Northeastern Illinois University provides supervised practical experience in its two-semester administration practicum. Students work with field administrators and a university supervisor to accomplish prearranged tasks. The university supervisory requires students to maintain a log of practicum activities, attend discussion seminars, and make a…

Defines and describes the potential value and nature of an urban anthropology internship as a significant learning experience. Explains necessary steps for setting up and carrying out such a placement while avoiding the pitfalls experienced by field interns in other professions. (CJM)

The Community Learning Program in a Florissant, Missouri, high school provides hands-on career exploration experiences supervised by community sponsors. The program is described here and students' positive responses to an evaluation questionnaire are outlined. (MJL)

Describes the counseling internship program developed by St. John's University in Jamaica, N.Y. Initiative and involvement are stressed with candidates keeping a log of all school activities. (HMV)

Arguing that new concepts and new structures are necessary to overcome academic inertia, the author suggests that, for the small college especially, the interim term may serve to trigger a wide range of innovative activity. (Editor)

The study of literature need not be bound by book or classroom, but may be enhanced by observing community activities first hand. (MM)

Discussed are the essential ingredients for building an effective internship program: highly motivated and competent faculty, commitment to purposes, well-structured academic input, assignments, credit, communication, funding. (JB)

The Indiana University Alternative School Training Program is new, but it has already demonstrated that new procedures for teacher preparation can be derived that can relate to the growing demand for alternative school teachers. (Author)

This plan for teacher education centers is based on three conceptual levels: psychological, organizational, and structural. (MJM)

Describes an overseas field instruction experiment in social work. (PG)

Schools of education must refine factual and theoretical information to the point where it is applicable to specific problems. (NQ)

Examines the goals to which legal education should aspire with a view to developing clinical programs in the U.S. and Australia. (HS)

Describes a New Jersey community college program which provides education students with direct experiences well in advance of the student teaching sequence. (AN)