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Show TEACHER SHORTAGE MAY END IN 1953 Utah's elementary teacher shortage, short-age, which has prompted a teacher's teach-er's advisory council to investigate investi-gate the matter, will be taken care of by 1953 if hopes of the state department of education are fulfilled. In reporting this goal, N. Blaine Winters, state director of ' teaching personnel, said a plan of "upgrading" present emergency teachers coupled with recruitment . of new teachers is expected to make up the teacher deficit during dur-ing the next five years. If such a goal is reached, Utah will be much better off than most Ktates since the national teacher shortage is even more severe than here. First phase of the teacher increase in-crease plan that pi upgrading emergency teachers is already well under way, Mr. Winters' said. This is being accomplished by requiring re-quiring such teachers to complete a bachelor's degree or its equivalent equiva-lent by 1953 Recruiting of teachers is expected ex-pected to be increased primarily by counseling prospective teachers of the opportunities in the elementary ele-mentary field. Curtailing of teacher training in certain fields on the secondary level also i3 being be-ing studied. "Elementary teaching now pays the same as secondary and for a number of reasons offers the prospective pros-pective teacher more chance for advancement," Mr. Winters explained. ex-plained. "But there still seems to be a hangover from days gone by that there is more prestige in , teaching in the upper grades." |