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THE SUMMER ECHO
Monday, July 11, 1966
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ACTIVITIES PROGRAM—The Activities Program in
Elementary Education is a course required for elementary
education majors in pursuit of a master’s degree and has
two divisions—the intermediate and primary levels. Mrs.
Ruth Anderson is in charge of the intermediate division
and Mrs. Willa Bryant supervises the elementary section.
The top left photo shows students in the intermediate
section making objects to be “sold” in the market place
in connection with studies of Mexico. Standing are a
student aide, Christyal Brown, and two in-service teachers.
Cecelia Barnes and Alexna McDonald. The center scene
shows, in the primary section, Mrs. Hilda H. Farmer
conducting a reading activity on the adventures of Pedro,
a Mexican boy. Fifth grade pupils, in the right photo,
are designing booklets for preserving their written work.
The booklets are being made by using Mexican design
motifs and are decorated with spatter paints. Teachers
are Mrs. Dorothy D. Baird and Mrs. Vivian Austin.
On the bottom row, the first photo shows Mrs. Gladys
B. Hargrove helping pupils find books related to their
Mexican unit theme. Mrs. Mary R. Wilkerson, in the
second photo, teaches students “the magic of mathe
matical symbols in relation to sets and subjects.” In the
third photo, students assigned to a research project are
being assisted by Mrs. Winnie \V. Ray. In photo four,
children are weaving baskets and working on other handi
craft projects under the supervision of Mrs. Earnie G.
Pearce.
Activities Program: Practice And Theory
The Activities Program in
Elementary Education, taken by
elementary education majors in
their third year of the Master
of Education program, offers
“unique experiences involving
both practice and theory,” re
ports Dr. James T. Guines, vis
iting associate professor of edu
cation, who directs the program.
The course, which enrolls 29
in-service teachers, has partici
pants who are graduates of ten
different colleges and who work
in South Carolina and North
Carolina. The program in pre
vious summers has enrolled as
many as 50 persons.
In addition to Dr. Guines,
who teaches regularly at St.
Augustine’s College, Raleigh,
members of the staff are Mrs.
Willa Bryant, instructor of edu
cation at NCC, who supervises
the primary section, and Mrs.
Ruth Anderson, visiting in
structor from the Roanoke, Va.,
city school system, who super
vises the intermediate section.
The three comprise what they
like to call, “the Team.”
Some features of the program
are the employment of team
teaching, unit teaching, and un
graded primary and interme
diate sections.
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NURSERY SCHOOL—Mrs. Paula B. Mack, instructor of home economics
at North Carolina College, is the supervisor of the college’s summer
pre-school program. In the top left photo Mrs. Mack is seen assisting
students working with blocks—one of the basic play materials for pre
schoolers. The children, counterclockwise from her right, are Karen Mc-
Koy, Gayle Plummer, Katura Williams, Heyward Benson, and Cameron
Benson. In the top right photo, Mrs. Inez McKoy, a graduate assistant,
directs three boys working with blocks which provide an opportunity
for creativity. The boys are David Woodard, Gene Tatum, Charles
Blackmon, and Heyward Benson.
On the bottom, Mrs. McKoy guides the pre-schoolers in table-top
operations. Left to right are Myron Jones, Anisha Rogers, Heyward
Benson, and Darryl Yon. Mrs. Mack, in the next photo, observes as four
children produce spontaneous paintings in exercise of their artistic tal
ents. Left to right are David Woodard, Laurie Fein, Lisa Teasley, and
Kathy Thorne.
Participants take turns in
teachingr in either the primary
or intermediate sections of the
program and are also aided by
a theory session taught by Dr.
Guines. In this session, they
have opportunities to review the
research and discuss the basic
features of ungraded schooling,
team teaching, and unit teach
ing.
NCC Course Offers
Alcoholism Facts
The Summer Studies on Facts
About Alcohol, according to Dr.
Howard M. Fitts Jr., “is de
signed to develop better under
standing of the problem of al
coholism—among teachers in
particular, lay and professional
workers within communities
who happen to work with alco
holics and their families.”
“Among such persons,” he
states, “would be ministers and
nurses. We are particularly
concerned,” Dr. Fitts reveals,
“with persons who work with
youth, formally or informally
as counselors, such as scout
leaders and recreational lead
ers.”
The two-week course is co
sponsored by the Education Di
vision, North Carolina Depart
ment of Mental Health, and
North Carolina College. The
Department of Mental Health
and local councils on alcohol
ism offer scholarships to the
course which is open to under
graduate and graduate students
and offers two hours’ credit.
Dr. Fitts, who is associate
professor of health education
at NCC and one of the course’s
five lecturers and seminar lead
ers, says: “One of the major
problems that the institute ad
dresses itself to is aiding teach
ers to become better prepared
to carry out their legal respon
sibility in teaching about alco
hol and alcoholism in the pub
lic schools.”