Otterbein College, Ohio, is offering a 16-credit-hour comparative education program for prospective teachers, to provide opportunity through direct experience to expand the teacher candidate's concept of education, social values, and inter-cultural relationships. For the 1969-70 academic year 15 junior or senior elementary or secondary teacher…

This document takes issue with the concept of competency-based teacher education as presented in the New York Regents Master Plan for Development of Post-Secondary Education, 1972. It maintains that the competency-based concept completely undermines tenure and teacher rights to due process. Further, the paper takes the position that the teacher…

This document is the final report of the Model Educational Research Training (MERT) program, a graduate program of the New York University School of Education. MERT trains urban school staff in skills necessary to identify problems, design valid research projects, and apply research results. The long-term objective is the training of small groups…

This document presents a report of an experimental community service program that took place in Torrecilla Baja (Pinones), a suburban sector of San Juan, Puerto Rico, from June 30, 1971 through May 30, 1972. Students and faculty alike participated in the program, trying to develop recreational and other programs for the 1,300 underprivileged…

Discussed is Dakota State College's Experience Oriented Teacher Education Program designed to prepare prospective teachers through experience in addition to theory. This report describes the four major aspects of the program: participation in public school classrooms prior to student teaching, human relations training experience, field seminars,…

Describes a career awareness program in which focused shadow experiences with General Electric employees are a key element. For two years these shadow experiences were systematically observed and analyzed to clarify actual process elements in the experiences, and to assess their effectiveness in achieving shadow experience objectives. (Author)

Education students can as early as their freshman and sophomore years be engaged in meaningful field experiences designed to help them make more intelligent career decisions based upon realistic understanding and assessments of needed skills and attitudes. (JD)

Findings of this study indicate a high positive evaluation by participants of the Great Lakes Colleges Association--Philadelphia Urban Semester program, designed to help students understand the city, develop self-understanding, and to learn about a field of work related to occupational goals. (MB)

The purposes of this research were to review state standards relating to professional laboratory and field experiences, and to suggest changes which seem warranted in view of the best research and practice available. Both current standards and recommendations are discussed. (MT)

This paper focuses on conceptual and methodological limitations which have been identified in relation to research on field experiences. A point of view is offered as to how research in this area can begin to provide the kinds of empirical data which will be more useful for policy decisions. (CB)

The Personal Orientation Inventory was administered to an experimental group and a control group, each composed of five female occupational therapy students, before and after their six-week psychosocial fieldwork experience. The experimental group also received formal affective training sessions, which, results showed, produced greater positive…

Introduction to Education is the first course students take in the teacher preparation program at Purdue University. It provides an opportunity for students to experience teaching early in their teacher education program. The course consists of a field-based and a campus-based component. The field-based component consists of 10 observations of a…

This article describes one internship training model in school psychology based on an extended internship in diversified settings with many field-based supervisors. (JC)

The internship program described in this paper provides the trainee with experiences and skills consistent with a consulting model for school psychological services. This model is a single-setting, school-based internship under the supervision of a single faculty member. (Author)

This article describes a training model in school psychology which utilizes a geographically separated internship and suggests using a concurrent externship'' in which supervision and field experience are closely tied to the university. (Author)