A description is provided of the Gold Creek Ecological Reserve, 240 acres of undisturbed land in Northeast Los Angeles County, which serves the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) as an outdoor laboratory for students and faculty in numerous disciplines. Section I provides introductory information on the reserve and its features, which…

The Pre-Professional Laboratory Experience course is a semester-long early field experience involving prospective teacher education candidates in routine classroom activities and observation experiences on the elementary and secondary level. The set of handbooks which was developed to accompany the course includes a student handbook, a supervising…

This study examined the perceptions of a sample of supervising teachers of interns in regard to selected aspects of the internship experience and also in regard to their interns. A total of 267 elementary and secondary school teachers who had supervised a student teacher in Spring 1985 responded to a questionnaire about the interns and the…

The report of the National Commission on Excellence in Educational Administration recommended that educational administration preparation programs be planned around five strands--including supervised practice consisting of short- and long-term internships directed by research faculty and practitioners who are clinical faculty members. This idea is…

This study examined the effects of the field experience for student teachers in terms of pupil outcomes. Two main questions were posed: (1) Does the reading or mathematics achievement of pupils in classrooms with a student teacher differ from the achievement of pupils in classrooms without a student teacher? and (2) Among classrooms with a student…

This monograph is an outcome of a request to all of Florida's universities with approved teacher education programs to submit promising models for the education of teachers. In the first section, comments are made on selected reports and proposals for reform, implications for the preparation of teachers are discussed, and a framework is suggested…

In the last fifteen years, the concept of field-based experiences has changed from a Schools, College, and Department of Education (SCDE) focus toward a consumer-oriented model. This paper briefly reviews the early goals and describes the definitions which differentiate clinical experiences from field experiences which may help clarify research…

Iowa's Legislative Extended Assistance Group (LEAG) was formed in 1978 to encourage interaction between state government and university researchers. This report deals with the topic of teaching quality. A stratified random sampling procedure was used to: (1) determine perceived adequacy of new teachers in a number of areas associated with…

The Mathematics Department of the Stichting Opleiding Leraren (SOL) is responsible for the education of secondary school mathematics teachers in the Netherlands. This education takes four and a half years, and includes one year of professional preparation. The program trains teachers to reflect on their experiences by means of directing their own…

The Program for Learning Competent Teaching is an on-site, preservice teacher training program sponsored by the Northern Arizona University's Center for Excellence in Education that attempts to incorporate more of the complexities of teaching than is possible in traditional on-campus lecture classes. The program is a cooperative effort of the…

The history of experiential learning in American higher education is outlined, and the rationale and learning objectives of this type of experience are addressed. Experiential education has resulted from an emphasis on practical knowledge. Although the colonial colleges focused on the classical curriculum, the scientific method of the natural…

This publication offers a conceptual model which evaluates the various components comprising a satisfactory field practicum experience. The model, entitled SET, provides an outline of an effective, proven method for providing counselor trainees with satisfactory field practicum experiences, taking into account the roles and responsibilities of the…

In order to help meet the need for scientifically based practice, as well as the need for a structure within which diverse approaches to practice can be encompassed, this article explicates the concept of scientific practice. The concept is developed as an organic combination of four subconcepts: the task of a practitioner, the scientific…