.TiiufSday, July 19, 1956
SUMMER NEBRASKAN
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Henzlik:
Teacher Needs To Know
Each Child's Perceptions
"Teaching is no longer confined
only to presenting subject matter,"
according to Dr. Frank Henzlik,
dean of the University Teachers
College.
He said teachers also must know
.'their pupils, their background,
nd how each actually sees, feels,
end preceives his home, school,
classmates, people of the com
munity, and his world."
Dr. Henriik addressed the lunch
eon session of the Teachers College-Educational
Policies Commis
sion conference, entitled "An Ap
praise! of Education Today." He
discussed "Basic Concepts in the
Education of Teachers and School
Administrators."
He said that the teacher-training
program must provide experiences
go teachers can learn to work with
pupils rather than for pupils.
Dr. Henzlik said the motivation
el theory of learning, toward which
educational methods lean, stresses
that "the behavior of a human
being is largely determined by
prior experience, how he perceives
the situation and hit current inter
ests." He said our awareness of objects
'really comes from within oar-
selves and we make things and our
is, it it
Bard:
ifizonship
Citizenship education, "which ia
our time has a special air of rm
mediacy," has been ir liking great
strides in recent years, a Balti
more educator said last Thursday
Harry Bard, assistant director of
secondary curriculum bureau of
Baltimore Public Schools, ad
dressed the University Teachers
College-Educational Policies Com
mission conference at the Union.
Bard said: "We hear a great
deal about the need for more sci
ence teaching these days and I be
lieve this is important because we
need more engineers and the scien
tific race with Russia is getting
hotter.
"But the problems do not lie so
much in the lack of scientific
knowledge. For example we know
more about making steel than ever
before, but the current strike can
be a major catastrophe for the
U.S."
Discussing last winter's bus stop
page in Baltimore, he said the
trouble was not because "we didn't
know enough about the science of
motor traffic. The problems were
in human relations not in science."
Luncheon
"Friday International Luncheon"
will be held again Friday, in the
second floor dining room of t&e
Union.
Both foreign and American stu
dents are invited. Students make
their own selections from the raeuo.
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world what they are in relationship
to our own experiences, feelings,
ana purposes."
The old idea, he added, was that
the pupil or human being was only
a receiver.
"To illustrate, the light rays
are stimuli that impinge upon me
and I have to receive them as
they are. What is out there was
considered the important thing and
what was within me relatively un
important." But, Dr. Henzlik said, awareness
is more complex than that. "The
perceptions you have when you
are impringed upon by things
around you take place not in the
eyes or ears as we have always
assumed but back of the eyes and
ears wneVe- the experience is and
where the purpose is.
"What pupils see in a teacher
or in a classroom is often the
memory of earlier experience rath
er than a realistic observation f
the present. What, we perceive is
quite different from what some
body thinks we ought to perceive
The educator sa;d that this new
knowledge of the perception indi
cates that each individual lives in
a world of his own. "In this sense
it is unique for it is his world. It
can be ehanged only by sharing
and experiencing and doing things
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HENZLIK
with other people. The most im
portant thing is people because you
cannot build a human personality
out of things."
Turning to new trends in school
administration, he said that until
recently the job of a superintendent
was thought to be much like that
of a business manager, dealing
with buildings, budgets, and the
like.
"Now the superintendent's job
is largely one of human relation
ships," he added. "People not
things ara the goal.
"The small-town superintendent
of the future will be an expert in
the art of dealing with people; he
will be a community leader as well
as an educational leader.'
Lindborg
Educator Tells Teachers
'Dare To Be Yourself1
"Dare to be yourself" when
teaching, Nebraska Bchool teach
ers were urged at the opening ses
sion of the University Summer
Sessions' Teachers College confer
ence, "An Appraisal of Education
Today."
Lucile Lindberg, professor'of ed
ucation at Queens College, Flush
ing, N. Y., said that in too many
classrooms "we have pseudo-teachers
who are trying to be like some
one else.
"Trying to copy someone else's
scintillation, attempting to teach
ae someone else seems to think we
should makes us dull and uninter
esting." She stressed that a teacher who
dares to be herself is free to rec
ognize individual differences in
children and can arrange for stu
dent participation in worthwhile
community projects.
Admitting that size of school,
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amount of equipment and the way
in which the curriculum is or
ganized are important factors, she
said that they are of little conse
quence if teachers aren't able to
use them creatively.
Observers an hand for the two-
day conference were Wayne O.
Reed, assistant commissioner of
education, U. S. Office of Educa
tion; Maurice B. Mitchell, presi
dent of Encjlopaedia Britannica
Films, Inc. and Gordon Samson,
specialist Education Policies
Commissioev
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