This pilot program in elementary teacher preparation was performance based, field centered, and team taught. The goals of this program were a) the development of the student's perception of himself as an individual and a professional person; b) the ability to describe the characteristics and conditions for effective learning; c) the design and…

The Competency Oriented Personalized Education Program (COPE) was developed by the Washington State University education faculty as a model of a competency-based and individualized teacher preparation program to meet the needs of a dynamic social enterprise. The essence of the COPE program is a learning model which has three basic stages:…

This program is a cooperative arrangement between the College and a consortium of 53 school districts--over one-half the districts in Idaho--to train longtime residents who have at least 2 years of college education who would remain in their districts to provide continuity to each school's professional staff. The curriculum consists of over 200…

This study found no significant difference in classroom teaching performance between participants enrolled in the three semester on-site teacher preparation sequence and participants enrolled in a one semester on-campus and two semester on-site sequence. Subjects were 39 volunteer undergraduate students enrolled in the Department of Secondary…

This document contains four separate reports on different aspects of the teacher education program at the new Governors State University. The first report describes a "learning team," which is to consist of approximately 14 individuals--both professors and students--who have come together because of common interests in a given profession. The team…

This document describes the Performance Based Undergraduate Program for the education of teachers at Brooklyn College--a program which encompasses the performance-based field-centered approach and the identification and analysis of teaching behaviors. Evaluation and feedback techniques are described as necessary parts of the curriculum for each of…

This specialized teacher training program, submitted by Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois as an entry in the 1973 Distinguished Achievement Award Program, provided perspective teachers with increased opportunities and experiences in specific areas of competency. These areas were early childhood education and remedial reading. The Remedial Reading…

This field training guide outlines the program devised for prospective assistant Extension agents in the area of home economics. The field training program provides enough time for the trainee to gain some understanding of planning, executing, and evaluating Extension work under the supervision of experienced Extension workers. The teaching…

An exchange program is described in which two groups of high school science students, one from Long Island, New York, and one from upstate New York, visited each other's school districts for three days to broaden their experiences with different physical and geological surroundings. The inland group of students was exposed to marine geology and…

This paper is a description of an undergraduate experiment initiated at the University of Texas at Arlington during the academic year 1974-75. The thrust of the experiment was to instill more realism in the professional courses at the Education Department and simultaneously to assist in instigating changes in the public schools. A document…

This project report gives information regarding the effectiveness of regional counselor training efforts for 463 newly employed untrained VR counselors from D.C., Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania. The course spanned a two-week period; six weeks academic and six…

National Board of Medical Examiner's exam results show that U.S. medical students who participated between 1968 and 1974 in Yugoslav or Israeli international fellowship programs sponsored by the Association of American Medical Schools and the U.S. Public Health Service gained knowledge of preventive medicine and public health. (JT)

The school health services field experience program provides senior student nurses with the opportunity to acquire an accurate, comprehensive working knowledge of the functions and responsibilities of the school nurse-teacher. (RC)

A collection of reactions to and discussions of legal education are presented, which constitute a critique of the liberal arts orientation of law schools, and proposals are made for making law school more practitioner oriented. (JT)

Describes the development and use of standardized forms found to be effective for evaluating clinical clerkship experiences of pharmacy students. Copies of the Preliminary Questionnaire and the Post-Evaluation Form are included along with the goals of the Washington State University College of Pharmacy Clinical Pharmacy Program. (JT)