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Show Southern Districts Need Teachers With Rural Training With 73 per cent of all rural schools in the nine school districts dis-tricts south of Nephi operating as ungraded institutions -- that is, with students of more than one grade being taught in one room by one teacher a heavy responsibility lies with the teacher teach-er training program at Branch Agricultural college. I Dr. Reese P. Maughan, chairman chair-man of the division of education i at BAC, readied that conclusion i following a survey he completed (recently. The fact that nearly three-fourths of tne schools in a large area of southern Utah are I ungraded shows the need for teachers prepared for work in such schools, Dr. Maughan said. While only 27 per cent of the schools are completely ungraded, about 43 per cent ot the teachers teach-ers in school south of Nephi are teaching in ungraded classrooms. "The program in teacher-training at BAC must therefore emphasize em-phasize the rural aspects of education," edu-cation," Dr. Maughan stated. "The college is in a strategic position po-sition to train young men and women to serve in small communities com-munities where living in everyday every-day life is rural," he added. Most of the students who graduate from BAC with degrees in education educa-tion are from southern Utah and have an interest in and appreciation appre-ciation for rural life. Teacher training at the college col-lege includes practice teaching and observation in the elementary elemen-tary school of Cedar City and in smaller schools in the vicinity. Acquaintance with the one- and two-room schools near Cedar City is an important part of the training train-ing of each student, Dr. Maughan indicated. His survey also showed that about one-third of elementary school teachers in the nine-district area are men. Eighty per cent of students taking practice teaching at BAC in the current quarter are men, a much larger percentage than in the past, Dr. Maughan said. |