1. We recommend that those College departments concerned with subject.matter

2.

3. We recommend that the Administrative Committee be requested to study the
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most widely taught in the high schools (Chemist English, History, Home
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departments) be requested to consider their offering of courses from the
standpoins of determining whether the specific content and method of in-
struction serve as a sound preparation for high school teaching in the
respective fields. (We have in mind the advisability of asking the depart-
ments just named to hold special meetings, at which, we think, the chairman
should have available copies of the Handbook on Organization and Practices
for the Secondary Schools of Kansas, as well as copies of the reports from
Mr. Chandler's office. As a means of covering the ground adequately we
suggest the following questions for discussion by each department.

 

(1) Are we satisfactorily preparing the present day high school teacher
for his job in our field?

(2) If not, is it practicable to attempt to provide the kind of training
we feel desirable?

(3) What other subjects should he logically be prepared to teach along
with the one we represent?

(4) Are we doing all we can to keep in touch with our graduating majors
who are teachers and to encourage association with school officials
who may be interested in our majors?

(5) Are we making full use of our opportunity to send out one or more
issues of the K. U. Newsletter to high school teachers?

(6) Could we with profit issue a bibliographical pamphlet for the use of
our majors?

(7) Would it be well to have a departmental committee appointed to look
into these matters?)

We recommend th h ulty reque he D to appoint a committee to
onsider the advisability of organizi natural science group major to
t of o re hys ien d biological science group
majors. (This proposal is made because the physical and biological group
majors do not serve the purpose for which they were designed. Few high
school teachers in Kanses are allowed to instruct in one field of the
natural sciences alone. Ordinarily science teachers are employed to conduct
elementary classes in both the physical and the biological sciences. What
we propose is to take into account a condition which we are in no position
to alter.)

LL: i . (We have in mind not courses concerned
with methods of teaching, of course, but courses the subject matter of which
will need to be presented differently from the way at present if prospective
high school teachers are to be satisfactorily trained. For example, it
might be wise to offer additional subject matter preparation for high school
teachers in the fields of home economics and journalism as well as in the
(with us) unrecognized field of general science.)