Student plebes plagued with pressure
Student teaching is an experience which many students fear. It is an eight hour, eight week program which is required for graduation from the School of Education.
Student teaching was started at the University of Kansas about 1910. Student teaching as it exists today began about 1946.
Eight hours of education courses are required before the semester of student teaching. During the semester of student teaching, the student must take six hours of courses in understanding the school as an institution. These are taken during the quarter that the students are not student teaching.
Approximately 750 student teachers are sent out from KU each year. Students list the district in which they want to student teach and the school systems put the student teachers where they are needed.
The purpose of the student teaching program is to give students the practical experience of being a full time teacher.
Comments from students and high school principals indicate that the program could be improved by having a full semester of student teaching with the courses at the university also being taken during this period or by making education a five year program with a one year teaching internship.
I. N. Bowman, director of student teaching, said that one of the main problems of the school is in placing student teachers. "There are not enough classrooms in the critical areas of language arts and social studies. In some school systems, this is aggravated by the rules against new teachers having student teachers and against a cooperating teacher having two student teachers in a row."
Except for a few exceptions, all student teachers teach within a 50-mile radius of Lawrence.
Linda Hybarger, Independence, Kan, senior, is currently teaching at Eudora High School. She thinks that student teaching is better than she expected it to be.
"Student teaching is 100 times better than regular classes. You're under pressure but it is not the same type of pressure. It's a fun type of pressure rather than the type of pressure you are under in classes," she said.
Miss Hybarger teaches two classes of senior English and two classes of junior English. She is also observing one French class.
She said that because she is closer in age to her students,she tries to make her assignments more interesting and tries to give less homework.
She spends more time preparing for her work in front of the class than she spent preparing for classes as a student. She works approximately eight hours a day preparing for the next day's classes. Two planning periods during the day are used for planning her classes and correcting papers.
Student teachers are graded by the supervisor and the cooperating teacher. The supervisor visits the school at least three times during the student teaching period During these visits, the supervisor observes a class taught afterwards.
In addition to the visitation conferences, the students meet with their supervisors before they go out to teach, once during the student teaching period on campus and after they have completed their student teaching.
Their grades are based on the supervisors visits and conferences and on an evaluation booklet handed in by each cooperating teacher. The evaluations include 65 items.
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Math profs are among KU's best
The department of mathematics, located in 217 Strong Hall, has a large and distinguished faculty. The senior staff for the 1969-70 academic year consists of nine professors, eight associate professors and sixteen assistant professors.
One professor and two assistant professors are on leave during 1969-70. In addition to the senior staff the department has a junior staff consisting of 72 assistant instructors (graduate students who teach half-time) and two research assistants. Eight graduate students hold fellowships and traineeships.
In September, 1969, the department had 4,393 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate courses in math. The department had 155 undergraduate and 76 graduate students majoring in mathematics.
Those staff members who have a doctorate degree have distinguished themselves with degrees from well known schools. Those are: Minnesota (2), Cornell, University of Paris, Stanford, University of Bonn, Germany, University of Oregon, University of California at Berkeley (5), Nebraska (2), Wisconsin (2), Notre Dame (2), Princeton, Northwestern, Michigan, Washington, Harvard (2), New Mexico State, Iowa State, University of Illinois (2), University of South Africa and the University of Kansas.
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