The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1962 Page: 2 of 6
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The Campus Chat
Friday. March 2, It62
In Schools of Three Counties
Student Teachers Take to Hi
In Pursuit of On-the-Job Experience
I0KTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE
DENTON, TEXAS.
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4 V>Uw by BETTY LINN NOLL
ABOARD one of the nine student teacher station wagons at 6 a.m., these girls leave
for a day of practical experience in teachi ng.
What Price Space?
Dorm Residents Pay
To Rearrange Rooms
Residents of West Dormitory were
informed last week that two men would
be allowed to occupy a room usually
meant for three. Rut to do so they
would have to pay $10, a fee for oc-
cupying the room at less than normal
capacity.
Men students who live in the Quad-
rangle were placed two in a room this
semester because of the usual decrease
in dormitory applicants that occurs
every spring.
These Quad residents have been told
that they cannot rearrange or remove
any furniture to make more space in
their rooms or they, too, must part
with *10.
That is, no beds may be dismantled
and stored or braced vertically against
the wall. No desks may be put on top
of one another.
One of the things dormitory resi-
dents desire most in their rooms is
space. Many students have record play-
ers, typewriters, trunks, golf clubs or
television sets that they must store in
their rooms. These must be handy,
ready for use at all times.
Men living three in a room are
cramped for space even with these few
items. Girls, who have dressers and
tables, are even more crowded.
In Future Misunderstandings
Text Whim Could Strain
Student Budget Further
Mrs. John Boyd, who writes history
textbooks under her maiden name of
Edna McGuire, announced Tuesday that
she will make changes in the next print-
ing of one of her books to smooth out
a misunderstanding over its references
to the United Nations.
The book, a fifth grade text , has been
criticized by some parents of Dallas
school children for intimating that the
United Nations won World War II.
Their basis for criticism is several ref-
erences to the Allies as United Nations
forces.
Mrs. Boyd maintains, and historical
sources back her up, that the Allies
did call themselves the United Nations,
although not in the same sense of to-
day's U.N. organization. But she ad-
mits that such references might be con-
fusing to the present generation. School
Superintendent W. T. White of Dallas
said that confusion of terms was a
minor criticism of the book which could
be cleared up by individual teachers.
But this rather petty incident could
have some far-reaching effects. Stu-
dents, particularly those in college, are
already plagued by the problem of text-
books' being periodically updated so
that existing editions become obsolete
and can't be resold.
In light of the Boyd incident, al-
though it occurred on the public school
level, student textbook-buyers may now
have to face the prospect of even cur-
rent texts' becoming obsolete merely
because of the whim of a few people
who happen to misunderstand the word-
ing in a particular book.
—Nancy Keil
Boom 104 Janmaltam Building
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The '32 Ford V-8 jounced along the road
to Ponder. Its driver, one of th* first student
teacher supervisors at North Texas, Carl
Matthews, chatted about the day's assign-
ment with his passengers, one of whom was <t
student named Witt Blair,
North Texas had just expanded its teacher-
training program to include student teaching
in such outlying schools us Krum, Justin and
fonder.
Today this one auto has been replaced by
nine station wagons and a bus, which carry
more than 100 education students daily to
student teaching assignments in three coun-
ties.
At 7 :'!0, 1<) iuk) i o'clock each school day,
the vehicles load up their passengers, then
return to the campus at. the end of classes.
Roughly a third of the <172 students from
North Texas who are student teaching in
178 schools in this urea are transported under
the system.
Loggers Flag
And more than one tardy student has chased
the wagons down the street to Hag down his
ride.
In 1982, as now, the system provided a
daily adventure for its riders.
Dr. Blair, now dean of the School of Educa-
tion, recalls that he and his driver in 1932,
now NT8t "s president, "had a great time."
"The roads weren't paved then," he snid,
"and we really stirred up a cloud of dust."
Today the vehicles are driven by students,
and they never forget the little incidents that
happen on their trips.
Reporter Kay Specgle, Denton, nnd pho-
tographer Belly I.inn Noll, OdcKtia. went
along with a group of student teachers
In Carrollton. There the> observed the
North Texas student tcachinc program al
work on both the elementary and high
school levels.
Several years ago one student, hopping out
of the station wagon to see why it was smok-
ing, found that someone had stolen the ra-
diator during the night.
Since then the wagons have been kept at
the Service Center to prevent such thefts.
One member of the education faculty who
called the wagons "buses" told one of her stu-
dents tu take the "bus" to Lee School in Den-
ton one afternoon.
Soon afterward pandemonium struck when
the driver of the 2fi-passenger bus discovered
that the vehicle had disappeared while he was
on a coffee break.
When the girl returned with the bus, ho
asked Iter how she knew how to drive it. She
explained that she was a farm girl from 'way
hack and had driven tractors and trucks all
her life. So she didn't think twice about driv-
ing a bus.
Despite such minor problems, North Texas
administrators feel the program is accomplish-
ing its purposes; and the university, seeking
to make its teacher training as practical as
possible, has expanded its student-teaching
program to the point that today it is the larg-
est of its type in the state.
After almost 80 years of cooperation b«<-
If students art1 distributed in three-
somes. some rooms become empty.
These empty rooms become dust traps,
uncared for bv students, who are re-
quired regularly to sweep and mop their
own rooms.
There is no danger that students re-
arranging or dismantling furniture in
their room will misplace it. Each bed
and desk in every dormitory has painted
on it, in bright red. the dorm name,
room number and area of the room to
which it belongs.
When he enrolls each student pays a
$5 damage fee which is used by the
university partly to defray the expenses
of the infrequent replacement of furni-
ture.
This fee is not refunded to the stu-
dent until he leaves the university,
which is usually from two to four years.
