1967_04 The Daily Collegian April 1967

              Student Teachers Like
Experimental Lab School
4—THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
r. April 11. 1967
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keep each  pupU  learning at his own pace. And
sometimes coUege students can communicate better
with soma of toe chUdren.
Student Teachers
Mrs. Gerard said, as a master teacher, she
strives to progressively give each student teacher
more responsibUlty untU they flnaUy take over and
make toe lesson plans.
Jim Porter, a senior social science major and a
fourth grade practice teacher for Mrs. Dorothy
Cady, said toe master teachers treat toe coUege
students as equals and give them more respon¬
sibUlty, respecting and helping them more than
Is toe case at toe public schools where he used to
Comparing her student teaching experience at
toe Lab School and Sierra Vista, a pubUc school,
Mrs. Kathy (Whitfield) Hodges, a first grade
teacher at toe McKlnley school, said both exper¬
iences were valuable. "The lab school sUmulates
new teachers by showing them modern methods
which can be used," she said.
rranslUon
In addition to enriching her general knowledge
of teaching, the student teaching experience there
taught  her how to motivate her advanced pupUs.
She said the school was bettor for observing
toe techniques of discipline, whUe Its excep¬
tional, vivacious teachers Inspired her to Imitate
Gerald Mattos, a graduate social science major,
caUed it a transition between theory and too public
school system, for future teachers.
Although the lab school Is an Ideal situation,
complete with pupUs who really want to iearn, and
cooperative parents, Mrs. Hodges learned many of
f.otxl experience
teaching  at   the  school,   she discovered
vas not really necessary to moUvale toe
; all she had to do was present the material
chUdre
Comparing his lab school education with his first
year at Kings Canyon Junior High School, Ken
Marshall feels he Is a little more advanced In
math and said he learned as much at toe experi¬
mental school with less homework.
Soloist PI Teach Dance
At FSC Summer Academy
e public I
)n toe other hand, her
later teaching experlcnCL
Sierra Vista gave he
confidence In toe appll-
Ion  of  discipline.   Sh
3  said   this Is lmportan
it obtaining the respect of tl
(iulnea Pigs"
in guinea pigs' who go
go school there? Dr. Halmbach said they at least
equal In performance, students who have toe
same capabUltles attending other schools. In ad¬
dition, they receive a 'much rli
from their Lab School education.
Mrs. Ann Culllngton, whose tour chUdr
attended the school, said their education was
er and deeper than what they would have r
Mrs. Gerome Rad
have completed Lab School, singled out forcommen-
datlon Its superior music department and to. ex-
ceUent study habits It gave her chUdren.
But she also voiced one complaint other parents
mentloned-toe chUdren's limited social environ¬
ment. 'The chUd doesn't get to know neighborhood
chUdren and may not feel as popular when he
graduates to Junior high.* She also said to. physical
education program is limited, but did not consider
It a disadvantage.
Some methods used at toe school should be
mentioned since, according to Porter, they gear
the chUdren to learn on their own and to do indi¬
vidual projects. This, he thinks, makes toe pupils
more adaptable and toe programs more flexible
than those of public schools. A pupil evaluation
system, which makes toe students go over what
they learned and reveals toe teacher'
Is used In too class he teaches.
Grades are rare at toe lab school. 'This doesn't
eliminate, but does cut down toe competition and
makes toe kids work for quality rather than a
grade," Porter said. Exercises, which are gone over
Individually with the student, are often substituted
for  tests,  which  usuaUy require grades. Porter
In Mrs. Gerard's class, there are not even any
report cards; parent conferences to toe fall, spring
and as needed, lake their places.
A non-graded primary system, which places those
In kindergarten and first grade In toe lower primary,
and second and third graders to the upper primary,
Is being used 'In order to blur grade passing
which Is no longer crucial,* Dr. Halmbach stated.
Cooperation
Parents participate more In their chUd's edu¬
cation by helping him at home and by taking an
active part to toe school's functions to addlUon to
helping toe teacher to class. There is better parent-
teacher cooperation and understanding; all class
work Is sent home for parental scrutiny. Mrs.
