Require regular feedback from students; (3) Provide the student with input from the health practitioner; and (4) Observe and evaluate the students in the field.…

Discusses the resurgence of interest in preprofessional library experience as part of the library science curriculum as reported in a longitudinal survey of graduate library schools, and describes types of fieldwork available, number of students who participate, prerequisites and objectives for participants, and administrative policies. Four…

Describes a mathematics content course in which observations are made by preservice elementary school teachers of actual classroom teachers. This course emphasizes these aspects of teacher education: attitudes towards mathematics, achievement and understanding of content, expectation levels of prospective teachers, and understanding of elementary…

Experience with materials developed by the Mathematics Teacher Education Project has shown that these resources of teaching methods and suggestions can be used to assist student teachers in their first field experience and in the final term as a means to coalesce and focus on specific teaching strategies. (FG)

Compared are elementary teacher methods courses differing in the amount of field experience with specific teaching behaviors involving the ability to teach activity-oriented or experiential science. Results include the finding that field experience effects a major difference in the ability to model specific teaching behaviors. (CS)

The need to prepare social work administrators for the field is now recognized. Problems pertaining to the development of administration placements are identified and special arrangements are suggested that require a departure from traditional field instruction models and school-agency relationships. (Author/MLW)

Perceptions of 72 elementary teachers supervising in a competency-based teacher-education program were compared with the perceptions of 54 elementary teachers supervising in a field-based program. Significant differences were found between the two groups on cooperative program planning and interns' influence on classroom teachers' instructional…

A teaching-learning model using videotaped segments along with instructional modules to teach students the knowledge, values, and skills necessary to function effectively in a health-related clinic setting is described. The intent is to facilitate absorption of biomedical content to assist students to function as members of interdisciplinary…

An undergraduate social work program at Gallaudet College, initiated to increase professional opportunities for deaf students and to provide deaf people with social services, is described. The needs of both student and client groups are discussed, with emphasis on teaching techniques and skills required to serve the deaf population. (Author/MLW)

Discusses instructional innovations in science education, including interdisciplinary environmental studies programs, autotutorial open laboratory techniques, and programed research projects provided in investigative laboratory settings. Describes applications of these innovations at community colleges, as well as the increased use of modular,…

A survey of graduates of the teacher education program at the University of Northern Iowa is summarized. Among topic areas surveyed were respondents' competencies as beginning teachers, problems encountered when beginning to teach, opinions of major problems in public schools, and evaluation of student teaching experiences. (JMF)