The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 46, Ed. 1 Monday, August 26, 1968 Page: 2 of 8
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Page Two
The ^inkier County News, Kermit. Texas
Monday, August 26, 1968
State to Make Driver Education Available to All Teens
^USTIN — Driver education
—Mong a step-child in the Texas
sohool curriculum — is coming
in|o “it's own,” the Texas Ssfe-
ty| Association notes in rer * .»
in^ on the state’s new master
pljfen for making driver educa-
tion instruction available to all
T&cas teens.
ff’This new comprehensive pro-
gram, featuring advanced tech-
niques in instruction, promises
tcy make driver education one
o$the most ‘sophisticated’ cour-
ses in our school system,” E.
E£ Edmondson, Jr., of Houston,
President Texas Safety Associa-
tion, said and added: “It of-
fers new hope that all Texas
tejfens will receive the type of
diving instruction that will keep
them safe on our streets and
highways.”
^Texas’ master plan for driver
e<|Cucation will be implemented
thjs Fall when a group of highly-
trained teaching assistants and
ttyeir supervisors fan out across
tqe state to inaugurate the state’s
n^w multi-phase program. The
ngw program will not be avail-
able in all schools this year,
b<R in the regions where it will
ba operating, driver education
will be made available to more
stjidents than ever before.
^Teaching assistants are a new
concept in driver education -
and one that many Texas educat-
ors feel will accelerate driver
education instruction in the state.
Texas’ teaching assistants will
work under the supervision of
certified driver education teach-
ers. Their primary job will be
to assist in the laboratory phase
of the program.
•• Both the new teaching assist-
ants and their teacher super-
visors have just completed an
extensive summer training pro-
gram co-sponsored by the Texas
Education Agency and Texas A
University at College Sta-
tion.
'"The University’s project in-
structors are enthusiastic about
the pilot training program and
especially encouraged by the high
chlibre of applicants for teaching
assistants that the program has
attracted.
^Each teaching assistant was
Wand * picked. Applicants were
carefully screened and accepted
dri the recommendation of either
an executive director of an ed-
ucation service center, a su-
perintendent of an accredited
school district, or a supervis-
ory training instructor of a com-
mercial driving training school
licensed by the Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety. All have
Igood driving records and none
j^slve had any corrective action
'taken by the Department in the
past three years.
5£ Among the teaching assistants
jaje a former secretary, a truck
'driver, former policeman,
'plerks, bus drivers and retired
Military personnel. They range
|lb age from 20 to 50. Of the 55
Reaching assistants, 21 are worn-
During the five-week summer
study program, teaching assist-
ants received classroom instruc-
tion in driver education, were
given courses in the latest teach-
ing techniques, schooled in the
operation of driving simulators
ajid taught how to conduct a driv-
ing range and give in-car in-
struction. In addition, they were
given driver training courses
iC improve their basic driving
skills. Patrolmen from the Tex-
ans Department of Public Safety
assisted in the in-car training
program.
<£The state’s 20 new driver edu-
cation supervisors are certified
driver education teachers in good
standing. Most have been teach,
ihg driver education courses in
tt£e state’s public schools. The
new supervisors have been re-
ceiving instruction similar to
tpat given the teaching assist-
ants at A&M, with additional
bourses in supervisory train-
ing, program development and
Administration.
A* The summer study program
Jar teaching assistants and teach-
er supervisors has been describ-
ed as the most comprehensive
cjriver education program ever
Resented. It was designed not
pfoly to provide the additional
personnel so greatly needed to
ojake driver education courses
Available to all Texas teens, but
Also to serve as a medium for
jgpgrading the quality of the cour-
ses presented.
§£The use of teaching assistants,
^Winkler County News
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K&rmit, Texas.
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fere 15 cents per week; $3.75
Igr 6 months and $6 per year,
jtifail subscriptions to street
^dresses or out of town, $6
&er year.
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s® agent for the carriers. Coi-
nfections of subscriptions at other
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authorized.
at 109 South
A, Kermit,
plus new teaching aids, such as
the driving simulator, is expect-
ed to double the number of stu-
dents receiving driver education
in the public schools in the next
two years.
Changes in the Texas driver
education curriculum came about
with the enactment last year of
the Texas Traffic Safety Act,
which made the Governor re-
sponsible for administering a
driver education and training
program for all elgible Texas
youths. The Governor’s new pro-
gram for driver education, in-
cluding the use of teaching as-
sistants, was approved by the
State Board of Education last
November.
The new Texas driver educa-
tion plan brings the state into
close conformance with the Fed-
eral standards for driver educa-
tion programs. A number of other
states are how looking closely
at the Texas plan, which is
unique in many of its areas of
instruction and in the use of
teaching, assistants, as a means
of solving their driver education
program requirements.
Under the recently - revised
driver licensing law in Texas,
teens must be at least age 18
to get an operator’s license if
they have not completed an ap-
proved course in driver educa-
tion, With a course in driver
education, they may obtain an
operator’s license at age 16.
Driver education courses are
being offered to high school stu-
dents beginningat the 10th grade
level.
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Green, Maud. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 46, Ed. 1 Monday, August 26, 1968, newspaper, August 26, 1968; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth980482/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.