This study evaluated the success of Teachers Teaching Teachers, an Indiana staff development model in its first implementation. The project consisted of a cadre of teachers from one school system who trained teachers from four other school systems. Participants were evaluated on nine Likert-type pre- and post-measures at each of the four training…

This guide is designed for use by foreign language department chairpersons. The following topics are discussed: (1) goals of supervision, (2) the attitude of a good evaluator, (3) basic principles and purposes of supervisory visits, (4) what to look for during the supervisory visit, (5) the followup conference, (6) how to use the instruments for…

This study was conducted to identify: (1) student teaching competencies in home economics which cooperating teachers could assume as their major responsibilities, (2) methods and techniques that have been effectively used and which ought to be implemented to help cooperating teachers assume responsibility, and (3) roles that three groups of…

The article suggests that a student teacher's main supervisor should be a clinical professor who is capable of helping the student examine numerous questions about education, and who will help him or her work with an instructional team to implement innovative ideas. (CD)

Data were collected from 307 senior level student teachers over 3 semesters in rural and urban placements and from 78 cooperating teachers on the qualities they considered most important for cooperating teachers. Cooperating teachers also offered information about skills and practices that work successfully in the student teaching relationship.…

The purpose of this study was to train cooperating teachers in a Behavioral Model of Supervision (BMS-PE). Four cooperating teachers in suburban school districts in central Ohio were trained using this model that emphasized communicating feedback with more details and holding teachers more accountable for their performances during post-teaching…

Focusing on various facets of the supervision of teachers in all capacities, this selected annotated bibliography was prepared for those cooperating teachers, student teachers, university supervisors, school supervisors, administrators, and other school personnel who wish to investigate in greater detail any number of aspects of the theory and…

FOUR GROUPS OF 15 STUDENT TEACHERS EACH WERE USED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT (A) THOSE TAUGHT INTERACTION ANALYSIS WOULD BE MORE INDIRECT (ACCEPTING OF PUPIL FEELINGS AND IDEAS, ENCOURAGING, QUESTIONING) AT THE END OF STUDENT TEACHING THAN THOSE TAUGHT LEARNING THEORY, AND (B) AMONG THOSE TAUGHT INTERACTION ANALYSIS, THOSE SUPERVISED BY…

This study ascertained the relationship between rankings of 47 supervising classroom teachers and their attitudes toward education. Independent rankings of supervisory effectiveness were obtained from 47 classroom teachers, 91 student teachers, and 12 university personnel. Each classroom teacher completed two standardized attitude toward education…

Attitudes of student teachers and cooperating teachers were measured during a one-year postgraduate program for secondary school teachers at an Australian university. Student teachers' attitudes tended to be stable over time, although their views moved closer to those of cooperating teachers during practice teaching. (Author/PP)

Literature on student teaching, cooperating teachers, and college supervisors is reviewed. Changes in the role of the college supervisor are proposed, which would make supervisors less directly involved in overseeing student teachers and more engaged in interpreting research and providing inservice training for cooperating teachers. (PP)

This study explored expectations, perceptions, and qualities of mentoring relationships between cooperating and student teachers at two institutions, investigating features necessary for successful, satisfactory relationships. Interviews indicated that cooperating teachers tended to function as advisors rather than mentors. Mentoring relationships…

Surveys about student teacher and student counselor supervision examined whether student practicum progress and supervisory strategies were consistent with a developmental model. Progress was consistent with a developmental model for student counselors but not student teachers. Supervision strategies for student counselors and student teachers…