Marian Gerard, one of the lower primary teachers,
said this Is one reason for the smaller discipline
problem at the school.
Parents work with chUdren at school, too, usuaUy
in the same classroom as their chUd. Dr. Halmbach
said this directed teaching by parents makes them
take more responsibUlty for their chfid's educa¬
tion and emphasizes that 'schools belong to toe
people,   not   to   principals  and teachers."
The taxpayers gel their money's worth out of
the FSC Laboratory School. In addition to educating
their chUdren, it trains
Ellen Segal, former soloist
with the Martha Graham Danco
Company, win Join to. faculty
of to. Fresno Stat. Col lege Sum¬
mer Academy for the Performing
Arte.
Miss Segal has taught master
classes In tho basic Graham tech¬
nique at colleges and universities
throughout toe United States and
wUl be in chargeof choreography
and dance at toe summer session.
The academy wlU be held from
June 19- July 28 and wlU offer
Instruction to art, music, drama
and dance.
The faculty Includes Dr. Ar¬
thur C. Berdahl, professor of
music, musical director; Gaylord
O. Graham, chairman of toe FSC
Theatre Arena, technical direc¬
tor; Jeanette Bryon, staff cos-
turner and assistant professor
of speech, costume and make-up;
Paul McGulre, coordinator of
academic administration and
speech arts lecturer, acting and
directing; Bob L. Bennett, asso¬
ciate professor of music, compo¬
sition, conducting and piano;
Arthur J. Bryon, professor
of music, music theory and his-
Athens
Revisited
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The   Loyal  Opposition"  wUl
play for toe dance which Is $1 a
•The students of FSC, through
their student body presidents
have pledged to support this cen¬
ter by annually conducting a dance
plained Gary Tudor, president of
Alpha Delta UpsUon and dance
chairman. 'Since this Is toe year
in which the new buUdlng wUl be
erected, an all-out effort on toe
part of college students wUl be
greaUy appreciated.*
purchased from ADU fraternity
or from O.J. Tocchlo, assoclato
professor of criminology, or Dr.
Bernard Shepard, professor of
Journalism.
tory, violin and viola. Gayle
SmaUey and Richard Delaney,
photography and design; Gene
Thompson and Tom McDougall,
sculpture and ceramics, and Ed
Land of Wisconsin, metal work
AU wUl he Involved to produc¬
ing The Bagger's Opera," di¬
rected by Charles RandaU, assis¬
tant professor of speech.
Students Are
Offered Study
In Netherlands
The Netherlands School of Bus¬
iness In conjunction with the Uni¬
versity of Oregon Is offering a
Junior year overseas program
for male students. Representa¬
tives wUl be on campus Apr. 12
to Interview students from 3 to
5 p.m. In Education-Psychology
122.
Doctors Donald L. Thompson,
assistant dean of graduate studies
and Harold K. Strom, director
of transportation and logistics at
the university wUl hold a group
discussion of the overseas pro¬
gram as well as discuss particu¬
lars In graduate studies for all
Dr. Thompson noted that toe
overseas program termed the
"Dutch Program,' Is designed
to   expose   male students to the
ment, while covering subjects
he would normally be taking dur¬
ing his Junior year.
He  stated   that  "the program
school and still graduate In toe
Students will also participate
In a one-month supervised work
experience with European firms,
and In several organized Indus-
trips Integrated with
Triumphant Forensics
Teams Return Home
Twelve Fresno State College
forensics speakers brought home
awards and honors from the an¬
nual  Chlco  State  Interpretation
Speech Tournament to Reno last
Doth tournaments attracted
teams from a wide variety of
Western   coUeges and unlvorsl-
The Chlco Stale Invitational
was conducted as a non-trophy
event. The awards won by FSC's
rating earned In toe Readers
Theater competition. Tony Per¬
ella, Sue Jensen, PhU Manyard
and Jennifer Waldron comprised
the theater  entry.
