Show Toy Lending Library In Operation Governor Calvin L. Rampton will look in on the Toy Lending Library Teacher Training Workshop Board Offices of the Utah State Board of 1400 University Club East South AS CHAIRMAN of the Education Commission of the States task force on Early Childhood he became extremely interested in programs for pre-school This program is an alternative to placing these young children outside the home for the education which can really help School districts train mothers in eight weekly sessions in the most effective and educational way to teach their children while playing with them and specific educational THEN THE mothers can check out the toys just as they would check out library Mothers who have been through the program are very enthusiastic and eagerly tell their friends about the according to Roger who is in charge of the program at the state school In the week-long training session now going on in the offices of the State Board nf Edna director of the Toy Library Program for the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and is training about 15 prospective directors of future toy SHE HAS been one of the developers of the program and will go to Japan this spring because that government wants to implement the program into their school In addition France and England have requested that data gathered by Utah and the Far West Laboratory be sent to At least six Utah school districts will be instituting Toy Library Programs at their own expense in the near They Salt Lake Box Alpine and Several other districts may join this group REPRESENTATIVES of the Interchange of Educational Innovation Conference from Kentucky and Connecticut have also been attending part of the A paper on Utah's progress with the program will be presented during the winter meeting of this international body in New A follow-up paper will be presented to the group's meeting in Paris in the ASSISTING Brown in the workshop has been Bertha also a laboratory |