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Show Signpost-Tuesday, May 22, 1984 5 Letters . . . WSC WILKIT Program Is Supported Career Corner To the editor We are seniors in the elementary education program at Weber State and feel our experience with the WILKIT program has been most rewarding. It was disheartening for us to read the letter to the editor which was printed in the May 18 issue of the Signpost. We do not feel the WILKIT program is a 'correspondence course' as was mentioned in the letter. On the contrary, we found the WILKIT program to be challenging and contained all those important ingredients which contribute in making a classroom teacher well-trained and productive. The instructors are very accommodating and most helpful whenever students have questions or concerns about any part of a WILKIT assignment. Many instructors are willing to take their own time to not only disucss WILKITs but to also listen to personal concerns a student may have. To our knowledge the availability of instructors is better at WSC in our field than at any other university in the state. We feel a student in the WILKIT program has a broader perspective in various fields of study than could be covered in a classroom with one professor. A student going through this program has the opportunity to formulate hisher own personal philosophy of education, instead of being saturated by a limited perspective. Many students change majors because of the program and the time and effort required to complete each WILKIT in a professional and dedicated manner. This program involves a great deal of self discipline, just as an elementary classroom requires a teacher to be self-paced, organized and skilled. We are most pleased to be part of a program with a 98 percent placement rate of graduates and would encourage all prospective elementary education majors to look at the facts and decide for themselves. It is interesting to note that many of our peers have transferred from the University of Utah to obtain their teaching credential from WSC .... Allison C. Hailing Pamela Eynon Ann Krumperman Kay Hadley Sandra Devereaux Ruth Thorne Catherine Richey Erika Dickson Tami Krug Jamie Peterson To the editor After reading the Signpost's publication of a letter to the editor from Roger Clark, whom we in education know all too well, I find a strong need to respond in behalf of teacher education, especially at Weber State College. The IPT program or WILKIT program, as it is commonly known, is anything but a correspondence program. Those who believe they can complete the program without spending coutless hours in coursework and field experience are the ones who never finish. Fortunately, those who require motivation from others, who are passive learners, or who cannot budget their time are generally the ones who drop out of the program. That's good. They are the ones who shouldn't be teachers. Whenever a program deviates from the "chiseled in stone" format of three-hour lecture courses, one can expect the generation of strongly opposing viewpoints. The IPT program is no exception; there are those who "swear by it" and those who "swear at it." Those who take the name of the program in vain are not ignored, however. The IPT program, as it is today, is vastly different from what it was twelve years ago, and another major change is scheduled for implementation this fall. For those who wish to make judgements based on samples greater than one, you may be interested in the following: (a) Since the implementation of the IPT program, placement of graduates has been consistently over 90 percent for elementary graduates and near 80 percent for secondary graduates. Compare that to the other institutions in the state. (b) There are in excess of 20 teacher education students in our program who have been advised by their instructors at the University of Utah to fulfill their General Education requirements there and then to transfer to Weber State to complete their professional education sequence. (c) When asked if they would recommend the teacher education program to others, those students just completing the program gave a mean raking of 4.34 on a scale of one (negative) to five (positive). (d) A random sample of practicing teachers graduating within the past five years, when asked the same question, gave a mean ranking of 4.17. (e) A 1981 survey of graduates showed that over 87 percent of the respondents would recommend Weber State College to someone planning to be a teacher. (f) The 1982-83 ACT composite admissions scores of WSC freshmen was 16.7. The ACT composite scores of those admitted to teacher education for the same period was 20.4. 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