| Show I Call Teachers Back to College j By JAMES NEWSOM 1 Chronicle Staff Writer Editor's The following story is the first in a three fi-t series describing the Academic Year Institute which is on the University campus sponsored by the Nation-j Foundation of Each year it allows hundreds of ere teachers to return to school to earn their masters Seven years ago the National Science Foundation recognized a national educational bottleneck and I set out to find a means of solving 58 colleges and universities have joined an experiment to the competence of high school teachers in the areas of natural science and and do I I it in a new and unique THOMAS J. head of the University of Utah's Department and director of I Academic Year put it this ws and is a growing concern over the qualifications school science Many of them have Ken forced to teach classes in subjects outside their specialized education in order to deal with the shortage of qualified instructors in their high r of our high school teachers have had only general instruction in the teaching of the specialized classes now being offered in the larger high Parmley only answer is to call these teachers back to the universities and colleges to prepare them to meet a new During the years of 1956 and the National Science Foundation pioneered the first Academic Year Institute program at the University of Wisconsin and Oklahoma State THE FOLLOWING YEAR the program came to the University and today more than in grants from the Foundation are awarded to participants on this This year more than 45 men and women are taking advantage of this opportunity to better had planned the program to last only three Parmley the results have been so rewarding that seven years later we are still playing with the |
