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Show Convention gives tvio University coeds ideas to improve educational system -Student leaching internship. This proposed program is hoped to provide more relevancy for upcoming teachers when faced with the problems of the classrooms. class-rooms. Student teachers involved in project will be paid to teach instead of having to pay to teach. -Experimental education techniques. tech-niques. New ways for learning to become an individual experience where a student would work on his own and at his own pace. -Bridging the gap between the theories of education improvement improve-ment and the actual implementation implementa-tion of them. The gap thai exists here is encouraged by the out- da led ideas of the past and the stilling of more relevant leaching materials and methods not to mention the lack of money to fund Ihem. -Updating and improvement of teacher cducalion on the campus of the universities. Included in the rash of discussions, discus-sions, meetings and speeches at the convention were field trips lo various experimental schools that were funded by federal and private pri-vate foundation grants. Miss Sunderland and Miss McClure were chosen by the local chapter of the SNEA lo go to the national convention. Ideas to improve the educational educa-tional system was one commodity that University students Cora Sunderland Sun-derland and Janet McClure possessed pos-sessed in abundance when they returned from the Student National Education Association (SNEA) convention in San Fra-' Fra-' ncisco. The educational majors went to the SNEA convention during the last week of June and the ideas that they brought back are still new and for the most part untried and worth comparing with the Utah SEA proposals for improvement. improve-ment. The week-long convention encouraged en-couraged the following suggestions sugges-tions in these areas: -Student representation for the National Education Association (NEA). Student teachers should be able to send legitimate representatives repre-sentatives to the national lachcrs meetings instead of being reprc- sentcd by spokesmen trom tne NEA. -Improvement of minority education. ed-ucation. The SNEA wishes lo sec better faculty members brought into minority areas, the equalization equaliza-tion of faculty staffs around the school districts and the hiring of I more minority teachers. It was also suggested at the convention that an urban teaching program be initiated to deal with the special problems of the poor. |