Critiques papers on good student teacher placement and supervision, discussing the need for interpersonal support for all participants in the student teaching experience and challenging key players to consider the implications of the basic premises about student teaching for each of the participants in the enterprise. (SM)

Writing teachers and researchers collaborate in the Written Literacy Forum at Michigan State University to: (1) heighten teachers' awareness of the complexity of writing; (2) stimulate discussion across grade levels; and (3) focus research on areas concerning teachers. Discussion formats and inservice activities are described, and materials…

This paper discusses the use of field experience in teacher education and how it can be augmented by phenomenological case studies. It summarizes a particular case study involving three teacher education classes, noting that reflective analysis of cases can prepare students to observe in the field. (SM)