Friday, November 21, 1958
THE SALE MITE
Page Three
Preparation For Teachers Proves Hard But Satisfying
lAnd How Do Your Teachers Grow?
Time! Time I Cry the girls in
education. When can I find time ?
How do they expect me to take
four method courses at a time and
keep up with my major?
Yes, sometimes I thought I’d
never live through it, but that s the
amazing part about Salem’s educa
tion department—you do.
It all begins your sophomore
year when you take general and
child psychology. As future teach
ers and parents, this is a most
essential course, for it includes a
study of human activity—person
ality, intelligence, social develop
ment, and process of learning, and
the development of the child from
conception through adolescence.
During the second semester of
every year you will see girls walk
ing past the infirmary down to
Central Elementary School. They
go once a week for seven weeks
to observe a child in his social
group. You’ll see the girls carry
ing a tiny pad to take notes on—
for the child must not see you
writing. You must be very incon
spicuous. You then write a report
on this child. So we see in this
I course the beginning of your ob
servations. Observing is one phase .
of Salem’s Education Department
that ; makes it so outstanding. In
most of these education courses
'you observe, teach various aspects,
and therefore get direct applic*tion
of what you are learning abo«t in
the classroom.
Then comes that fabulous junior
year—the year of all years at Salem
(if you’re in education)—the year
'of METHODS. This year you
take as many courses in methods
as you can, so that you will be
well-prepared to do your practice
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Dr. Elizabeth Welch, Head of the Education Department
Practice Teaching Reveals
Value Of Teaching Methods
Second semester of Education is
your main method semester. And
what a semester I This is when
the elementary and secondary
teachers separate. Elementary
teachers take Education 224—this
gives you the technitjues for teach
ing readin’, writin’, and rithmetic.
It shows the materials used in
teaching, the curriculum for each
grade, and organization of the
classroom.
The big project in this course is
the keeping of a Diary—an organ
ized collection of all materials given
you. Another part of this course
is observing two hours every week
the aspect of education you are
studying. Another course is child
ren’s literature, which includes
study of books and poetry and
choric speaking.
Physical Education is another
methods course taken your junior
year. You really let yourself go
in this course—acting like any age
child you want to. All tjie girls
teach games and rhythms on their
grade level and we really have fun
being elephants and airplanes.
Then there is a methods course
in health. This includes principles
and procedures in health at the
elementary level. Doing units and
bulletin boards are the main pro
jects in this course. ■
Now you’ve been through all the
education courses. When you’ve
had them you’ll feel “all through.”
You may say “all to no avail, but
it’s not, for now you are prepared
to practice teach.
The first week of practice tech-
ing during your senior year you
observe and slowly you begin to
take over the classroom and the
actual teaching. This is where your
methods courses prove their worth.
This is where you gain most of
your experience in teaching, and
this is where you see the great re-
sponsibilitis of a teacher. This is
where you gain your confidence
as a teacher.
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