Yet now he is forced to pay twice as
much just for one semester's privileges
which cost the university nothing.
The drop in dormitory occupancy this
semester was not in proportion to the
drop in over-all university figures. It
was substantially greater.
Local apartment builders And an
eager market in dissatisfied dormitory
dwellers.
—Temple Pouncey
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DOUBLING AS SONG LEADER, studsnt teacher Patsy Eckles, Mineral Wellt, conduct*
her first grade class in the singing of some simple tunes. Although not quite A Cap-
pella Choir material yet, the children are enthusiastic in their performance.
tween the university and public school sy -
tem outside of Denton, an NTSI' student
teacher is hh accepted a figure in these schools
as one of the permanent staff members.
The program is supervised by Dr. C. M.
Clarke, director of teacher education.
Although designed primarily to help the
future teacher, it also aids the schools that
participate.
Dale B. Davis, principal of Carrollton High
School, sees the student teaching program as a
"good thing for us to have because, after all.
we're looking for good prospects. , . We are
trying to hire those who do a good job before
they can get away from here,"
Mrs. Mild red < ompton of the I'arrolJton
faculty added that the students are energetic,
have new ideas and appeal to the high school
pupils.
Stir Things Up
"Sometimes they jolt us out of our old
ways and stir things up a little." she said.
Under the program, the regular instructor
supervises the student, teacher.
"The first few weeks I have to help them
get started," said Mrs. Pauline Coition of
Valwood Elementary School in Carrollton, "but
after thut they understand and they will help
me."
Va I wood's principal, l>eRoy 1' Montgomery,
pointed out that his school now has four
teachers who started out as student teach-
ers under the NTSU program.
Originally, the student teaching was done
entirely in the North Texas Demonstration
School (now the Laboratory School), where
Dr. Matthews completed his own student
teaching. But by 1928 the teaching program
had grown too large for one school. Dr. Mat
thews and Dr. Harold Brcnholtz of the ed-
ucation faculty were the first teachers to sup-
ervise students in the Denton Public School
District off the campus. Then in 1932 the pro-
gram was expanded into the county schools.
As transportation and roads improved and
the demand increased for more schools in
which to place student teachers, the program
began to include schools in such towns as
Gainesville, Birdville and Grapevine.
Today many students also live off the cam
pus and teach in systems -uch as I'alias and
Port Worth
Schools Co-Sign
The university co-signs written agreement#
with the schools in which students are placed.
But the only school over which the university
has administrative power is the Laboratory
School, which is on NTSU property although
it is officially a part of the Denton Indepen-
dent School District.
The college supervisor, school principal and
the participating teacher ordinarily confer be-
fore a student is placed to achieve the best
possible teaching situation for each individual.
These supervisors are mostly members of
the education faculty who also teach methods
courses or other curriculum closely related
to student teaching. However, a few are mem-
bers of the home economics, business, indus-
trial arts, speech therapy and music faculties.
What do the North Texas students think of
the program and the daily commuting?
Karen Jean Kinberger of Katy doesn't mind
the ride. "We're all so excited about teach-
ing," she commented, "that all w« do is talk
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SUICK TO LEARN, two first graders rait* their hands to show
at they know the answer to Miss Ecltles' question. In their ex-
perience as student teachers the education majors art able to
SOO if the tcach^n^ principles llioy learned In the North Texas
classroom really hold true in a public school classroom. Practice
teaching also gives them more confidence in their abilities.
ADVICE to the individual student charac-
terixes the teaching of Jack Haesly, loft,
in his high school art class.
about what we're doing in our classes "
She thinks that students teaching in the
lower grades have less difficulty with their
pupils than do the high school teachers. Miss
Kinberger still remembers the time when one
of her second-graders prayed that the chil
dren would he <|iiiel and good for Miss "Ham
burger."
Dean Blair foresees continued expansion of
the student teaching program More students
will be going tu the rapidly expanding school
systems south of Denton, such as the Lewis
vllle and Carrollton systems, he predicted.
But he said it is unlikely that students will
be transported to any points more distant than
they now teach, because >>f the time involved.
By late March, however, he said the uni-
versity will add another station wagon to help
transport students during the next nine-weuk
teaching session
News in Review
China Schools
To Emphasize
Straight Study
Emphasis on political activity in Com-
munist Chinese schools and colleges is
being rapidly replaced by stress on hard
study. Now teachers and students are
being urged to catch up with the rest
of the world in their lessons.
But they are struggling against
poverty. The Associated Press reports
that school buildings are falling into
disrepair and both equipment and books
are in short supply.
The Peiping People's Daily explained
that the new vogue is essential if China
is to "catch up with the world's ad-
vanced scientific and technical levels
and build up socialism and commun-
ism."
Previously, students had been en-
couraged tt> leave their books for per-
iods of "productive lalior." One univer-
sity professor said that "political and
social activities took up most of the
teachers' time. The teachers could
hardly concentrate on teaching."
A Chinese newspaper termed the new
emphasis on scholarship a "serious
political task."
Dilapidated classrooms and out-of-
date libraries are the major problems,
explained one professor who escaped
across the border last fall,
He said the "practice of economy"
has permitted buildings to deteriorate
in bad weather without repairs,
"The colleges and departments bor-
rowed apparatus from each other—ad-
ditions of equipment were not allowed,"
he noted.
"Owing to the shortage of paper, few
books were published and the libraries
also seldom added new hooks to their
collections," he concluded.
The new program has placed empha-
sis on the study of foreign languages,
the Associated Press said. However, the
Communist regime always has attached
considerable imjiortance to the teach-
ing of English. Now the language cur-
riculum is being broadened with in-
creased instruction in German, French
and Japanese.
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