In 2010, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) called for colleges and universities to "turn teacher education upside down" (pg. 2) and focus on clinical experiences, rather than coursework. This charge resulted in major shifts in teacher education programs in the USA as colleges and universities forged new…

Many issues influence reform in teacher preparation including national accountability efforts, professional teaching standards, and local or regional factors. This study examines a rurally-located teacher education program's efforts to reform clinical preparation through co-teaching. Researchers argue that their adaption of the typical one-to-one…

School-university partnerships are promising collaborations for better preparing qualified and competent teachers for the realities of today's diverse American classrooms. Research has been conducted on many aspects of partnerships, but few studies have focused on partnered student teaching placements. In this article, a professor and five of her…

This study attempted to determine whether significant differences exist between the rated performance of student teachers working in teams and those working singly. Male and female trainees were also compared in these categories and the traditional or experimental teacher education programs in which they were enrolled. Forty-eight students…

Described UCLA's University Elementary School and its unique plan for a training component of a credential program. (Author/RK)

Ninety-three documents published between 1960 and 1969 are identified in this annotated bibliography dealing with school-college relations in developing school personnel. The major portion of documents included present information on school-college cooperative programs while other documents, divided into subject areas, cover student teaching,…

This publication presents the guidelines used in developing and implementing the Teacher Internship phase of the Wisconsin Improvement Program. The objectives of this phase include a) provision for a realistic professional assignment for the teacher intern which involves all phases of an educational program; b) provision for an opportunity to put…

THE PROGRAM WILL CONCENTRATE ON EXTENDING SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDINGS THROUGH THE STUDY OF SUCH DISCIPLINES AS SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. IN ADDITION, FIRST-HAND LABORATORY EXPERIENCES WITH CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IN SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY SITUATIONS WILL SUPPLEMENT THE ACADEMIC…

A teacher education course strongly emphasizing field work in classrooms, team teaching, and providing early opportunity for informed career choice is described. The following major objectives of the course are identified and their implementation described: (1) provide students with intensified field experiences very early in and throughout the…

TEPY is a unified approach to the preparation of elementary school teachers which integrates the professional education areas of language arts and reading, mathematics, science, social studies, child development, evaluation, and teaching skills into an instructional format that is team-taught, clinically-oriented, and field-based. The program…