The home observations of the patient's interaction with his spouse and children are used to define treatment goals and to measure behavior change. Also it focuses on the therapist patient interaction on behavioral and interpersonal problems, and provides a way of involving the patient's environment in the treatment process. (Author)

Briefly describes four different programs at Ball State University. (RT)

Reports on a project combining agency and university program resources to teach teenage mothers child care and self-sufficiency, promote the healthy development of their children, and give field training to social work students. (Author/RH)

Among the strategies for teacher improvement at Des Moines Area Community College (IA) are workshops, internships, industrial work experience, cross training, and industrial visitation. (SK)

Describes a three-week interterm program at Southern Methodist University during which journalism students spend time learning at agencies and offices in New York, London, and Los Angeles. (HOD)

Discusses the benefits of early field experiences to elementary education majors. (SJL)

Discussed is a preservice teacher education curriculum involving planned field experience in assisting practicing teachers in supplementing elementary school curricula with environmental education. (RE)

Describes curriculum and field experiences for students in bereavement therapy. Counselors learn to use therapeutic models and developmental guidance skills. Field work includes visiting hospitals, nursing homes and funerals, as well as library research. (JAC)

A need has evolved for the design and implementation of a new system of teacher education that emphasizes laboratory experiences. (JD)

In the training situation, the inherent inequality of the field instructor and social work student as group cotherapists can be improved. A variety of techniques can improve the feeling of mutuality and provide opportunities for student participation in the team effort. (MSE)

Providing a supervised training experience within a public school setting for physicians in practice allows them increased comfort in the schools, more knowledge about the educational process and related health issues, and greater developmental expertise. (CJ)

Fine Arts Career Education (FACE) in Columbus, Georgia, provides high school students with experience in music, the visual arts, theater/dance, and writing through a combination of classroom learning and placement with volunteer artists in the community. This description is part of a theme issue on arts career education. (SJL)

Earthwatch, a nonprofit clearinghouse that places interested amateurs on scientific expeditions, has sent over 3,000 people to work with 350 scholars. This article describes experiences of a young woman doing archaeological fieldwork at a 300-year-old California mission. (DS)

Describing problems of the field component of a teacher education program, this article discusses: poor supervising teacher role models; inferior school programs; schools that only use college students for clerical aides; college interference in and domination of local school curriculum; and additional expense and management problems for colleges…