| Show supervisor evaluates Program at Elvin state supervisor of agricultural made a brief evaluation of the vocational agriculture program at Altamont High School on Downs remarked that the teacher turn-over at the Altamont High stating this had been far too much to develop a good sound program in vocational He made a few statements with respect to the philosophy pf volitional education supervisor of agricultural education is based on the four-step method of teaching prepare the teach the develop the skill is usually performed by completing some small exercise in connection with the instructional and project work where the student demonstrates ability to do the The student further demonstrates his ability to do the job in a practical This means demonstrating the skill on the farm or so on some large farm project that might be brought into the fourth step in teaching procedure- project work is by far the most Downs In a good on-going program of farm as much as 50 percent of the class time may be devoted to project Downs suggested that Verl Altamont's new vocational agricultural his instructional program so as to distribute the boys about the shop in two or three farm mechanic areas rather than attempt to teach everyone welding at the same is the common plan in teaching our farm mechanics he Vocational agriculture teachers are encouraged Offer good instruction in the classroom which involves the use of the text and demonstrations on the part of the require the completion of exercises in the farm shop that will demonstrate the boys' ability in connection with the skill being prepare the teach the develop the the The student demonstrates the ability to do the The student further demonstrates his ability to do the job tn a practical This means demonstrating the skill on the farm or on some large farm project that might be brought into the have always felt that vocational agriculture could make a real contribution at the Altamont High Tucker has excellent particularly in the farm mechanics and I hope he challenges the training of the boys particularly in the farm mechanics and I would hope that he would challenge the thinking of the boys in your not only in the field of but in the field in good farm mechanics program has served to explore several trade areas I would hope that such might be the case at your would like to make the following recommendations for you and your board to consider in the interest of good management and operation of the farm mechanics department at the Altamont High a policy for providing adequate instructional supplies in the five areas of farm mechanics I suggest that you refer to the bulletin entitled Guide To Better Agricultural Mechanics published by our office in August of this is a need for one-quarter Inch portable hand and for some other small tools and equipment in the following Farm power and farm Downs Other recommendations relative to the shop building and pur-cheses were listed in Down's letter to the local school |
