Charles R. Coble

University-School Teacher Education Partnerships in North Carolina

Abstract Prospective teachers spending a year in classrooms … Teachers and professors studying problems that teachers face every day … Teachers co-teaching methods courses with university professors … These are some of the exciting outcomes of university-school teacher education partnerships in North Carolina.[1] Current interest in university-school collaboration in teacher education is high in the United States. The University-School Teacher Education Partnerships (USTEP) program, under way in North Carolinas 15 state-supported institutions that prepare teachers, is such a collaboration. The partnerships have been supported annually by the North Carolina legislature with

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1.8 million (Coble, 1999a). The involved universities prepare roughly 70% of the teachers in the state each year. USTEP now is more than five years old, and we can begin to report some of its experiences, problems and successes.