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Show Plans In Progress For Education Meetings Par. 22 Mechanics of the Rural Education Educa-tion Conference to be held at Altamont Al-tamont March 22-23 decided at the January meeting of the board, include in-clude the following plans:' The gym at the Altamont school will be filled with 30 tables each to hold 10 people. There will be 15 tables on each side of the gym divider. The division of gym will take place after the introduction of guests is made to the general audience. Each table of 10 people are to elect a chairman who will have the responsibility of leading discussion and meeting at the end of the discussion with chairmen of the other 15 tables to summarize summar-ize findings. One of the 15 group leaders will act as chairman of the 15 and in turn will summarize at end of conference the findings of the entire group, After the division of the gym is made Group "A" and Group "B" will have the following topics to discuss: Group "A" What should our schools accomplish? How to get good teachers? How can we get a continuing public interest in-terest in education? Group "B" What are our school building needs? How can we finance our schools? In what ways can we organize or-ganize our schools more efficiently and economically? These topics will be presented in this way: For 30 minutes a guest speaker will present the issues is-sues involved in one of the topics, then the groups will discuss for one hour their feelings and will' list their decisions in each area so their elected group chairman can go in and summarize their findings find-ings with each of the other group chairmen. A new chairman will be elected for each new topic presented. |