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Show Adult Education Teachers Return Approximately 300 W P A adult education teachers and supervisors from all over the state are returning return-ing home this week from eight weeks of intensive training at the University of Utah, sponsored by the Utah W P A adult education program and the state department of public instructioon, it was announced an-nounced this week by Mack Nico-laysen, Nico-laysen, state director of education and recreation. e and recreation.' Included in the group returning for the university this week is Viva Gray of Milford. For the first six weeks at the university, the W P A teachers attended at-tended the regular six weeks' summer sum-mer school held annually at the university. They studied under the regular university faculty and took classes for credit along with ether students registered for the . summer session. ; Following the regular summer session, beginning on July 2G, the W P A teachers carried on a two weeks' institute under the direction direc-tion .of C. L. vanderBie, principal of the Los Angeles evening high school. During this period the teachers worked on special adult education courses which they will use this winter and on methods of teaching adults. During the regular summer session ses-sion of the University of Utah, the teachers studied under Dr. F. M. Yockey, principal of the evening school at Oakland, California, who gave two special courses in adult education. They also studied under a number of nationally known specialists in various subject matter mat-ter fields, including Dr. Velma Phillips from Ohio State university, univer-sity, who taught problems in consumer con-sumer buying; Dr. David M. Levy: a New York psychiatrist, who taught psychiatry and social work; Dr. Harold S. Tuttle of the College Col-lege of the City of New York, who taught philosophy of education; Dr. Spencer D. Parratt, head of the department of public admin-(Continued admin-(Continued on last page) Teachers Return (Continued from page 4 istration at Syracuse university, who taught in the field of (political science; and Dr. Ruth Lindquist of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Tech-nology, who taught household management and family relations as well as a selected group of regular university faculty members mem-bers who taught courses. ' "There can be no doubt that this splendid program of training which our WPA adult education teach-; fcrs and supervisors have had the j opportunity of gethng will raise ; materially the already high stand-! ards of teaching carried on by our; adult education teachers in the ! state," Mr. Xieolaysen said. "The teachers have all been taking work for credit this summer, and have . received from seven and one-half j to nine quarter credit hours. Ini most cases, this is more than the j amount that is required of public I school teachers by the state department de-partment of public instruction to keep their certificates active for five years. "The universi'y has made every effort to turn its excellent facilities facili-ties to the most economical and effective use of our adult education educa-tion teachers", Mr. Nicolaysen continued, con-tinued, "and I feel sure that the whole state will reap the benefits from this splendid improvement ot our teachers' qualifications". The teachers will corinue. to work on their courses outlined and plan their winter teaching programs pro-grams during August, and will begin be-gin classes in most areas in the early part of September. |