Mr. Allphin

Miss Litchen

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Miss Litchen

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION FR HEALTH
Radio Program

 

March 2, 1939.

(Miss Ruth Litchen, of the School of Education, and Mr. Herbert
G. Allphin, of the Department of Physical Education.)

Since you and I are supervisors of student teachers in the School
of Education at the University of Kansas, I thought it would be a
splendid idea for us to discuss our problems in this weekly broad-
caste

Miss Litchen, what subject do you supervise at the Oread Train-
ing School?

I supervise tho Social Stucios ~ these sthjocts dealing with history,
government, economics and sociolog.

What units do the social studics cover?

The courses which wo offer in the sceial studies at Oread Training
School are Citizenshir + a year course for freshmen; Werld History,
also a year course, an" usually offered in the sephomore year;
American History, again a covrse given throughout tho year, for
juniors or seniorsj ¢ scmester sorrse in International Relations
and a somestor cours in Sociclogy - fer juniors or soniors$; and an
all-senior cotirso,; Prcbioms of Dumocraty, Tnis laster course covers
curront probloms and histery, functional economics and sociology,
and also includes tuo rogqiired unis in Corstitation which every
graduating sonior fron 6 Kansas hizh school must presont to meet
tho state quelifica:isons.

Miss Litchon, how do you suptrviss wh? practice teachcors in social
scicnce at Oroad Training Sehoo.:

We have several practise coachecs in erea section of the social
studies in the Training School. Tac vorecedure is cporoximately this:

At the first of the somoster, I do demonstration teaching
in each of my classos, explaining in confcrenees with my student
toachors what methods I am using. what my goneral and specific ob-
joctives are for cach lesson, and what result I hope to obtain in
the pupils in the classes. Thon cach student toacher teaches for
two or three days = just an orientation period which gives the
student-teacher the feeling of handling the class, and establishes
support between the new teacher and the class itself.

Following this practice period I again do demonstration
teaching, and at the samc time confer with studont teachers who are
to be working on two or throe week unit toaching periods following
my demonstration teaching. After this second demonstration period,
the student-teacher is prepared to take over one fairly sizeable
unit of tcaching for which ho prepares his aims, materials to bo
covered, quizzes and all other mattors which relate to the teaching
of o class. By this combination of demonstration teaching and actual
practice, the social studies practice teachers not only seco what muy
bo accomplishod in a class but also get to try out their owm work.
In that way thoy arc woll prepared to go into an actual teaching