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…

The authors discuss the development of a diagnostic-prescriptive teaching and learning program in the Youngstown public school system; give background material; describe organizational form and implementation; and conclude with a series of "points to ponder" for educators contemplating a similar venture. (MB)

Describes a collaborative partnership between a special education professor and a general education professor within a program that highlights the integration of two courses: Academic Curricular Adaptations and Elementary Social Studies Methods and Curriculum. The article discusses the coteaching model and describes the integrated curriculum and…

A set of personal and academic qualities has been identified for unit leaders in IGE programs so that they might better assume the role of educational decision-makers. (MM)

An internship program designed to familiarize preservice teachers with the working mechanisms of the Individually Guided Education method of instruction is discussed. (LH)

Preservice education specifically, and teacher education generally, should be more of a collaborative responsibility and an interrelated endeavor than it presently is. (Author)

The role of the unit leader in IGE programs is examined, and recommendations are made for general courses and workshops to develop leadership characteristics in the prospective unit leaders. (MM)

Implemented a situated learning model of coteaching in the weekly field component of a secondary science methods course. Students cotaught by observing and assisting their teachers for one period, then taught the same lesson, supported by their teachers, the following period. This resulted in comfort in learning to teach, increased confidence in…

This article enumerates the conditions needed for comprehensive and continuing renewal to occur within school systems. (JS)

Teachers in IGE should emphasize and explain the goals, instructional objectives, and philosophy of the unit team. (MM)

Teacher training programs should permit elementary teachers to specialize in either language arts/social studies or mathematics/science, and prepare them for employment in departmentalized teaching situations. Advantages of such an approach are discussed, as are changes that would be required both at the elementary school level and at teacher…

Describes participants' experiences in collaboratively teaching a social studies methods course as part of a Professional Development School project, noting changes in participants' attitudes and apprehensions. Data from taped conversations, journals, and interviews indicated that weekly interactions and joint decision making helped surmount…