To the Education Faculty: .

Your committee which was appointed and asked to investigate the possi-
bilities of how the School of Education might render additional services to the
schools over the state, primarily in assisting them in meeting the problems of
the war period and in anticipating the needs of the post-war period, submits the
following proposals for your consideration.

1. Regional staff institutes. It is proposed to compile a list of
several areas of school work which would be of interest to differ-
ent groups of teachers and administrators, and which the personnel
of the School of Education and the University would be qualified to
discuss. Regional centers would be established for a two day dis-
cussion of problems in these fields with the teachers and adminis—
trators of the area.

2, Follow-up New Teacher visitation. This involves mapping out an
itinerary so that graduates of K. U. would in their early years of
teaching be visited by a staff member. Consultation with adminis-—
trators and with teachers would help to overcome difficultics of
teachers, show administrators that the university is continuously
interested in the work of its graduates. _

3. Field Laboratory Workshops. A plan to make a systematic study of some
problem selected by the staff of a local school system, and to have
one or two members of the university faculty act as consultants and
advisors in the program.

For your convenience, tentative details of cach of these proposals are
presented below. Each of the proposals is a distinct service, in the sense that
the acceptance of one does not mean thet all must be included by a school. The
three types of activity represent a coordinated éffort to round out the service 7
program of the university, and to get the university and its program more forcibly
into the thinking of teachers and administrators.

Regional Staff Institutes.

1. List of proposed areas of work which might be suggested to school adminis-
trators and teachers in a local area:

Administration problems 5:

Music and Music Education

Physical Education and Health and Physical Conditioning
Fducational Measurement and Evaluation, and Supervision

Seience Teaching, and Methods of Teaching

Mental Hygiene, and Providing for Mental Deviations of C hildren
Reading Difficulties, Special Problems in Learning, and Guidance
Arithmetic Disabilities, and Elementary School Methods

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