This article explores a university's Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) and its success not just in recruiting, preparing, retaining, and graduating its students, but in likewise leading to employment and retention as teachers in urban schools. It focuses on critical aspects of the program, including recruitment of diverse candidates,…

Discussed is Dakota State College's Experience Oriented Teacher Education Program designed to prepare prospective teachers through experience in addition to theory. This report describes the four major aspects of the program: participation in public school classrooms prior to student teaching, human relations training experience, field seminars,…

A description of the Field Experience Program at Emerson College is discussed. (MM)

Take 50 university education students who may not be quite sure they want to be teachers. Pour them all into a charter bus, and drive them five hours to a remote Texas Hill Country location. Mix in equal parts of enthusiasm and dedication, well-planned interdisciplinary curriculum, and face-to-face interaction with middle level students. Let…

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…

Schools of education must refine factual and theoretical information to the point where it is applicable to specific problems. (NQ)

Describes an intensive field experience program in one elementary school and compares student teacher and co-operating teacher ratings of student teacher performance. (AL)

Attempts, through conducting an internal and external assessment of a specific pre-service education program, to generate some concrete criteria that other university teacher education institutions might utilize in formulating a coherent and logical educational sequence. Results of the study indicate the need for a more field based teacher…

The introductory portion of this report defines teacher education centers and briefly describes their developmental continuum. A synthesis of documents concerning student teaching and teacher education centers is followed by a list of features differentiating conventional programs, student teaching centers, and teacher education centers.…

Describes the establishment, objectives, and services of Marquette University's Education Clinic, where students and professors in the School of Education provide psychological, educational, social, and behavioral assessment; remedial reading instruction; tutoring; counseling; behavior therapy; home visits and consultations; and in-service teacher…

The Program for Alternative Careers in Education of Lehman College (New York) is described. Since its beginning in February 1973, it has functioned to prepare undergraduate college juniors and seniors for careers as educators in the widest possible variety of educational institutions, including public and private human service institutions, social…

A post-baccalaureate, single-subject program for future secondary school teachers is described. This program contains the following features: (1) it is operated by a team composed of a teacher education department leader, faculty from other departments, master teachers, administrators, community persons, and candidates for the teaching profession;…