The Office of Field Studies at the University of Tennessee Knoxville has implemented a research-based, collaborative-interactive student teacher supervision program featuring the provision of objective feedback during the preobservation conference, observation, and postobservation conference. (CB)

Student teacher supervisors can use the Effective Supervision Guide to facilitate the organization of data generated from monitoring student teachers. The guide's components include: baseline performance; behaviors needing remediation; remediation strategies; evaluation criteria; and commencement and completion dates for remediating behaviors. (CB)

Studied the effect of a six-hour training program on high school cooperating science teachers. The student teachers in this experiment rated their cooperating teachers as making more comments more often about the student teacher's planning and questioning techniques if the cooperating teacher had the training program. (MLH)

A student teacher is often liable to be placed in a conflictive situation between faculty consultants and cooperating teachers who have widely differing conceptions of the role of the ideal teacher. None of the possible responses of a student teacher are conducive to effective learning, especially the decision to "get by." This conflict can be…

This study examined the cognitive behavior of supervising teachers and their student teachers working in a conference situation. A modified version of the Aschner-Gallagher classification system was used to code videotapes of conferences held by 15 elementary school teachers and their student teachers. Some of the 15 teachers had previously taken…

Results of a statewide study on student teaching programs in Indiana indicated that school supervisors needed help in improving the quality of on-site supervision. One improvement strategy was the use of school supervisor evaluation as an inservice tool. (JN)

Goodlad discusses his comprehensive plan for reforming undergraduate teacher education, abolishing state-mandated courses, instituting state examinations modeled after law and medicine exams, and creating unified faculty groups devoting primary attention to teacher education. First, some basic changes in organization, student-teacher placement and…

Summarizes a study following 16 teachers who had completed a graduate-level course in clinical supervision through their experiences as cooperating teachers paired with full-time student teachers. Although all cooperating teachers implemented some aspects of clinical supervision, they did not conduct clinical cycles often, due to time constraints.…

This study examined the perceptions of a sample of supervising teachers of interns in regard to selected aspects of the internship experience and also in regard to their interns. A total of 267 elementary and secondary school teachers who had supervised a student teacher in Spring 1985 responded to a questionnaire about the interns and the…

The principal's role in the process of inducting student teachers is important. This paper functions as a guide to show principals how they can facilitate positive student teacher experience by working to minimize problems. Initially the principal should review district policy with the student teacher, introduce the student teacher to key…

Fifty-four male and female student teachers' preferences for direct or nondirect supervision and male or female supervisors were sampled by recording their reactions to one of four randomly assigned supervisory conferences, which differed in relation to the direct or nondirect behavior of the supervisor and to the supervisor's sex. A significant…

This study attempted to ascertain how adequately student teachers are supervised by college supervisors and supervising teachers. Questions to be answered were as follows: a) How do student teachers rate the adequacy of supervision given them by college supervisors and supervising teachers? and b) Are there significant differences between ratings…

Four separate studies compared the efficacy of remote versus face-to-face supervision of home economics student teachers and teachers. The first study involved case studies of two interns, their cooperating teachers, and college supervisors, who tested an audio-phone method of supervision. Costs were found to be lessened, and all persons involved…

The difficulties encountered by handicapped student teachers can be somewhat alleviated by examining others' personal beliefs and attitudes concerning the ability of the handicapped individual to teach and cope effectively within the educational environment. Possible adaptations to facilities, assistance, and requirements are discussed. (JN)

The author presents and discusses the comments of a group of student teachers on feedback and how they use it to monitor the development of their teaching skills. (Author/SJL)