Psychotherapeutic systems derived from psychoanalytic-learning and from client-centered models both predict that subjects' openness to environmental feedback will increase in the course of therapy. It was hypothesized that counseled teachers would become more open to feedback from pupils than control teachers, specifically that counseled teachers…

This paper reviews several studies which analyze the intelligence, personality characteristics, and motivations of prospective and inservice teachers and compares them to persons working in other fields. It finds that the general stereotype of the teacher as being intellectually inferior to individuals in other fields is not supported by the…

Describes a program at the University of Northern Colorado which provides undergraduate students in education with experiences in public school classrooms prior to teaching. (PCB)

Schools of education have failed in attempting to alert undergraduate and graduate teaching majors concerning alternative careers or to formally assist them in making or altering career decisions. (DS)

Prospective teachers judged the creativity of eleventh grade students' modified essay compositions on the following subjects; mirrors; if the schools should close; or the new woman. Higher creativity ratings were associated with two factors: number of sentences, and number of novel ideas expressed. (Author/GDC)

Academic majors (by school) are compared for deaf and hearing students registered at California State University, Northridge, for the Fall semester of 1976. A greater proportion of deaf than hearing students study liberal arts at the undergraduate level and education at the graduate level. (SW)

The authors examine long-term trends in agricultural education enrollment factors. They compared 1980 and 1985 students on factors influencing them to select that major and relative importance of factors. Both groups wanted to "get into other jobs." The largest shift was in the people influential in the student's decision. (CH)

An examination of the relationship of faculty levels of moral reasoning to that of students at various stages of a teacher education program revealed that no group of students (including graduate level) exhibited faculty members' abilities to recognize principled moral judgments and that the student groups did not differ from each other in such…

The University of North Dakota's Center for Teaching and Learning has developed a program to help monocultural preservice teachers achieve increased understanding of others and participate in activities which expand their cultural horizons in terms of personal identification, comfort, openness, and sensitivity toward diverse cultural groups and…

Since much of the success of a student's early field experience seems to be the result of the quality and quantity of interaction with pupils and the cooperating teacher, this study examined differences in interactions of elementary and secondary early field experience students. Results are discussed. (MT)

This article offers systematic procedures for designing and conducting follow-up studies of teacher education graduates. Also offered are recommendations for formulating instrument questions and scales, determining questionnaire length and appearance, writing the cover letter, planning the follow-up reminder procedures, and comparing respondents…

Investigated knowledge and attitudes of 142 undergraduate and graduate education students at Hofstra University toward mainstreaming. Respondents expressed generally positive attitudes and placed importance on the need to know more about specified areas, while rating themselves as lacking in such knowledge. Discussed implications for teacher…

Preservice teachers should be familiar with the many instructional uses of computers. These teachers must experience the various instructional applications of computers to appreciate the potential and limitations of computers for improving the quality of classroom instruction. (CJB)

Reports the results of a survey of 215 college freshmen education majors. Discusses four of their reasons for selecting a teaching career: family influence, positive and negative examples by their teachers, experience, and personal benefits. (SB)

H. Prentice Baptiste presents personal theories on multicultural education and the role of higher education institutions in an interview with the author. The pluralistic thrust in education is discussed. (DF)