Abstract
When to begin formal professional preparation, what experiences to include, how to integrate these requirements with all of the other requirements in a bac calaureate program—these are widely dis puted points among teacher-education specialists and leaders in higher educa tion througout the nation. In New York, one of the early states to adopt the four- year preservice requirement for the stand ard elementary-school-teaching certificate, much pioneering has been done. Mr. Behrens, Chairman of the Department of Education, State Teachers College, Ge neseo, describes the functional plan devel oped and in operation at that institution.
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