The field of early childhood education is growing tremendously, with states designing and implementing prekindergarten programs and universal preschool throughout the country. This is good news for families of young children as well as for the field. With the resulting increased demand for teachers, however, come serious implications for teacher…

A program involving college psychology majors in the diagnosis and remediation of specific learning disabilities of children in an East Harlem elementary school is described. (Author/RM)

A study was made of the clinical experiences, offered by Southeast Missouri State University, for students preparing to be teachers. The study was conducted to determine if modifications in the current system would make possible reallocation of resources, while at the same time preserving the quality of clinical experiences for the students. The…

Eight secondary seniors participated in an archaeological excavation, an experience in confluent learning, that is, an attempt to duplicate real life in the context of an education discipline. The three week experience gave the students an exciting sense of history, archaeological skills, and a feeling of camaraderie among new friends. (JH)

Presents an argument for the expansion of archaeology courses in community colleges, describes the archaeological field work conducted by students at Monroe Community College (Rochester, New York), discusses the implementation of archaeological field work in introductory anthropology curricula, and outlines desirable roles for instructors and…

This paper discusses the problem of low achievers in school and offers suggestions for helping them. It describes one high school's development of a career exploration program--including work experience in the 12th grade--to motivate students who are unable to cope with the regular program. (LD)

There are several steps in the process of making contacts and negotiating agreements with organizations for the placement of communication interns. The first is to decide on what type of internship will be offered: personnel and employee relationships, training and development, community and public relations, marketing and sales management, or…

Recent developments indicate that future urban teacher education models will have as one of their basic components a clinical experience program. This experience should constitute a direct involvement in the activities and way of life of a given group of people in an urban community. The legitimacy of urban sub-cultures must be recognized, and the…

This 2-year program, which began operation in 1969 side by side with the traditional program, has three primary phases. These are: a continuous seminar of 30 elementary education students for planning, evaluation, and discussion of activities; a substantive panel of experts who provide lectures and consultations; and a field experience assignment…

This set of documents includes the original proposal (December 1968) for the 2-year Toledo Teacher Corps program and a summary description of the program half way through its first year (November 1969). The program summary describes it as an undergraduate training program designed to improve the educational process in urban poverty areas and to…

Project 120, 1965 winner of one of the Distinguished Achievement Awards of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, was begun in 1960 to prepare prospective teachers for teaching in inner-city junior high schools. Field trips (planned by a college director of field experiences) into the inner city are provided to acquaint…

This brief overview of the current stage of research at the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas at Austin focuses on the effectiveness of individualizing teacher education programs to prepare teachers who will be able to teach their students how to deal with change. Three successive methods of…

The problems of relevance and integration of professional and liberal arts studies in inner-city teacher education were the bases of a 1969 pilot project which replaced formal education courses with field experiences and weekly seminars (emphasizing behavioral objectives) and which altered admission and course requirements so that 50 percent of…