When an instructor reframed the social studies methods course to include a service-learning project, both education certification students and a museum's outreach program benefited. University students gained practical teaching experience leading a children's summer class about local prairie dogs, and the museum gained quality teachers.…

The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of preservice elementary teachers in a content-specific field-based experience with elementary science specialists. Data collected from electronic discussions, interviews, and observations in the field revealed preservice teachers experienced a wide range of instructional and assessment…

The purpose of this research project was to examine the effectiveness of supervised literacy tutoring delivered by 25 secondary teacher candidates to middle and high school students via webcam technology and in person. The results stem from two semester-long studies of technology-delivered tutoring from a university to middle and high school…

Understanding the process by which students naturally construct and internalize their educational experiences relating to career development is important to career counseling. The author investigated how exploratory behaviors during a community-based field experience course contributed to the vocational development of 1st-year medical students.…

This study explored and compared the ways in which school-based cooperating teachers and college supervisors evaluate student teachers. The scores allocated to student teachers by school-based cooperating teachers and college supervisors in the final field experience evaluations of student teachers were analyzed. A mixed methods research design…

Literature indicates that the "National Science Education Standards" ("NSES") teaching standards and inquiry-based teaching strategies for science are not uniformly incorporated into the elementary science methods (eSEM) courses across the U.S. and that field experiences might not provide appropriate models of the inquiry-based science pedagogy…

Partnerships where preservice teachers work with children have been found to be effective in providing real world field experiences for university students. However, little is known about what children gain from these collaborations. This research attempts to rectify this by analyzing a year-long literacy partnership in which 30 children and 55…

The theme for the 58th annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) was Bridging Cultures Through Literacy. In the first section of the Yearbook, Parker Fawson's presidential address captures the unique nature of ALER and its role in his professional development, and then moved beyond to capture the changing…

This document reports the Cycle II Teacher Corps Urban Program at the University of Southern California, a 2-year effort to prepare teachers to work effectively in disadvantaged communities of such diverse racial and ethnic groups as Negroes, Mexican Americans, poor whites, Japanese, Koreans, and Samoans. There is brief description of the two…

The author briefly discusses the philosophy of adventure programming, presents illustrations of its application in wilderness areas, and suggests ways that it may be modified for urban environments. (MJB)

Performance of competency-based learning activities during field experience provided for: (1) the elimination of learning gaps and redundant information; (2) an increase in school-university cooperation; (3) more objective evaluation of teaching-as-career by the student; and (4) facilitation of criterion-referenced assessment based on individual…

Presents observations of the host organization of a field experience program in which graduate students were to familiarize themselves with the role of information in organizations, the functions and capabilities of computer-based information systems, and the process by which information systems can be developed and implemented. (Author/IRT)

Presents reports from seven schools in the United States and Canada in which elementary school students are involved in special service projects such as weather forecasting, newspaper publishing and nursing home visits. (JMB)

The authors trace the origins of field experiences, present a taxonomy for use in thinking about them, and discuss selected issues and problems associated with field teaching experiences. Eight recommendations for improving how field experience programs are structured and how they fit into teacher education are made. (MT)