Four awards were swept to
oratory, as well as to Interpre¬
tation. Miss Jensen, Perella,
Miss Waldron and Elaine Cor-
rlngton (to Interpretation only)
were toe final winners for both
divisions.
Miss Waldron also won a
superior award In Interpretation.
She was one of two tournament
participants to earn a super¬
ior award in Interpretation.
At toe University of Nevada
tournament, FSC competed
against Washington, Arizona,
Oregon, Utah, Idaho, California
(Berkeley) and Nevada Univer¬
sities.
In debate toe team of Len Del
Carlo and Kevin Gupton scored
5-2 to the three days of compe¬
tition whUe Brian White and Tom
Tusan scored 4-3. Jerry Burke
was awarded fourth place to
after-dinner speaking and par¬
ticipated to toe final rounds.
The forensics squad wUl take
two weeks off and may return to
the debating rounds May 12-13
with what wUl probably be toe last
tournament of toe coUege year.
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Tuesday, April 11. 1967
ACTORS—Jim (Ted Hall). Noah (Bruce Bronzan)
and H. C. Curry (Mel Cobb) (leit to right) attempt
to persuade toe sheriff to come to toe town picnic.
RALLY COMMITTEE Is spon¬
soring a pep girl and cheerlead¬
er clinic today at 3 p.m. to toe
balcony of the men's gymnasium.
Other pep clinics wUl be held
Apr. 13 and Apr. 18.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
CLUB will host Edmund Auditor,
assistant professor of econom¬
ics, tonight at 7 o'clock to Cafe-
THE SENATE BOARD ON THE
COLLEGE UNION wUl meet to¬
morrow at 8 a.m. to Cafeteria
Committee Room 1.
ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION STUDENT BRANCH
will meet Wednesday at 4 p.m.In
Laboratory School Room 102.
Free materials on physical sci¬
ence wUl be distributed as well
as a sharing of Ideas for bulletin
INTER-CLUB   COUNCIL   wlU
meet Wednesday night at 7 o'clock
In IA 101. President Jay Donlon
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Swedish Pupils
Help Stop Friction
Food Problems, avaUable to all
upper division students. CouncU
members should pick up meeting
agendas   to toe Student  Presl-
RECREATION NIGHT wUl be held
Wednesday to toe Women's Gym
and to toe Men's Gym from 7 to 9
p.m. The swimming pool wlU also
be open from 7 to '9 p.m. Fea¬
tured at Rec Night wUl be an
orientation session to enable toe
student body to become more to-
formed about toe Happenings
Class. Club spokesman said toe
"happening* wUl be held from
8:15 to 8:45 In toe main floor of
toe Men's Gym.
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE RE¬
PUBLICANS wlU meet Apr. 13
at 1 p.m. to SS 205. Nominations
for next year's officers will be
held as well as discussion for a
booth at toe Blue Key Carnival.
INTER-VARSTTY CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP wUl meet Apr. 13
to S 221 at 1 p.m. Don Davis, li¬
brarian at FSC, win speak on
"The Dlety of toe Lord Jesus
Christ." This Is continued from a
series enUUed "Here We Stand.*
SEMPER F1DELIS is looking for
an Armed Froces Queen for
Armed Forces Day to be held to
Fresno on May 19. Queen appli¬
cations are available to toe Stu¬
dent President's office. Semper
Fldells wUl meet Apr. 13 at 8 p.m.
By O. STKJ BEROENSTEN
STOCKHOLM (UPI) - CoUege
students organise, demonstrate,
strike and men riot to other
countries to change education
methods. But Sweden has a unique
setup that gives pupils a taste of
helping run their own affairs
lower down toe age scale.
And Swedish educators believe
to. Swedish PupUs Central Or¬
ganization (SECO) helps avoid too
friction between college students
and professors that clouds educa¬
tional relations to some other
countries.
SECO members are students to
high schools and Junior high
schools from 13 to 20 years old.
The president of toe organization
is always a student who takes a
year from his studies for toe full-
- Ume Job of running toe show and
draws a salary of $180 a month.
