Internships for Teachers at Half-Load and Half-Pay: An Hypothesis

Abstract

First-year teaching is a trying ex perience for anyone. For the unusu ally confident and mature individual, this first year of professional work presents many challenges and prob lems. For the somewhat over-conscien tious and idealistic, although poten tially promising person, the achieve ments experienced may seem out of proportion to the failures, with the resulting decision to quit teaching for some other more lucrative and less harassing field of work. The au thor, in the article presented here, makes an interesting attack on, the problem of how to keep our over burdened and under-experienced be ginning teachers with the profession. Mr. Bergstrom, formerly a public school teacher and a supervisor of student teaching at both the Univer sity of Minnesota and Western Wash ington College of Education, is now Coordinator of Instructional Services for the University City (Missouri) Public Schools.—EDITOR.