Clinical education is learning in a field setting where the emphasis is on knowledge application, feedback, appraisal, and reapplication. Mid-career administrators can improve management, communication, and political skills in clinical settings where close observation of performance, judgments about performance, and prescriptions for improvement…

The procedures for awarding academic credit in one particular community service learning program, the University Year for ACTION, were examined through an analysis of the responses to a mail questionnaire sent to all UYA program directors. Almost all of the programs include a fairly traditional academic component that probably has as much, or as…

The goal of the study was to evaluate the contribution of field education to the competence of the parish minister. Questionnaires were sent to a sample of 471 1964 graduates of 86 Protestant theological seminaries asking for information about their present position, their experience in field education while in seminary, and their judgment of its…

This compendium contains descriptions of 59 community action projects that receive academic credit from 48 colleges and universities. Brief descriptions are given of the diverse institutions offering such field work for credit, including information on enrollment and type (i.e., public, private, etc.). Although the characteristics of the programs…

Four components comprise the elementary education program offered at Illinois State University in cooperation with the Peoria Public School System. Three components familiarize the student with curricula in arts, communication, and the natural and social sciences. The fourth segment of the program is a full-semester clinical experience at the…

The Competency Based Teacher Preparation Program at the University of Houston and its complementary management system have evolved from a set of logically derived assumptions about the nature of teaching. The program characteristics call for a program that is founded in the reality of the teaching act, treats all of the persons involved therein as…

This report summarizes the results of a pre-student teaching field experience for elementary education majors at Pennsylvania State University. A program was organized in which public school teachers agreed to work with students to provide on-the-spot tutorial instruction regarding the teaching technique they employed, to provide the opportunity…

The four major characteristics of the program are listed and described as follows: a) the Professional Block is field centered with "individualized learning packets" taking the place of campus-based education courses; b) the program is highly individualized, with the student, aided by his cooperating teacher, tailoring his program to the…

The Exploratory Field Experience in Education program is a field-based program for those students who indicate that they wish to pursue a professional career in education. The aim of the program is to assist the student in making an intelligent career choice early in his college years. The program is set for the first semester of the sophomore…

This guide resulted from the work of 14 colleges and universities participating in the Red River Valley Inter-Institutional Project, which related to the education of the culturally disadvantaged child. The project included two field experiences, one urban and the other rural; orientation meetings; and discussions. The aims of the Red River Valley…

The Winnipeg Centre Project is a field-based, work-study program that attempts to create more appropriate education for the inner-city child. Sponsored by the Planning and Research Branch of the Department of Colleges and Universities Affairs and administered by Brandon University in consultation with the Winnipeg School Division, the project is…

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…