The report covers the first two years of the 3 year Alternatives for Paraprofessional Training (APT) project. The project addresses the need for training paraprofessionals who currently are working with young handicapped children in rural and urban areas of Texas. APT provides onsite competency based training for paraprofessionals through a…

A program with the major goal of achieving effective collaboration between public school personnel and university personnel in the preparation of physical education teachers is described. This program consists of two segments--a block of courses carrying semester credit hours and a student teaching supervision option. University personnel work…

It was hypothesized that student teachers supervised with telephone conferencing would be rated as well or better by their cooperating teachers than students supervised with personal meetings with their faculty advisor. It was also hypothesized that pupils who had been taught to read Landsat satellite maps by student teachers supervised by…

This model is based on a training program at Chicago State University designed to train planners and operators of community education programs. Academic content is combined with field-based training. According to the model, first the needs of the communities of the participants should be identified. Then personnel from each agency involved should…

An education program designed to provide experiences for graduate students that would prepare them to teach at the college level is described. The practicum courses offered were developed to bring theoretical and practical aspects of undergraduate teacher education into a clear and interacting relationship and to help students in applying what…

The Detroit Public Schools-Wayne State University Elementary Team Internship Pilot Program was developed to provide an internship (after the student teaching experience) permitting elementary education students to assume the role of teacher. The team internship unit consisted of four interns, two assigned to each of two proximate classrooms; one…

Described is a training institute for teachers and school community workers who would be working in preschool centers. Trainees spent their mornings doing their field work in a Head Start classroom and afternoons in discussion groups with their instructors. Consultants from various disciplines addressed the training group. The school community…

The National Level Internship Program is designed to give eight students at the doctoral level in educational administration the opportunity to work for a year in federal or private, special or general education agencies at the national level. The purpose is to provide training to a new generation of educational leaders at a time when the need to…

As a field learning experience, 14 students at College of the Mainland (Texas) examined the structure and components of community leadership in Texas City, Texas. The students were divided into two groups, under the direction of a humanities staff member. The first group, using the reputational study technique, asked community residents to…

The West Dallas Teacher Education Program is a competency-based program to better prepare teachers for service in inner-city schools. The program utilizes a field-based, professional semester format to directly relate didactic instruction and clinical practice. The project is staffed by three North Texas State University faculty members.…

This program, leading to specialization in reading on the undergraduate level, has been developed by the Division of Reading in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa. The B.A. program in Elementary Education: Remedial Reading is characterized by early and continuous involvement with children in classrooms…

The Suburban Teacher Education Program (STEP) was established at Texas Southern University in spring 1975. STEP is a 16 week experience which seeks to effectively prepare black preservice teachers for suburban "cross-over" schools. It consists of two eight week segments, the first of which is devoted to the involvement of participants in…

The directory lists the types of preceptorship experiences (courses of study in which students receive part of their training in a health care setting outside the direct confines of the educational institution and under the supervision of a practicing professional who serves as a preceptor) available at health professional schools and also the…

This is the final report of the Cycle 8 Teacher Corps Project of the University of Iowa. The project was designed for 20 bilingual interns, all third and fourth year undergraduates. The cooperating teachers were selected upon the recommendation of local superintendents and principals. The planning period of the program was August 1973 to May 1974.…

This paper describes the overall conceptual and pedagogical goals of a program ('Exploring Childhood') designed to help adolescents gain competence in working with children and an understanding of the forces that shape children's development. The paper is intended as an explanation of the assumptions and questions that guided the development of…