All styles of genre research share an attention to particular features of texts in use. The question is, however, how to teach genre. This paper first reviews what seem to be two opposed theories of teaching genre. After arguing that to differing extents both theories rely upon a transmission model of teaching, the paper then discusses attempts to…

Shadows is an individualized, hands-on, real-world career experience that provides students with a structured look at the future world of work in health care. The program helps students build a bridge between school-based learning and established health care skills standards. Shadows focuses on expanding the student's horizons beyond the classroom…

The New York Theological Seminary combines workshops and courses to develop practical experience in the ministry. The seminary offers a one-year internship program for urban ministry, a Urban Year Master's Program, and a training workshop for store front preachers in community leadership. (PG)

This paper documents the type of functions performed by interns and the relative quantity of time devoted to each function. It also evaluates the program from the point of view of the teaching staff of the school and assesses the effects of the program on the teachers' conceptions of the optimal functions of mental health professionals. (Author)

Student demands have brought significant innovation in the French educational system. The author comments upon the approaches which France is using in training its secondary school teachers. (Author/RK)

Describes an educational program which responds to the need for greater cooperation between students and the community, and suggests ways for independent schools to become more efficient. (RK)

Efforts were made to stimulate minority involvement in the placement programs at the University of Washington. A job fair, resume book, and internship program generated a high degree of student participation. (Author)

Describes an internship program to help student teachers develop sensitivity to environmental influences on children from minority and poverty cultures. (NH)

Medical faculty tend to influence their students to a great degree in choice of medical specialization. (HS)

Fourth-year medical students spend one year with practicing physicians in rural areas. (Author)

Proposes a design based on a systematic statement of behavioral objectives for the operation of administrative internships. (Author)

Proposes that supervision of the counselor trainee be extended into the trainee's first employment setting following completion of his master's degree program. This extension would be of benefit to the counselor training program, the counselor trainee and the local school or agency. (Author)

To prepare them for the increasing use of computers, interns at Kaiser Foundation Hospital may receive training in medical applications of electronic data processing techniques. (IR)