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Show Know Voui Schools the business management of the district, the clerk must be inform ed on matters of insurance costs data in the various divisions of the school program, as well as stat st ical information. In this she also assists in the preparation Dtorbroadened educational program .incorporating some phases pha-ses of summer school programs (kindergarten, recreation), as wen as a year-round program enlarged by the school lunch, the veterans in agriculture, adult education, etc. the details and cleancal work in the district office have increased to the extent that as extra person is now employed to assist with the clerical duties. THE WORK OF THE ELEMENTARY ELEMENT-ARY SUPERVISOR The work of the school, supervisor super-visor is to improve the teaching, learning situation. She is a guide and helper to teacher and student, it follows that a supervisor must know much child psychology and Hp knowledge of teacn- In discussing the administration of the local school district as we did recently in this series of articles, art-icles, we cannot overlook the people peo-ple behind the scenes that are also responsible for a smooth running educational organization. The clerk of the school board, the primary supervisor, the school lunch supervisor, super-visor, and the dircetor of public relations and adult. DUTIES OF THE CLERK OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION The work of the clerk is necessarily neces-sarily in a business capacity. Since she is directly responsible for the receipt and disbursement of mony used in the school program, there is considerable "paper" work involved. in-volved. Her primary responsibilities center cen-ter around the issuance of two monthly payrolls; a salary pay -roll of $25,000.00 and a general payroll of about $28,000.00. Attending Attend-ing tthe issuance of these payrolls is the bookkeeping for same which is done on a monthly basis and brings the figures of the district's receipts and expenditures up to date for budget purposes as well as for report purposes. The clerk, together with other school officials, is responsible for the ordering of supplies, both school sch-ool and custodial, as well as the miscellaneous items necessary in the operation of the schools. In order that she may assist in ing methods. It is necessary for her to be an expert in the field of elementary education. She must know the interests and needs of children of different ages and abilities; ab-ilities; and she must have a sound education philosophy, but equally equal-ly important, she must know how to demonstrate and show teachers how to teach in order to provide the help needed. Her qualifications are similar to those of professors in teachers colleges. The supervisor gives standardized standard-ized tests to furnish more accurate knowledge of pupil attainments and future- needs. She must be familiar with the contents of just about all the textbooks text-books that are printed. Book companies com-panies send her free copies of new books as fast as they come off the press. She studies these and evaluates them. She recommends that purchasing of textbooks in ac mordance with the needs of the different schools. It is therefore very important that the orders for all textbooks and other teaching aids be channelled through the sup ervisor's office. Another duty of the supervisor is to help interpret the work of the schools to the. parents and explain ex-plain the reasons why the new schools are better than the old. In compact, thickly populated school systems there ar supervisors supervis-ors and directors for each age group such as primary supervisor, elementary supervisor and Junior High supervisor. There also subject sub-ject specialists, library supervisor and test director. In these systems sys-tems the supervisor's work is car- ried on large in work shops and study councils held with groups of teachers after school hours. In large, sparsely populated areas ar-eas school systems such as Millard Mill-ard County, only one supervisor is employed for all elementary grades and subjects. The great distances make work shops imposs ible, so the work is carried on by the supervisor going into the classrooms and working directly with the individual teachers and pupils. In Nov., the superisor travelled trav-elled 1550 miles te schools. Teaching, like other professions, is constantly being improved. It is the duty of the superivsor to read many new teachers' books and school magazines and journals, to attend education conventions of the state and nation and keep posted on the advancements. In summer vacation she attends summer sum-mer school. |