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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
School of Education to Offer Self-Paced Program
KU to Initiate 4-Semester Teacher Practicum
Rv DEAN FORD
Kansan Staff Writer
Education Dean Dale Scannell Outlines New Program
An alternative program for teacher education at the University of Kansas will be opening for about 75 randomly chosen students who will be entering the School of Arts.
"By using this program, we can give the students theory and practice simultaneous education for Swartz, Siler, of education and chairman of the alternative program committee."
The School of Education has committed 25 per cent of all its undergraduate resources, including personnel, to the new program, Swartz said.
UPON ENTERING the program, the student will be assigned a school system approximating the size of the system in which he wants to work.
They will work in the school districts of DeSoto, small town; Lawrence, small city; Center District, Mo.; suburban; or Kansas City. Mo., large urban.
Next, the students will be divided into various seminar groups, said Swartz. One seminar will meet once a week to integrate all experiences that the students might have during that week, she said. Another seminar will be held every week during which participants will check their progress and discuss their future plans, she
DALE SCANNELL, de of the School of Education, said that the program was "a self-paced activity where students were allowed time to acquire a minimal com-
penalty for certain skills required of teachers."
The student will be required to spend a minimum of one day a week at his assigned school, said Swartz. The rest of the week will be used for instructional modules, which can be done in class or in the field, she said.
Themes for the program will be given for each semester based on a two-year period
even though the program is self-paced,
Swartz said.
Swartz told the semester themes were as follows:
FIRST SEMESTER themes are "Exploring Me as a Teacher" and "Psychological Foundations of Education." Second genester themes are "Looking at
Second semester themes are "Looking at Others" and "Beginning Teaching Skills."
Third semester themes are "Looking At
B-School Emphasizes Careers
By ANAGABRIEL
By ANA GABRIEL
Kansan Staff Writer
The objectives of the School of Business are to prepare students for careers in business and help them understand them with the skill and understanding they'll need to accept managerial responsibilities, according to John Tollefson, professor of marketing and business.
"These objectives are obtained in two ways," said Tolefleon. "First, through the specific courses in business subjects. Second, through the opportunities we provide the students to receive a broad, general education."
Tollson said that most of the students in the School of Business had had a good educational foundation from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
He said the courses at the undergraduate level are divided into disciplinary courses (e.g., history, law) and non-disciplinary courses.
The functional courses are courses in specific business areas and include
The disciplinary courses include math, behavioral sciences and economics and are required for a good foundation in a business education.
"These courses involve the application of knowledge obtained in the disciplinary courses through particular kinds of business problems," said Tolleson.
He said there were a variety of methods used for teaching business courses depending on the nature of the course and the instructor thought would be most effective.
"We have the traditional lecture, some computer instruction, some emphasis on reading. It's not as much fun."
periential approach." said Tollefson.
The experiential approach allows the individual faculty member to choose methods that he feels will work best for him, he said.
There has been a dramatic increase in the attention given to computers in the past five years and many instructors are using them to impart their teaching methods. Tollefson said.
He said there had been no major changes in the course offerings of the business school from last year. However, there have been a few changes in the undergraduate program offered by the university and the prerequisites that must be completed before taking certain courses.
Tolleson said that he to be admitted to the School of Business a student must have completed 50 semester hours of college credit and received 120 grade points. If a student has received 60 or more hours, he has to have a C average.
There are no specific courses required for admission to the School of Business.
Tollefson said that enrollment in the school of Business had increased substantially.
In the fall of 1970s undergraduates were enrolled in the fall of 1972; 689 un-
graduated.
Three new faculty members will join the business faculty in the fall. They are Charles Schaninger, who will be acting assistant professor and will teach marketing; Ronald Williams, acting assistant professor who will teach teaching; and William LeRoy Harrison, acting assistant professor who will teach accounting.
candidates for a new dean of the School of Business, says Lawrence Sherr, associate professor of business and chairman of the search committee.
A search committee is currently collecting nominations and screening
Institutions", "Understanding the School as a Social institution" and "Diagnosis and Treatment."
THE FOURTH SEMESTER theme is Integrating Personal, Professional, and Academic Learning.
"We have decided what a competent teacher should be, know and do," said Swartz. "and we have broken down these competent teacher abilities into objectives for the student to achieve and demonstrate."
By this method the school is trying to eliminate the overlap in instruction that sometimes occurs in other styles of programs, she said.
The committee is searching for a successor to Clifford Clark, who resigned. In the interim Joseph Pichler is acting dean of the school.
ACCORDING TO SWARTZ, the students go in a progression from teacher aid to teacher assistant to diagnostician and, finally, to internship.
Sherr said the committee had received nominations from KU faculty, members of the business community, an advisory group and former faculty members and alumni.
He said that letters would be sent to the nominees in September asking whether they would be interested in the dean's information. If so, requesting personal information.
The student will leave the program when he can demonstrate all of the competencies, he must
The candidates will then visit with the Chancellor, vice chancellors, deans and presidents.
After the visits are completed, the School of Business Assembly will rank the candidates. With the aid of this ranking, the teachers' jobs will select and negotiate the job offer.
Another new program is the federally sponsored Teacher Corps Program which provides training to teachers.
"It is a multi-cultural program primarily for the area of elementary education," Scannell said. "KU is doing the program in Austin and Lawrence and Kansas City school systems."
THE PROGRAM is used to train people, Scannell sand, who will be working with the project.
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According to Scannell, the primary function of the program is to acquaint the students with the special problems and procedures, which deal specifically with classes that contain minority or disadvantaged students.
The normal enrollment in the School of Education is 16 hours a semester. Twelve hours is considered a minimum for a full-time enrollment.
Physical education majors register in the school of Education for their entire four year period.
Enrollment for less than 12 hours or more
of 18 hours requires special permission.
Students needing advisement in the planning of courses or other preparations for becoming a teacher may inquire at the School of Education, 112 Bailey; Secondary Education, 117 Bailey; Art Education, 109 Bailey; Music Education, 111 Bailey; Men's Physical Education, 108 Robinson; Men's Social Science, 108 Robinson; and Special Education, 111 Robinson.
LIKE THE ALTERNATIVE education program, the Teacher Corps Program is self-paced, he said. And they both will use a number of multimedia approaches.
Regier said that the program was a sort of public relations tool that brings administrators and teachers together with faculty and students.
In the past year the School of Education started an educators-in-residence program. The program is one of the duties assigned to the school's services, conferences and publications committee, whose chairman is Herold Reger, associate professor of education and director of the school's placement bureau.
Dean Scannell first came to the University as an instructor of education in 1859 after he had received a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He was the associate dean of the graduate school at KU from 1963 until 1967.
which there is a mutual exchange of ideas," he said.
ART EDUCATION and music education major register in the School of Fine Arts as
a member of the Art Department.
After two years as a professor at Iowa, he returned to KU as dean of the School of Law.
SCANNELL NAMED the new faculty member for the 1973-74 school year by university leadership.
"IT IS A ONE-WEEK period during
Physical Education—Philip Huntsinger, associate professor; Carol Zebas, assistant professor; and Bernard Taylor, instructor and director of the natatorium.
Elementary Education—Sherry Borgers, assistant professor.
Educational Psychology—Neil Salkind,
assistant professor.
WHETHER THE STUDENT is entering the alternative education program or the regular program, the entrance are still the same, according to Scannell.
A student may transfer from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences or another school of the University at the beginning of the junior year provided that he has a minimum of 50 semester credit hours and a minimum of 110 grade points.
Special Education-Edward Meyen,
professor and chairman of special
education, and Richard Simpson, assistant
professor.
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