JUNIOR COLLEGE INFORMATION

To handle the thousands of new students expected to flood the nation's community colleges, many more master teachers will be needed if the potential of high-risk students is to be maximized. 5uch teachers are not being created by present pre-service and in-service training or being developed at colleges and universities. The place to make subject-area specialists into talented instructors is the community college itself. A first year of teaching can be a metamorphosis into quality teaching through a highly instructive internship. This internship model suggests that first-year teachers spend an intensive month in pre-service training'under the direction of a Professional Development Officer. They should then have a light teaching load the first semester to allow time for extensive in-service training with a master teacher and progress in the second semester to more teaching responsibilities with exposure to additional master teachers and training. An example of dollar cost and long-term savings applied to Contra Costa Junior College District (Califo, lia) is provided along with specifications for implementation of the plan. (Mt.U.S, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH