During the past 14 years, the elementary rural teacher training program at Brigham Young University (BYU), Utah, has successfully provided an 8-week student teaching experience which has assisted more than 250 prospective teachers in comparing their lifestyle and interests with those of rural America. Student participants are required to live with a rural family while student teaching. Supervision of student teachers is shared between local, district, and university educational agencies, with BYU having 80% of the responsibility. Reciprocal incentives and benefits for cooperating schools include use of student teachers as substitutes and classroom aides, improved classroom organization and preparation by supervising teachers, improved rapport between BYU and cooperating school districts, and increased inservice teacher education delivered to rural communities. The program's financial structure is based on tuition income from rural student teachers and forfeiture of honoraria traditionally paid by the university to supervising teachers. These funds support travel and honoraria expenses to provide extra incentive to BYU program supervisors who must regularly travel several hundred miles a week to visit students participating in the program. (NEC)