This program is made up of three phases. The first phase consists of 7 weeks of on-campus instruction; the second phase consists of a full year of intern teaching; and the third phase is another 7 weeks on campus to review the intern experience. Each student entering the program is expected to know enough of his subject to meet certification…

This report describes the year-long teaching internship at Seattle Pacific College (S.P.C.). Following completion of the sophomore block, a 10 quarter hour block including a daily public school laboratory experience, 75 students were placed in a year-long internship assignment in four public schools. Under the internship plan, after completion of…

The successful implementation of the EPDA, Part E Fellowship Program which provides special training for junior college teachers is discussed. (NF)

Among approaches to meeting the need of agriculture teachers to develop newly specialized agri-business competencies is the emphasis upon field experiences. Two internship programs are discussed. (JK)

This interim report presents operational and evaluational concepts and results and plans of the Teacher Corps from 1966 to 1968 in five sections. Section 1 capsules the objectives of the program: to broaden programs of teacher preparation and to strengthen educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth. The Teacher Corps program is overviewed…

The Junior College Leadership Program, originally meant to supply administrative and research leadership for the growing number of colleges, has expanded its scope to include continuing development of administrators, a doctoral program for administrators and research-oriented educators, and a cooperative internship for instructors. Visits to…

To train teachers to translate learning insights into creative curriculums, a more intensive school-college relationship and more meaningful teacher evaluation processes are needed. In a pre-intern phase, the university should provide the teacher candidate with experience in devising curricular models to fit his own needs, help him develop and…

An innovative 30-hour internship seminar has become a core part of the University of Regina's teacher preparation program. It successfully provides experiences to help cooperating teachers and interns: (1) build interpersonal relationships, (2) increase interns' professional growth, and (3) learn and practice supervisory processes. (JD)

Multiple methods are advocated as a way of understanding and documenting the complex tasks and relationships of the mentoring process. The methods used in a multisite study of 35 mentors and 20 interns in their induction year are described. Preliminary results indicate that mentoring is not a linear process. (SLD)

The purpose of this paper was to examine the cross-national performance of fourth- and eighth-grade students in mathematics on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003. The TIMSS assessment data were used to identify nations that have a competitive edge in the critical area of mathematics. The Trends in International…

The Education Professions developing Act of 1967 (EPDA) provides funds to assist institutions of higher learning in educating personnel to serve as teachers, administrators, or educational specialists in the junior colleges. The University of Hawaii was among 47 institutions awarded funds for junior college fellowships. These 2-year fellowships…

This report found that Corps members enabled the schools to give more individualized instruction, provide expanded classroom and extracurricular activities, and improve the ratio of students to teachers. Corps members introduced English as a second language, and science and algebra taught in Spanish. School officials and teachers believed that the…

The first part of this paper deals with the portal school as conceptually conceived in the Georgia Educational Model and defined as a group of schools which maintain close working relationships with a university and desire to participate in an exemplary teacher education program. The function of the school is to provide transition from the…