A long-standing debate within the school counseling profession concerns requiring previous teaching experience as a prerequisite to certification for school counselors. Advocates of the teaching requirement argue that it is necessary for counselors to understand and empathize with classroom teachers. Opponents, although they agree with a need for…

The graduate courses and inservice teacher education workshops in Harrison County, W. Va. serve as a flexible model for inservice design. The description presented in this paper incorporates the followoing components of the teacher center model: (1) semi-annual needs assessment; (2) broad course topics; (3) team teaching techniques; (4) number of…

A teacher's understanding of any teaching behavior or skill must be tested in the context of actual teaching. However, practice that is unenlightened by understanding and by the mastery of concepts about teaching behaviors and skills is of uncertain value in teacher training. (JN)

A pilot program for training cooperating teachers and bettering communication among all participants in the student teaching program is described. (JMF)

An innovative program for student teachers form Indiana University/South Bend involves a full semester of one-half day teaching schedules coupled with in-school seminars on the principles of secondary education. (MB)

A survey conducted by the University of Arkansas at Fayettesville reveals that preprofessional experiences should be included in the first education course so that students might determine if career expectations match their career aspirations. (MM)

Observation of 10 primary school student teachers through a field experience affiliated with their one-year postgraduate training course revealed that, although the subjects differed in their conceptualization and reflection of practice, they typically progressed through three stages involving fitting in, passing assessment, and exploring.…

This paper describes the field experience of 30 undergraduate students in a teacher education program at the University of North Dakota. As part of an introductory teaching and learning course, teacher education students prepared for and taught elementary students in a small, rural school for one-day. The school enrolled 80 children in…

This paper describes a model of a field based or clinical experience program for prospective teachers. An overview of issues and concerns regarding field experiences and student teaching describes the traditional approach to supervised practice teaching. In a discussion of contemporary perspectives on student teaching programs, it is noted that…

This study investigated the differences in secondary preservice teachers' perceptions of school climate before and after completion of a field-based practicum experience. It also sought to determine if there were significant relationships between their perceptions of school climate and their grade point average in selected standardized tests. The…

The objective of an early field experience program is to force students to confront their assumptions on teaching. The experience, coupled with activities and readings in the university classroom, is designed to make students reconsider a variety of issues--what it means to learn something, the intellectual capabilities of children, the role of…

Attitude changes by student teachers resulting from participation in early field-based experiences in an inner-city elementary school were examined. Introductory sophomore-level courses (Introduction to Exceptional Children, Foundations of Educational Thought, and Human Growth and Development) were offered to two groups of students in a…

A study was conducted to determine the attitudes of undergraduate education students regarding the importance of experiences with children and to examine the effects of age, prior experiences with children, and class standing on their attitudes. The purpose of this study was to seek an appropriate balance among field experiences, methods, content,…

A campus-based education program for preservice students in secondary education that incorporates formal study with an active internship in the local schools is described. University faculty are primarily responsible for the campus-based learning experience while personnel of the local school district assume responsiblity for field-based site…

Ways of implementing educational innovations produced by research into practice in the schools are considered. It is stated that the most effective tool for accomplishing this is inservice teacher education. The characteristics of an exemplary inservice teacher education program are outlined and discussed. The suggestion is made that teacher…