The Special Education Program at West Virginia University offers graduate degree/teacher certification programs in mental retardation, learning disabilities, and behavior disorders. Practicum experiences are included in the program, and have created a need for faculty supervision that could not be met by existing resources. A program was designed to provide training for field-based cooperating teachers to develop their observation, supervisory, and evaluation skills. The training consisted of three weekly sessions which included lecture/discussion activities, guided practice, and probe assessments. The practicum experience is organized around competency-based teacher education principles, and 50 target competencies must be demonstrated by the student and documented by the cooperating teacher. University-based practicum supervisors maintain periodic contact with students and cooperating teachers, observe and evaluate students in classroom settings, and assign final grades. Proposed evaluation procedures for the project include ratings of the cooperating teachers' supervisory performance, data analysis of the competencies demonstrated by students, observation of students by cooperating teachers and supervisors, etc. (Forty-one references are listed.) (JDD)