The use of videos to analyze teaching practices or initial teacher training is aimed at helping build professional skills by establishing more explicit links between university education and internships and practical work in the schools. The purpose of this article is to familiarize the English-speaking community with French research via a study…

This study explored whether early childhood preservice teachers' concerns about teaching nature of science (NOS) and their intellectual levels influenced whether and how they taught NOS at the preschool and primary (K-3) levels. We used videotaped classroom observations and lesson plans to determine the science instructional practices at the…

This anthology of articles and reports on micro-team teaching (a scaled down team teaching operation usually taking place in a single, self-contained classroom with two student teachers and one cooperating teacher) is divided into three sections. Section One, "An Overview of Micro-Team Teaching," discusses trends in the preservice phase of teacher…

Techniques that practicing pharmacists can use to facilitate student learning in a clinical-preceptorship setting are specified. In addition, signals or clues in the situation that indicate the appropriate mode of teaching are identified and a blueprint for self-instruction in these techniques is provided. (JMD)

The Teacher Recruitment and Internship Project for Success (TRIPS) is an intern-mentor alternative program designed to attract academically talented foreign language, mathematics, and science teachers in Georgia. TRIPS teachers receive summer training in pedagogy, and then are involved in a year-long internship under the direction of a mentor…

TO COMPARE MODES OF TRAINING TEACHERS IN THE LECTURING SKILL OF REDUNDANCY WITHOUT USING DIRECT SUPERVISORY-TEACHER CONFERENCES, 94 TEACHER INTERNS WERE RANDOMLY GROUPED FOR SIX EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS. A RECORDING OF THE INTERN'S CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE WAS FOLLOWED TWICE BY A TRAINING SESSION AND ANOTHER RECORDING. TREATMENTS WERE--VIEWING A MODEL…