Campus residence an essential part of an effective doctoral program. (JH)

The paper describes the changing preservice teacher education structure instituted at the State University College of Arts and Sciences at Potsdam, New York to comply with the trends dictated by P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Ten competency clusters are listed as the basis for the regular teacher education program,…

This document from the Training Teacher Trainers (TTT) project, which sought to improve the quality of the educational system through training personnel and developing programs, is divided into five major sections. Section one--The Director's Report--presents a detailed description of the total project, its major structures, processes, and…

The "Epistle" is the publication forum of the professors of reading teacher educators, a special interest group of the International Reading Association. This issue contains three chapters: in "My Impressions of the New Doctorate in Reading," Wayne Otto reports on his views concerning aspirations, professional competence, research ability, and…

This paper is based on the author's direct experiences with the Hunter College TTT program, on visits to other TTT projects, and on conversations with personnel participating in them. Projects visited included those at Temple University, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, San Fernando State College,…

This document explains the need for a Specialist in Continuing Education (SCE), outlines the expected role and responsibilities of an SCE, and describes a program being developed to train SCE's. The SCE is envisioned as a teacher educator who will work with inservice teachers in small groups in a variety of ways to continually improve their…

This report describes an investigation of theory and research relevant to the development of program I: Specialist in Continuing Education (SCE), a program to train teacher educators who will work with inservice teachers in small groups to improve their professional skills. The major portion of the report consists of position papers written by six…

This project began as a united effort by Georgia Southern College, Savannah State College, Armstrong State College, Augusta College, and Middle Georgia College, all located within 100 miles of the headquarters at Statesboro. The project was designed to improve teacher education programs by making research an integral part of the work, assisting…

This three-volume report describes a research project which had the following objectives: 1) to improve the orientation programs for cooperating teachers who work with student teachers; 2) to improve procedures for selection and utilization of cooperating teachers in schools which accept student teachers; and 3) to develop experimental, innovative…

This Institute was held to provide inservice training for teachers, administrators, and teacher educators in Nova Scotia. The papers presented by the seven consultants are 1) "An Overview of the Nongraded School," and "The Curriculum of the Nongraded High School," by B. Frank Brown; 2) "Social Studies in the Nongraded School," by Maurice Recchia;…

Each of five papers describe a model for teacher education. "Levels of Involvement: A Descriptive Theory Model," identifies and examines seven levels: 1) classroom settings; 2) extended classroom settings; 3) contrived settings; 4) real settings, strictly controlled; 5) real settings, partially controlled; 6) real settings, loosely controlled; and…

Investigated knowledge and attitudes of 142 undergraduate and graduate education students at Hofstra University toward mainstreaming. Respondents expressed generally positive attitudes and placed importance on the need to know more about specified areas, while rating themselves as lacking in such knowledge. Discussed implications for teacher…

Author describes her efforts to model effective teaching behavior. (GB)