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Show Educator Warns Utahns About Education Future I ,U,T LAKE CITY -,ih today's schools are J or than they over havo , vot tocc,s at work '''' b " h- Ivivo rendered teach-Und teach-Und schools obsolete. Un- ' 1 'there is a major reyolu-L reyolu-L in education, as there ""been in other facets of ', ur society, there may not In be a public school sys- tom by "ie late 1980's-j 1980's-j This warning was given to a Utah conference on student stu-dent teaching Friday (May 2) by Dr. Edward C. Pino, superintendent Chory Creek Schools, Englewood, Colo. Two hundred cooperating teachers, administrators supervisors, and teacher educators ed-ucators hoard the nationally known educator at the Ra-mada Ra-mada Inn. Dr. Pino listed the real ons that today's education has become obsolete: The population, knowledge and mobility explosions, the rising ris-ing expectations of various groups and competition for the education dollar. These things have "changed "chang-ed our world so dramatically that most of what we are doing in education is meaningless," mean-ingless," he said. The riots on campus "are partly a result of the job we have been dojng," ho said. Kids are better educated educat-ed now and they feel that school today is irrelevant. It's more than just the rising ris-ing expectations of minority groups. Kids don't like the monstrosity we're trying to preserve," Dr. Pino continued. continu-ed. Expectations of teachers are rising, too. They are tired of subsidizing the local taxpayer, he added. However, Howev-er, the expectations of parents par-ents are also rising and they are tired of being asked for more and more money Jo run the schools. The day the 25 to 1 ratio of students to teachers will have to end. New staffing patterns and technologies are the only answer. We will have to justify to the public pub-lic what we are doing with their money. He then cautioned that for the first time the instiution of public education is on the line. Every major industry in America is now heavily involved in education. In the past the interest has centered cen-tered on serving education, but the past 18 months have seen a move in inrustry to take over education, Dr. Pino said. Moving to teacher training, train-ing, he -compared master teachers to training doctors He said that no one would lock an intern in a ward with 25 patients and forget about him the way we do in education. Through his internship in-ternship he works with and is trained by experts. He then presented a plan which is being used in his School district in conjunction conjunc-tion with the University of Colorado. Students begin the pro-, gram during their junior year in college. For the first two years they do routine tasks in the public schools, gradually graduate to some paraprofessional work, and and are paid $1,300 a year. The next three years they f-pend as an intern, then a junior resident and finally seinor resident constantly being trained, observed and helped by master teachers and attending glasses at the university. Each year the salary increases considerbly. The program provided a progressive transition fjm the campus - oriented education edu-cation to service and learning learn-ing in the school and community com-munity environment. It is a realistic merging of education educa-tion theory with practice, Dr. Pino said. |