Ensuring teacher candidates have high-quality experiences in their clinical placements is essential for sustaining their progress as teachers, and ultimately, the teaching profession. This article explores mentor teachers' perceptions of effective university supervisors and the ways in which the mentors' perceptions of effective supervision…

Elementary student teachers in both a yearlong and one-semester student teaching design were impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This phenomenon forced the closure of placement schools and their universities, and drastically changed the roles and responsibilities of student teachers. This qualitative phenomenology study sought to capture and…

In this self-study, the author focuses on ways of embracing and managing a central dilemma of student teaching supervision: balancing assistance with assessment. Drawing on his practice as a field supervisor, the author chronicles conversations with student teachers over a 2-year period in the context of two distinct teacher education programs.…

Guidelines for selection and professional training of the university supervisor of student teachers are presented. Also included is a summary of responses by 136 cooperating teachers to a questionnaire on effective supervision. (IAH)

This article examines selected approaches to student teacher supervision within the context of contingency theory. These include authentic supervision, developmental supervision, and supervision based on the student's level of maturity. (MT)

Discusses the role of the college supervisor in the student teacher segment of teacher education programs and stresses the need for and importance of the position and the necessity to make it more professional. (MB)

An experiment conducted with student teachers to see if instruction in Vimcet materials and actual classroom experience would significantly change their preferences for learning objectives produced no statistically significant change but did show a gain in mean "Instructional Objectives Preference List" (IPOL) scores. (MB)

The general outline of a course for cooperating teachers and supervisors in student teaching programs is presented and discussed. (JMF)

A survey was conducted at teacher education institutions in Colorado and Wyoming to determine the degree of role conflict and to distinguish between the perceived and the functioning roles of the generalist and the specialist in the supervision of student teachers. (SK)

The Fulton Project seems to have reduced student anxiety regarding student teaching by providing the students with (1) a gradual introduction to the teaching process, (2) the opportunity to experiment in a no-fail situation, and (3) the support of peers, cooperating teachers, and college professors. (MM)

The thinking styles of cooperating teachers and university supervisors were examined to identify differences between them. Results indicated that cooperating teachers exhibit significantly more "conventional" thinking than supervisors. University supervisors should make clear to cooperating teachers that student teachers must be…

Investigated the supervisory beliefs of elementary and secondary cooperating teachers, noting differences in those who had and had not taken a course in supervision and differences between the beliefs of supervisors and cooperating teachers. Surveys indicated that teachers held a continuum of beliefs regarding supervisory styles. The indirect…

A rationale is presented for Early Field Experience (EFE) to support the traditional student teaching segment of preservice teacher education, arguing that EFE will provide the student with more practical experience, acquired at a more natural pace, on which to base career decisions. (MB)