The program is a win-win situation for everyone involved, including the students, because the district is able to retain talented, enthusiastic and dedicated teachers. Coping with Class Size Reduction in California Steve Turley and Karen Nakai Feb. 1998, Vol. School districts began to offer paid positions to noncredentialed university students who were about to begin their student teaching assignments, granting them emergency permits. Teacher education faculties were forced to develop new ways of supporting those students who chose to accept these offers and sought to have their emergency teaching accepted as their culminating field experience in lieu of traditional student teaching. Surveys of both traditional student teachers and emergency permit teachers indicated that while traditional student teachers were more satisfied with their decision than their emergency permit colleagues, neither type of field experience clearly outweighed the other.
Key questions remain to be answered, however.
The relationships among school districts, individual schools, and teacher education faculties must be clarified. The impact on the children taught by the noncredentialed teachers must be determined. Teacher education faculties must decide whether to permanently adopt emergency permit teaching as an option for their students' culminating field experiences. The Proof Is In Performance Gloria A. Neubert and James B. Binko Feb. 1998, Vol. The researchers found that the PDS approach was more effective than the regular program in preparing teacher candidates to maintain classroom discipline, use technology effectively for instruction, and reflect on their teaching.