The Career Opportunities Program (COP) involves eight county school systems in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia with on-the-job preparation of teacher aides while the latter work towards college degrees at Shepherd College. Aides receive educational preparation through specially designed practicums that emphasize materials and methods in a…

Following more than 2 years of study and research, the faculty of the College of Education developed a plan whereby the student experience is focused on three major elements: a) the Individualized Learning System, b) the Field Experience, and c) the Personal Development Experience. These three elements are integrated to constitute a total learning…

The Nova Project of the Department of Secondary Education at California State University, San Diego, is described in this report. This one-year preparation program for secondary school teachers combines school and community experience with the focus on a team approach. Faculty and students work with local school personnel in the joint planning,…

This document contains the second annual report of the operation of the University of South Dakota's Cooperative Education Program (CEP). The objective of CEP is the development of service-learning educational experiences for college students. These experiences are commonly called an internship and are conducted during the student's academic…

This document relates the basic notion of accountability to the preparation and supervision of teachers within the limits of accountability. The paper discusses the following questions: a) What competencies are the responsibility of preservice and in-service education? b) What is the role of supervision in teacher accountability? Of the…

Lehigh University's Social Restoration Program prepares teachers via an experimental action-internship model to work with delinquent and predelinquent youth in a variety of settings. The program is field centered and competency based, combining theory with practice in each of the three phases of the program. Phase one, the preinternship practicum,…

The program described in this document is designed to give student teachers an opportunity to enrich their general background and their specialized interest while gaining an experience as a teacher in an environment which will give them new and varied opportunities to observe teaching methods. The first 11 students were placed overseas in January…

Cooperative education involves on-campus instruction and off-campus work experience. These programs can be referred to as work study, field work, or work experience. The student has the advantage of applying his knowledge in a work situation; the college gains financial benefits; and the employer has the opportunity to influence the student to…

The Teaching-Learning Clinic, developed at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, provided on-campus clinical student teaching experience. The purposes of the clinic were to create a reliable system of describing cognitive change in student teachers so such data may assist in restructuring student teaching situations based on sound theoretical…

The College of Education at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse has initiated a nuclear design for teacher education. The design provides two centers working in cooperation with the College of Education and the cooperating schools. The Education and Resource Center has five components: social studies, English, science, mathematics, and reading.…

This document reviews the student-initiated program IMPACT, developed at Concordia Teachers College, Nebraska. The purpose of this volunteer program was to create opportunities for students to become involved with people and society in general as soon as they arrive on campus. A pattern of "withdrawal and return" is created. Students…

Involvement of pre-student teachers in a field-based teaching experience organized by the University of Texas at Arlington produced personal and professional growth in the affective domain in over half of the participants. Those education majors who elected to join the program were required to assume the role of teacher aides in a public school…

Based on the premise that therapy is a way of learning, two Field Centers were developed: (1) a small group in New Mexico who studied geology, botany, wilderness survival skills and themselves, the latter using group dream study methods and (2) a group in Switzerland to study Jungian psychology including individual analysis. (JT)

The author looks to the future of curriculum development and poses queries as to the nature of social studies courses and the most appropriate modes of presentation of them in grades 7-10. (Author/RM)

Describes a six-week field plant ecology course in Montana which is offered by the Botany Department at Southern Illinois University. The goals of the course, how it is taught, and student evaluation are also presented. (HM)