Describes a cooperative program in which university engineering and business classes participate in business-sponsored projects. (MLH)

Describes Mills College's graduate-level teacher credential program, addressing the appropriateness of student teaching placements in relation to the aims and ideology of the teacher education program and examining the four dimensions of fieldwork as a learning context (nested learning, blending principles, safety, and reflective focus).…

Describes the "It Takes a Valley" program, which provides future teachers extensive early field experience and opportunities to develop strategies for success in high-needs schools. The program emphasizes collaboration, service learning, and student cohorts. Data from participants' journals and formal evaluations indicate that the…

Discusses the human dimensions of Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program learning about the relationship between engineering and public policy. Describes modes of engineering and government interaction. Presents the demographic data and current employment of students selected during the first 10 years of the program. (YP)

Field experience for prospective teachers contributes to both image-building and learning to teach. Negative and positive outcomes are discussed, as well as issues related to designing educational field experiences. (IAH)

Summarizes a 1993 year-long study of six beginning school administrators's career-transition experiences. Based on data gathered through interviews with these administrators and the author's own experience, this article offers recommendations for new principals and assistant principals covering three professional-development areas: academic…

Education majors need an updated field experience aimed at studying adolescents from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Visiting a local shopping mall on a Friday night to observe teens in their natural habitat is entertaining and enlightening. By surveying kids, college students can find out what teens value and examine their own…

Describes a collaboration between a university class (on "writing for elementary teachers"), a professor, a first-grade class, and the first-grade teacher, in which the university students and professor visited the first-grade class four times. Notes how all participants enjoyed and profited from the experience. (SR)

Analyzes administrative content areas prioritized according to competence and aspiration by midmanagement (principal) interns over an eight-year period as they completed administrative certification programs. Interns were primarily concerned with areas of practice involving instructional leadership and were less concerned about certain technical…

A 20-week experiential pharmaceutical training program was developed to meet the learning objectives of a traditional externship/clerkship program without the arbitrary separation of clinical activities from distributive and management experiences, and to provide understanding of the purpose of managed care practice and strategic planning process…

Development of college and university degree programs based entirely on workplace learning is increasing and is characterized by responsiveness to employee educational needs, employer demand, restricted government funding for higher education, and institutions' need to appeal to wider markets. These newer approaches cause considerable tension in…

Reviews the rationale for including prevention in the clinical medicine clerkship. Summarizes current guidelines, presents examples of curricula in several medical schools, and proposes a future direction that stresses integrating teaching preventive medicine into internal medicine clerkships and across the entire four-year medical curriculum. (DB)

Sixty-four master's of social work (MSW) students reported on observational-participatory and conceptual linkage learning activities used in their first- and second-year field placements. Greater use of some activities was associated with student satisfaction and perception of quality but not with field instructors' ratings of student performance.…

Describes a unique field experience, an outgrowth of a partnership with Seton Hall University and The Liberty Science Center (New Jersey), that immerses K-12 teachers in innovative methods of learning and teaching science. Notes the program helps teachers gain firsthand experience, use interactive exhibits at a science center, and adopt the…

Field experiences of college students in adult/workplace (n=10), secondary (n=15), and nursing (n=14) education were compared. Common outcomes included professional socialization, confidence in professional roles, and the desire to make a difference. Field experience quality depended on the type of practice opportunities and nature of the setting.…