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Monday, July 11, 1966 THE SUMMER ECHO Page Eleven With $15T,661 Subsidies NDEA-NTC Programs Enroll 95 Two summer programs, de signed to prepare teachers for effective work with students who exhibit the marks of pov erty and of other damaging social and cultural circum stances, are being carried out at North Carolina College. The programs are funded by the United States Office of Educa tion and are supervised by Dr. Joseph P. McKelpin, director of the college’s Bureau of Edu cational Research. The two programs—the NDEA Institute for Teachers of Disadvantaged Youth and the National Teacher Corps Pre-Service Education Program —involve 95 participants and a full-time staff of 19. The institute attracted 60 in- service elementary teachers, about 40 who come from the Durham city and Durham coun ty school systems. The other 20 are from other school systems within and outside the state of North Carolina. Some of the states other than North Caro lina from which participants are enrolled are California, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Missis sippi. A federal grant of $81,871 is financing the NDEA Institute. The institute seeks to “help teachers develop skills in work ing with children, and their parents,” and to emphasize “de velopment of preceptual, num ber, and language skills by pupils, development of a great er sense of responsibility by parents for the education of their offspring, and the acquisi tion of greater control by teachers in their exercise of in fluence with pupils and their parents.” Efforts are also made to aid teachers in “understanding the process of image-building by individual pupils and (in) in fluencing the building of more valid world-images and more positive self-images.” NCC has pioneered in edu cating teachers to the needs of pupils reared in poverty and deprivation in holding a sum mer seminar, in 1963, and two summer institutes, in 1964 and 1965, along these lines. The 60 participants in the institute are divided into four groups of 15 each to facilitate organization and scheduling for participation in the practi- cums, group discussions for lectures, and plan building for the course: Compensating for Culturally Induced Behavioral Disabilities. The National Teacher Corps program involves seven teams of five persons who are being prepared to work with youth in the junior high school grades seven through nine. Each of the teams is led by an experi enced teacher selected by the corps and NCC, in some cases on the recommendation of local school system personnel, for his or her potential for leader ship in the preparation of teacher interns. Interns are col lege graduates in arts and sci ences who took no education courses during their degree studies. Supported by a federal grant of $69,790, the pre-service pro gram is designed to prepare the teams for service in the fall in local school systems in the Re search Triangle area. The in terns, while working under the supervision of their team lead er, the experienced teacher, will also pursue graduate work at NCC toward a master’s de gree and class “A” certification as a junior high school teacher. In the use of these teams local school systems are ex pressly prohibited from replac ing regular school personnel. The teams are intended to sup plement such personnel and to enable school administrative units to offer enriched, more meaningful, and effective edu cational opportunities to cul turally disadvantaged youth. The two programs assembled their full enrollment compo nents on Monday, June 13. The NDEA Institute participants will study for seven weeks, end ing their work on Friday, July 29. The NTC pre-service edu cation program will end on Fri day, August 5. Both programs involve practi cal experiences in the classroom as well as in other community and neighborhood situations. The Durham County school sys tem is cooperating with NCC to provide practical experiences in classroom situations for both programs. The out-of-school practical experiences are pro vided in a number of communi ty and neighborhood agencies, notably the target areas of Op eration Breakthrough and other city and county agencies in volved in working with students from deprived backgrounds. Asheville Teacher 1 The NDEA Institute for Teachers of Disadvantaged Youth Vi nmm 9 W The National Teacher Corps Group Sparks Workshop First Time in State Mrs. Lucille P. Burton, biol ogy teacher at the Lee H. Ed wards High School in Asheville, recently influenced the Asheville unit of the teachers association to sponsor a science teachers workshop. Mrs. Burton, currently enroll ed in the Institute for Cooperat ing Teachers at NCC, has pre viously attended the Family Life and Health workshop on the campus. The teachers workshop idea developed as a result of broad experiences she received during a two-summer stint in the biol ogy department of Duke Univer sity. During the study course, the group traveled across the state from the mountains to the sea. As a result of Mrs. Bur ton’s attaining the top average in the class during the first sum mer, she was invited to return for a second summer. In addition to her experiences, which resulted in the workshop featuring expert consultants from Duke University, she or ganized at her high school an advanced biology course; im proved the school grounds; en tered her students in integrated science fairs and contests; and carried her students on extend ed field trips. Cooperating Teachers Study Here The Institute for Cooperat ing Teachers, supported by the Southern Education Founda tion, is a three-week program for supervisors of student teachers and offers three se mester hours of graduate cred it. Among aims of the program, according to Dr. Floyd L. Bass, director of the institute and director of student teaching at NCC, are: —to improve the quality of student teaching experiences for which the college assumes responsibility. —to clarify the desirable be havior patterns of cooperating teachers who participate in these student teaching pro grams. —to identify the character istics of the student teaching role for college students as signed in cooperating public school centers. —to emphasize the coopera tive features of professional laboratory programs. Eight consultants appeared as guest lecturers in special ized areas. The consultants, along with their positions and discussion topics were as fol lows : Howard C. McAllister, principal, Whitted Junior High School, “Organization for Bet- National Teacher Exams Scheduled For July 16 Dr. F. G. Shipman, chairman of the college’s Department of Education, issued a reminder this week that NCC will be a test center for administering the National Teacher Examinations on Saturday, July 16. The all-day tests, which begin at 8 a.m., will be administered in Room 102 of the Education Building. ter Cooperation in Student Teaching Programs”; Mrs. Blondola P. Lucas, dean of girls, Shepard Junior High School, “The Conference as a Technique in the Supervision of Student Teaching”; and Den nis M. McCaskill, principal, Merrick-Moore High School, “The Impact of Student Teach ers on the High School.” Others were Mrs. Cynthia P. Smith, Department of French, Hillside High School, “Preparation by the Cooperat ing Teacher for Supervision of a Student Teacher”; Mrs. Joyce F. Wasdell, director, high school curriculum, Durham County School System, “Central Office Certification of Student Teaching Assignments”; 0. Da vid Poe, principal, Northern High School, “Supervision of Student Teaching Experien ces”; Dr. Catherine T. Dennis, state supervisor, Department of Home Economics, “Improve ment of the Quality of Student Teaching Experiences”; and James E. Parker, director, Au diovisual Center, North Caro lina College, “The Multi-Media Approach in Student Teaching.” COOPERATING TEACHERS—Participants in the college’s Institute for Cooperating Teachers, a six-week program for supervisors of student teachers, are shown in group and class activities. In the left photo, Dr. Floyd Bass, director of the uistitute, helps a group plan observation experiences in student teaching, and in the right photo, he discusses participation experiences. The center photo shows participants planning directed teaching experiences. The institute, which enrolled 16 persons this year, is the first of its kind to be offered by a college in North Carolina.
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