This booklet describes eight University of Washington teacher education projects in operation during the 1969-70 school year to develop and test various performance-based, field-experience approaches and a management system in which the university and cooperating school districts provided for released time for selected school personnel to serve as…

Application of certain anthropological research methods to teacher education, particularly the field experience component, could have a beneficial effect on a future teacher's perception of his role. Present field experience programs can be divided into two types: "apprentice" or student teaching, in which the teacher trainee progresses from…

This paper both corrects and expands on the work of Corwin and his colleagues in "Reform and Organizational Survival: The Teacher Corps as an Instrument in Educational Change." It is the author's contention that, by analysing variables that are common to all 10 programs discussed in that study and ignoring those that are unique to the…

The Clinical Approach to Teacher Education at Boise State Colleges places its students into two concurrent classes which run for two consecutive semesters and which emphasize the integration of theory and practice. Its ultimate goal is the development of a culminating year-long internship for the study of child behavior, curriculum, and…

This document contains the second annual report of the operation of the University of South Dakota's Cooperative Education Program (CEP). The objective of CEP is the development of service-learning educational experiences for college students. These experiences are commonly called an internship and are conducted during the student's academic…

This pilot program represents a joint effort by the community of Gahanna, Ohio Otterbein College, and Capital University to develop a full-year internship within a 4-year baccalaureate program that would involve three students in elementary teacher education from each college. Temporary teaching certificates were obtained for the six interns, who…

This speech outlines a local elementary principals association's innovative program of career development for elementary school principals. This program consisted of three elements: (1) human relations skills, (2) management training, and (3) internships. The program's uniqueness centered around its longrange training projections for currently…

This project, supported by federal, state, and local funds for 3 years, was designed to reduce the attrition of underachieving students; to develop positive attitudes toward self, others, school, and society; to increase enthusiasm and interest for teaching as a profession; and to develop interest and understanding for teaching the disadvantaged.…

Seven rural California counties participated in a teacher preparation internship program funded by the Education Professions Development Act. The 101 elementary teacher intern candidates--having a wide range of academic backgrounds, personal interests, and talents--first took part in an 8-week summer preservice experience consisting of (1)…

This study contains a syllabus and illustrations of programs for training university administrators. The introduction discusses some of the elements essential to an effective training program. Section I presents the guidelines for the purposes and uses of the syllabus. Section II, the syllabus, is divided into four parts: (1) eight topical…

Persons concerned with both higher education and community service came together in mid-1969 to discuss the pros and cons of service-learning programs and to determine the need for such programs. The participants at the conference recommended: (1) that colleges and universities encourage student community service, assist in assuring disciplined…

This monograph forms the second part of a project which intends to: (1) provide an historical background of the internship concept in education and other professions, (2) examine the internship as implemented in the 11 original institutions founded under the 1968 Amendments of the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and (3) conduct an in-depth…

The present and future conditions of elementary teacher internship programs were considered in this study. A questionnaire was mailed to 67 California teacher preparation institutions and 43 institutions selected from other states. A follow-up study was conducted one year later to determine any program revisions that were occurring in the…

Listed are some considerations, including advantages and disadvantages, of doctoral internships in special education programs within state education agencies. Among advantages noted are that the student gains knowledge of the daily functioning of a state department while maintaining relations with his university, and that an awareness of other…

A program description, including historical development, of the congressional intern program on Capitol Hill, which in the summer of 1974 involved 1800 college students and teenagers, 15 or 20 in the offices of some Senators. The program includes formal speaker and seminar programs as well as work experience. (JT)