The Teacher Recruitment and Internship Project for Success (TRIPS) is an intern-mentor alternative program designed to attract academically talented foreign language, mathematics, and science teachers in Georgia. TRIPS teachers receive summer training in pedagogy, and then are involved in a year-long internship under the direction of a mentor…

THIS IS A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON POSSIBLE AND ACTUAL USES OF VIDEO TAPE MATERIAL AND PROCESSES TO IMPROVE TEACHER EFFICIENCY, COMPETENCY, AND INSIGHT. EMPHASIZED ARE INDIVIDUALIZED AND SMALL GROUP USES OF TELEVISION, PLUS ITS POTENTIAL AS A RESEARCH AND DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENT. THREE MAIN USES OF TELEVISION ARE DISCUSSED--AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR LIVE…

The Rural Education Improvement Project of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools presents its second annual report relative to a 5-year rural education improvement program funded by the Noyes Foundation and the Danforth Foundation. The purposes of the program are reported as (1) the identification of effective means of interrupting the…

This is a collection of reports on innovative practices in student teaching programs. The label "innovative" is justified on the basis of the investigation's scope. Identification of innovative student teaching practices was accomplished by contacting chief state school officers, chairmen and members of state commissions on teacher…