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Show 3W program gives teachers experience when a PTA officer, Mrs. Joy Hashimoto, urged the College of Education to support an enrichment enrich-ment program at Douglas In response to this request, Mrs Maxme Green, a Department of Education instructor, was assigned to supervise several student teachers. This year Mr Cene Ball, a teaching fellow, and nine students teachers were assigned to Douglas. Since its inception, the enrichment enrich-ment program has had nothing but praise from parents and kids. But some teachers are disturbed about problems in scheduling and coordinating activities. The student teachers, for the most part, are very happy about their teaching experience at Douglas. Some will spread the idea of interest centers to their new classrooms after they graduate. The students teacher are Colleen Ashton, Jean Taggart, Elaine Velasquez, Sharon Schieving, Kay Hammond, Linda Cillett, janis Denton, lone Billhymere, and Cayen Bennett. By REX NUTTING Chronicle Staff University is all talking, 2 talking, theory, theory, ; What is needed is more iefKe actually on the job." ,. Mr Ben Booth, principal ;gas School, 668 S. 13 E e an innovative student Nine program has been -Wished by the PTA the artment of Education and the I iLake District. , program consists of interest ;,ers set up independently the classroom in social iies art, science, creative mg' language arts, math and ,ic to let the students study in non-competitive atmosphere. iBically designed to give the mary students (K-3) an enrichment enrich-ment beyond the normal ,-urriculum, the program has been upended to include the upper jades (4-5). The sixth grade is not 'evolved. Of course, the student eachers from the University are ilso major beneficiaries of the program. Each student teacher is assigned to a "homeroom" teacher for regular class work and to another teacher for the interest center teaching. The centers allow both teachers and students to have contact with many different personalities. This contact is especially important in elementary schools because the whole year depends on relating to a teacher. The centers operate by allowing each child to do what they want for 40 minutes each day in a non-graded non-graded situation. The cooperating teachers and student teachers guide student activity, but allow the kids to have responsibility over their activity. According to Sharon Schieving, student teacher, the program lets' her "try out new ideas to see if they work." Miss Schieving believes student teachers can "learn more in that one hour alone than in a whole year." because good teaching depends on many varied experiences. Student teachers are on their own in the classroom more because their teacher also must spend time in the center away from the classroom. The program began last year |