Describes the purpose and operation of the Illinois State University Urban Education Program, an innovative, community-based program designed for teacher trainees planning to teach in urban secondary schools. Some student reactions are included. (Author/SF)

As a culminating experience of student teaching, a three-day debriefing seminar follows the final week of field experience. It affords opportunities for both a sharing of professional concerns and a program of human relations training for home economics teacher education candidates. (LRA)

It has been found that student teacher attitudes toward pupil control change from relatively humanistic to relatively custodial during their student teaching experience. The objective of this investigation was to evaluate the use of T-groups as an intervention for modifying teacher attitudes toward classroom control. An underlying assumption of…

This study was designed to determine whether student teachers receiving human relations training along with their student teaching experience would show any changes in their self-concepts and to see if these changes were significantly different from those of student teachers involved in the student teaching experience only. A 30-hour,…

Human relations training is a requirement for all teacher education majors graduating from Iowa colleges and universities. At the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) this course is delivered to preservice teacher education students in conjunction with their full semester student teaching experience. Major goals of the training program are: (1) to…