It alms, according to this
year's president, Hans Dahlgren,
18, to create a "school demo¬
cracy' to which pupUs Join gov¬
ernment and school authorities In
making decisions.
"Schools are trying to teach
students the democratic mothod,'
Dahlgren said. But when teachers
are dictators and pupUs are pun¬
ished U they protest," It's diffi¬
cult to convince toe pupUs that
you   really   mean   democracy.*
SECO was born to 1948 from a
group of Pupil's Councils. These
councUs had been set up to toe
early 1930's to act as Interme¬
diaries between teachers and pu¬
pUs. In 1952 It was given Its
present name, Sverlges Elevers
CentraorganlzaUon. It had 70,000
every Junior high
school and high school pupU is a
member of SECO which la rec¬
ognized by toe government as a
consulting body for school ques¬
tions. The rr
of which toe government adds an
annual grant of $24,000.
Once a year to. SECO Parlia¬
ment, its supreme body, meets
for two or three days with some
120 delegates from toe 25 SECO
districts. The proceedings are
modeled after parliamentary
conduct and some critics have
argued they are too formal and
•toe kids sound like middle-aged
politicians.' *^
Last year a liberal-socialist
majority recommended salaries
for students. This year there was
a conservative majority and toe
proposal was removed from toe
SECO program.
•We are not working against the
school authorities," Dahlgren
said. "On toe contrary we are
trying to help the teachers and
make their work easier."
Many Swedes were skeptical
about SECO but they changed
their minds during toe Swedish
teachers strike which left 500,000
students without faculty last year.
The SECO councUs 'appointed*
students to take toe classes and
maintain order.
Officials said they did It pretty
well and the Minister of Educa¬
tion, Ragner Edenman, praised
SECO saying 'without toe con¬
tributions by our students toe
strike  could have been catas-
Student Majority Favors
Evaluation Of Professors
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tor's rating, he never would have
taken toe particular one he now
has.
'He's a nice guy and I wouldn't
mind having him for anelghbor,*
he said, 'but 1 wouldn't recom¬
mend him to train a dog, much
less undergraduates.'
A nursing major remarked that
she didn't feel It was a good Idea
because she wasn't qualified to
rate an Instructor.
Another feature of evaluation is
toe improvement that It might
bring about. This was toe main
point another student stressed.
*. . . and It might help toe poor
ones (professors) beef up their
courses a bit."
The undergraduate student Is
not the only one Interested to a
rating system. A past president
Of toe BuUdog Foundation thought
It was a good Idea. He stressed
staying away from personality
rating and being thorough.
Some students interviewed
seemed to stress toe value of a
published evaluation, that was
avaUable to Incoming students.
When asked U they thought It
would help toe returning stu¬
dent, they seemed to prefer re-
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Uance upon word-of-mouto and a
student's   knowledge   gained by
\      Blindly Good
StUl others  thought It was a
blindly good thing and could see
no pitfalls that might arise to
such an undertaking.
One coed questioned toe Inter¬
viewer by saying simply: 'How
do you evaluate a professor?*
The how of evaluation Is only
part of toe problem. The fairness
of any approach also deserves
much attention as does toe'right'
of evaluation.
The  method of rating Is also
of prim. Importance, as Is a set
pattern  of  safeguards   for toe
Instructor as well as toe student.
Student. Favorable
The majority of students In¬
terviewed are to favor of some
method of rating or evaluation.
Many are properly worried about
fairness, accuracy and safe-
Others question toe feasabUlty
of such an undertaking and a few
are completely against evalua¬
tion.
Record Is Held
In The Shower
MASS., UPI - Richard Moor.,
18, apparently Is planning to
graduate from CoUege with .de¬
gree In records—setting them.
The Lexington, Mass., trash-
man recenUy claimed a world
record for taking toe longest
shower to history - 81 hours.
Although wet and tired, be said
he had his eye on a local record —
crowding students Into a fifth
floor ironing room at a
dormitory.