Ilanuary 15,J96^
THE SALEMITE
Page Three
Betsey Guerrant "Miss Student Teacher”, Will Represent Salem
Representing Salem at the spring
[North Carolina Education Associa-
Ition convention will be Betsey
I Guerrant.
She Lina Farr and May Terry
[were chosen by SNEA to compete
the annual selection of Salem’s
[representative at the spring meet-
I ing-
Betsey taught at James A. Cxray
I High School under Miss Clara
1 Field. She instructed five classes
[of tenth-grade biology and was in
[charge of one study hall. Betsey
[lectured every day and kept a
[simple running outline on the black-
I board, adding each day’s material
[to it. The main problem she found
jin changing from college to high
[school biology was the inadequate
laboratory equipment, with only six
[microscopes for an average of 35
[students. She found that visual
[aids and other emotional ap
proaches—“anything you see, feel,
[draw or touch’’—got the best re-
jsponses. Betsey said, “I really
[learned that this theory was the
[most effective teaching method I
[had.”
Betsey used “clearing-up” periods
[once a week. These promoted scien-
Itific interest and more objective dis-
[cussions. She cleared up common
[misconceptions and fallacies as “If
[you hit a Pekingese on the back
[of the head, his eyes will fall out.”
jShe also brought up current events,
[in science. In fact, Tuesday after-'
[noon three students visited her in
[Bitting to discuss their project on
[incubated eggs. Trying to repro-
[duce an experiment in a current
Imagazine, they had to put 30 eggs
[into the incubator and turned the
Iheat up to 160 degrees. Betsey was
loffered their 30 baked eggs.
Her students were naturally in-
Iterested in things which involved
[them directly. For example, she
[used parasitic worms to tie in the
[fheory of scientific evolution from
[lower to higher forms.
Betsey plans to teach in Atlanta
jjnext year, “Whether I’m married
|to Russ then or not.” She will
teach biology or general science in
junior or senior high school.
She feels that the new education
program is “very adequate.” She
said “I thought during the methods
course that a lot of it was over-
idealistic, but I found that I used
most of it.” She approves of the
combination of the methods course
and practice teaching because “We
concentrated and got it over with.”
She said “If possible 1 would like
to have been observed more and
had more criticism of my teaching.”
Now an accredited teacher upon
her graduation, Betsey says “I
really feel like I could go into any
classroom. I’m not at all skeptical
about teaching now.”
Lina and May both taught at
Ardmore Elementary School. Lina’s
teacher was Mrs. Frances Groat
and May’s was Mrs. Louise Clark.
Both girls are majoring in history.
To bring history into her second
grade discussion, Lina took advant
age of the story on Ike’s tour in
the Weekly Reader. She asked
how many knew who the first presi
dent \yas. She was horrified when
only three children raised their
hands. “So, from that day forth,
my first question was, ‘Who was
the first president?’” From this
she began discussing “what a Capi
tol city was and that although
Eisenhower was president, other
people made rules, people from
other states who went up to Wash
ington.” Lina says “Believe it or
not, they were interested.”
Then one day an air raid siren
went off. Lina began explaining,
“We don’t like Russia, because
Russia will not let you discuss.
They are trying to make us like
them and if we have. a war, we
will have to have a place to hide
and this (the siren) is the warn
ing.”
Lina plans to teach in Greensboro
next year. She says she “hopes to
get married within the next three
years, but will continue teaching
for a few years.”
Lina also approves of the new
education program because she feels
iviay 1 erry,
you “Learn by Doing”, especially
by teaching all day for two weeks.
But she says, “I do feel you should
take another education course such
as elementary art, instead of a
regular course. I don’t feel I got
full benefit from this course.”
May brought in her major, his
tory, into her first grade classroom
by discussing Armistice Day and
why it was a holiday. She ex
plained to the children “It was the
day a big war ended.” She also
got a vigorous discussion of why
the two new states, Alaska and
Hawaii, were different, especially
when she brought out a map.
May felt the hardest thing to do
in teaching the first grade was to
“get on their level without talking
baby talk.” She says, “you have to
be sincere because they can catch
you. First-graders, she feels, “are
(really better judges of human na
jrari*, and joeta^y piay coiic
ture than adults are.”
She found out that she had to be
sincere the hard way. One day,
to control a noisy class, she de
clared that she had a “two-way
radio to Santa Claus and that she
would tell him when they were
bad.” Her first-graders laughed at
her and from then on she had to
control her imagination.
May will be married in August
to Don Drummond Put plans to
teach “wherever my husband is,
probably in Spartanburg.”
Commenting on the education
programs, she liked the fact that
practice teachers can go directlj'
from the methods course into actual
teaching without a summer inter
vening.
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