Practical experiences have grown dramatically in teacher education programs, apparently from a general consensus of the rightness of such experiences as well as the vigorous criticisms of teacher education programs by practicing teachers. A review of research concerning practical experience in teacher education indicates that the knowledge and…

Books, monographs, articles, manuals, pamphlets, films, projects, and institutions that are helpful resources for field experience programs are listed and briefly described. (Editor/PG)

English educators must be specialists; myth of liberal education should be abandoned. (JH)

Two preservice teacher education programs (one standard and one alternative program) were compared to determine whether final ratings of student teachers in the two programs would differ significantly. The standard program involved seven semesters of course work culminating in a semester of student teaching. The alternative program, the Resident…

A student's perspective of graduate level training in evaluation is presented. The primary focus is on the training of evaluators. A secondary focus is on the training of users of evaluation. The position presented in this paper is that (1) evaluation is a higher order skill comprised of many individual skills and skill sets or processes, (2) the…

A SURVEY OF EXISTING FIELD EXPERIENCE PROGRAMS IN THE 18 CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGES WAS CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A HIGH-QUALITY SUPERVISED FIELD-EXPERIENCE PROGRAM IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION. DATA FOR MAJOR FINDINGS WERE COLLECTED FROM (1) A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, (2) AN EXAMINATION OF FIELD-EXPERIENCE…

Accepting the idea that "professional activity in teaching is related to the closeness with which teaching decisions approach the individual learning needs of pupils" would necessitate several changes in the traditional approach to teacher preparation. First, courses would focus on the diagnostic decision-making aspect of teacher behavior. Second,…

Experiential, or experience-based, learning programs can range from subjecting the products of student learning to judgment by adults to placing students in the community where standards are set by adults, students learn to negotiate on their own, and individual experiences are followed by reflection and debriefing. A number of benefits in the…

This booklet of guidelines for the total program of direct and simulated experiences in teacher education has six major sections: 1) Aims of Clinical Experiences; 2) Guidelines to Excellence with Focusing Questions--40 questions on 12 different aspects of the clinical experience programs; 3) Clinical Experiences: Descriptions and…

Extension and field services divisions of universities and new outside agencies will have to be utilized in a new approach to teacher education. Colleges and graduate schools cannot remain the dominating force. Because of the age and needs of undergraduates and the background of college professors, colleges neither help practicing teachers nor…

This model pre-student teaching laboratory program is a modification of the traditional field experience program for secondary teacher education students. Rather than being assigned to individual teachers in a laboratory school, students are organized into cells for exposure to selected professionally oriented experiences in different types of…

A proposed clinical training program for secondary school personnel was based on the principles of job regeneration through curriculum study and research, interprofessional training, and individual career advancement. Early and increasing delegation of instructional tasks and close supervision of both peers and superordinates are provided to…

To develop a rationale for the implementation of a field-based program for teacher education in reading and language arts is the purpose of this paper. The field-based program is discussed in terms of its evolution from the traditional university program, the interrelationship between the competency-based and field-based programs, and a possible…

The first of three volumes of appendixes to the final technical report of the Great Lakes Region Special Education Instructional Materials Center (GLR SEIMC) contains materials related to the Introduction (Appendix A) and the chapter on field services (Appendix B) of the final report. Contained in Appendix A are the subcontracts of the GLR SEIMC…

This document is divided into three sections. Section I describes, from a historical viewpoint, the need for teacher education programs in Jamaica and the subsequent development of the internship program. Internship for a teacher is defined as "a terminal experience in his preparation sequence, preceded by acquisition of a body of substantive…