This is a brief personal review of the Rutgers University urban internship program which is operated in conjunction with the New Jersey Urban Education Corps. The purpose of the program is to prepare liberal arts graduates to be secondary school teachers in urban areas. The recruiting of the interns took place mostly at black colleges and…

The Urban Teacher Corps was developed to attract and train young men and women to teach in inner-city schools and simultaneously to have them experiment with and develop curriculum materials appropriate to urban youngsters, particularly in terms of increased motivation and involvement. The three essential components of the training program which…

This final report by four universities outlines a 6-year project, begun in 1961, under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation. The project was designed to study and demonstrate the feasibility of an interinstitutional program of internship in educational administration. The report covers (1) the program proposal and rationale; (2) details of the…

This study presents the current requirements, standards, and preferences used by superintendents of Texas public schools in their selection of elementary school principals. Specifically, the study attempted to discover the aspects, other than college records and State certification, that are considered in the selection of principals. A…

Designed to give vocational education teachers actual experience in business and industry, this project involved the joint efforts of Eastern Washington State College and several government and private agencies. The project centered around 10 teachers selected from the various service areas of vocational education, who exchanged positions for 6…

The Youth Leadership Development Program was established in July 1969 to aid Appalachian communities in encouraging young people in the region to remain in Appalachia, to help build the future, and to become a new generation of leaders. During the summer of 1970, Appalachian Regional Commission assistance enabled more than 500 Appalachian young…

This paper describes the conceptualization and operation of a modular organized-accountability teacher training program for fourteen American Indian teacher-trainees. Indian Teacher Training Program (ITTP) graduates will be prepared to teach secondary social studies in Indian schools as well as other schools. Hopefully, these teachers will be able…

After refining the Illinois Model for Occupational Teacher Internship, 20 practicing occupational teachers in public schools field tested the model to determine the nature and value of the concept of business/industry internships. Some major findings from data on intern evaluations revealed that (1) the internship provided an educationally…

The drug counseling program at the University of Iowa is an interdisciplinary program to train masters degree counselors. Fifteen students are admitted each year in the Division of Counselor Education to enroll in a M.A. program in School Counseling, Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling, or College Student Personnel. The curriculum is…

Describes an intern's experience in a diversified field training program for school psychologists and how the role and function of the school psychologist in each setting changes. Discusses benefits of the "extended diversified" model training program as seen by 15 second-year students in such a program. (Author)

The current state of postsecondary experiential education in the United States is assessed in the light of the contrasting history of the effort to integrate work and education in contemporary China. (Author/LBH)

Describes the internship program offered by Ohio University to library and information professionals from the Asian and Pacific region. Origin of the program; purposes of internships; structure (length of training, scheduling, intern interests); costs (travel, living, administrative); and funding sources are noted. Recommendations for continuation…

A carefully planned intern program at this small liberal arts college has won over the faculty. (Author)

A study tested the claim that work-based learning can have positive effects on academic learning. Data were obtained through interviews with faculty, staff, students, and employers, and observation of classroom-based links to the work-based learning components at three sites involved in a work-based learning project. At the three sites, a total of…

This study examines the mentoring practices of a mentor teacher who was actively engaged in creating an inquiry-focused, year-long internship, noting the intern-mentor dyad's negotiation of a successful learning context as perceived by the intern, the mentor, and a university faculty member. Data collection involved both ethnographic and…