Tennessee Tech offers a graduate level analysis and supervision of teaching course that includes a practicum experience for prospective and practicing teacher supervisors and mentors. This practicum coincides with an undergraduate pedagogy practicum in order to provide opportunities for students to enhance supervisory and mentoring skills. The…

EPISODE TEACHING IS THE PRACTICE OF INITIATING STUDENT TEACHERS INTO TEACHING THROUGH THEIR OWN PERFORMANCE OF THE TEACHING ACT AS COPROFESSIONALS RATHER THAN AS DEPENDENTS. AN EPISODE IS DEFINED AS A SELF-CONTAINED EVENT, NOT PART OF AN ONGOING PROGRAM, BUT APPROPRIATE TO THE AGE LEVEL AND GENERAL INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN IN QUESTION. THE STUDENT…

Article investigated what really constitutes an effective cooperating teacher and what student teachers recognize as a good experience. (Editor/RK)

Teaching quality calls for good teacher education programs and supervision in student teaching. (GB)

Resources dealing with preservice teacher education are presented in an annotated bibliography of ten citations from the ERIC database. (LH)

A veteran cooperating teacher suggests that the key to a successful student teaching experience is organization and preparation, including setting objectives for the supervising teacher and student teacher, providing school orientation and a work area for the student teacher, helping pupils adjust to a student teacher, and accessibility. (CB)

Studied the perceptions of 36 cooperating teachers taking a course in supervision aimed at supervising student teachers. These cooperating teachers seemed to favor a trial-and-error approach or a developmental model of the supervision of a practicum for preservice teachers, in contrast to the reflective approach usually favored by university…

This paper describes the main gains resulting from student teachers' first contact with the teaching profession. The Inventory of Experiences and Perceptions at Teaching Practice (IEPTP) was used to assess the range of experiences of a sample of 224 student teachers on five dimensions of teaching practice: (1) learning and professional…

Providing effective feedback and supervision for student teachers is an important area of concern. The two primary sources of feedback, the cooperating teacher and the university supervisor, are somewhat limited in scope. At the same time, various approaches used successfully with experienced classroom teachers have been rarely tried with student…

BRIEF LITERATURE SURVEYS COVER JOURNAL ARTICLES AND DISSERTATIONS IN FIVE FIELDS--(1) PROBLEMS OF STUDENT TEACHERS, (2) FOLLOWUP STUDIES OF 1ST-YEAR TEACHERS, (3) VALUE OF STUDENT TEACHING AS SEEN BY STUDENT TEACHERS, TEACHERS, AND ADMINISTRATORS, (4) CHANGES DURING STUDENT TEACHING AS MEASURED BY PRETESTS AND POST-TESTS, AND (5) NEEDED RESEARCH…

This study deals with the identification of situational components and supervisory practices that lead to the development or reinforcement of a strong, positive self-concept on the part of the student teacher. Included is a brief literature review of research studies concerned with identifying various situational components involved in student…

The object of this study was to assess costs, practical problems, and personal attitudes connected with using videotape recording (VTR) as an adjunct to in-person supervision of student teachers. Student teachers' performance in the classroom was recorded by videotape technicians once or twice during their student teaching experience, and the…

CLOSE COOPERATION IS NEEDED BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ENGAGED IN PREPARING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS IF STUDENT TEACHING IS TO BE AN EFFECTIVE PHASE OF THIS TRAINING. MEANINGFUL SUPERVISION OF THE STUDENT TEACHER REQUIRES LONG-RANGE PLANNING BETWEEN THE SUPERVISING TEACHER IN THE COLLEGE AND THE COOPERATING TEACHER IN THE SCHOOL WHO, AS…

This author contends that student-teacher supervision cannot be done effectively in traditional ways. He discusses five myths of supervision and explains a program developed at Portland (Ore.) State University that puts the emphasis where it should be--on the supervising teacher. (Editor)