Substitute teaching should be a common topic for university teacher education courses. Many new teachers will use substitute teaching as a route toward gaining a full-time position. A program is described in which student teachers participated in actual substituting experiences. A relatively simple procedural switch of students was arranged late…

Two teacher educators at the College of Charleston (South Carolina) undertook a project to learn more about what happens in a public high school classroom, in order to make their college instruction more realistic. The instructors taught an advanced senior English class in an inner city high school, and a group of college students from Education…

This paper describes an undergraduate training program for psychology students in the clinical, technical aspects of psychology. The program is designed to prepare students for work under the supervision of doctoral-level psychologists without having to obtain graduate degrees in clinical psychology. The program was developed in 1971 by Georgia…

A three-year project was undertaken to provide community-based career experiences and guidance to out-of-school youth over sixteen in South Dakota. The project, called Pathfinder, aimed to serve mostly (not exclusively) young people who (1) were undecided or completely unaware of career preference, (2) needed to acquire basic and life skills, and…

This document contains the proceedings of a two-day symposium conducted to analyze four different perspectives (psychological, economic, anthropological, and sociological) on evaluating experiential education programs. The perspectives are represented in papers by Samuel H. Osipow, Psychology, Ohio State University; Nicholas M. Kiefer, Economics,…

This report describes the Maclay On-Site Training Project (MOST), a project (at Maclay Junior High School in Los Angeles City School Districts) directed to focus the attention of teacher trainees upon language problems of the educationally disadvantaged child and to bring about improvement in pupils' language skills. The rationale for the project…

Two plans for implementing the clinical based dimension of a competency-based teacher education program are described, weighing some of the advantages and disadvantages, constraints and limitations of each plan. The first design involves a ten week instructional period in which students are required to spend two hours per week in a field site…

Three programs using the Educational Development Center's "Exploring Childhood" curriculum package are discussed in the light of the experiences of home economics and social studies teachers field testing the materials. Designed to provide adolescents with a theoretical and practical look at early childhood, these materials integrate…

A detailed profile of the largest fresh-air education program in the country for disadvantaged youth -- Sea Ventures -- is provided in this document. Created entirely through the effort of volunteers, Sea Ventures provides learning opportunities that go beyond occupying youngsters. This multi-racial/lingual juvenile delinquency prevention program…

The Education Professions Development Act/Early Childhood Education (EPDA/ECE) Project was a field-centered project to prepare district teacher trainers and students of teaching to effectively meet the special educational needs of young disadvantaged children in rural and semi-rural local educational agencies. The project was designed to have both…

This monograph traces the development of field-based teacher education in the U.S., from the first state-supported normal school (1839) to the present questions of control and the dual system of standards of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher…

The purpose of this practicum was to develop and field test a model plan for the Executive Middle School Internship Program at Nova Middle School. The plan was designed to effectuate a marriage between the theoretical and the practical by combining the best elements of classroom analysis with actual experience in the world of executives and…

To meet the sociological, psychological, and linguistic needs of disadvantaged children in teaching the language arts, both special teacher preparation--involving field experiences and mastery of the subject matter as well as teaching strategies--and effective language programs are necessary. Various teaching methods and materials have met with…

A demonstration study was initiated under the auspices of the Department of Education, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and designed to determine the interactive roles that can be undertaken by college, students in teacher training, the public school, and the community. To test the hypothesis that saturation field work would…

In the 60's in response to the social studies curriculum reform movement two demands on the training of elementary school teachers were evident: (1) more instruction in the parent social sciences, and (2) more pointed attention to the development of inquiry processes in the various fields. In response, the University of Georgia initiated a double…