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1 The Daily Nebraskan Student Teachers iriDsh Trcaiimiini' By Jan Itkin Junior Staff Writer Students and teachers would often seem to be poles apart. But the poles meet for 271 University students who are doing their student teach ing this semester. One of the requirements for graduation from Teachers College, according to Dr. Rus sell McCreight, supervisor of student teachers in elemen tary education, is the comple tion of a semester of student teaching. Applications are filed ap proximately sis months be fore the student wishes to teach, he said, and then the student is placed. Usually a student receives eight hour of college credit for a semester of student teaching and spends approximately one-half of each school day teaching. The rest of the day is spent taking regular undergraduate courses. The amount of responsibil ity a student teacher is given depends largely on his or her supervising teacher, accord ing to Dr. Bert Alfrey of Uni versity High SchooL "All grades are arrived at through the supervisor and the University office where the evaluations are checked," he said. Dr. Alan Seagren, principal of University High School and director of student teachers in secondary e d n c a t i o n, ex plained that grades are "usu ally high about the equiva lent of the old seven" for student teaching, but that by the time someone is eligible for student teaching "he should be pretty good." Interviews with three stu dent teachers revealed some of the problems and various experiences that they must cope with daily. Miss Hime Susan Hime, a senior in elementary education who is student teaching in primary two at McPhee Elementary School, said that student teaching was much different from what she had expected. "I had always heard stu dent teaching was so easy and that there was nothing to it," she explained, "but it takes a lot of time if you want to do it welL In fact I spend most of my time preparing for the next day." Miss Hime teaches all morning and attends Univer sity classes in the afternoon. There is a difference, she said, between attending classes full-time and half time. "Going to two or three clases isn't bad when you're used to 12 or more hours of academic courses at a time," she said. "It may be hard to study next semester though when I'll be carrying 18 hours." Although student teaching takes more time and work than she originally thought it would. Miss Hime feels she was "definitely prepared for r:;7 ,y X TV? L y y "v I x " ' j , SVV-"' " " . J it because of the method courses." "The students do have con fidence in us," she said, "and will come to as for help. In fact, they'll pretty much go to whoever is there for help." She cited as an example a day when some freshman tak ing Education History and Principles were observing her class and ended up answering questions about the words in a reading assignment. "The children were really impressed," she laughed, "when they found out their new helpers were freshmen football players." Mick Johnson Mick Johnson, a senior in Teachers College who teaches boys physical education at Millard Lefler Junior High School in the afternoons, said. "I was afraid of disciplinary problems at first, but there really has been no problems.', "Of course they're pretty sharp kids," he continued," and let you know when you do something wrong. Johnson teaches three classes a day one of seventh, one of eighth and one of ninth grade pupils containing about 55 students each. "I really thought student teaching was going to be hard and that I wasn't prepared to teach yet," he said. "But it's surprising how all the method courses I had taken just fell in places once I started." The students are not that much younger than their stu dent teachers. Johnson com mented, and that worried him at first. "My supermsing teacher has let me do what I want though and that helps," he said. "If the students know their teacher has confidence in j oil, so do they." "Some of the kids try to pull the wool over your eyes since we aren't much older than they are," he added, "but the added years means additional experience, matur ity, and I hope intelligence." Preparing daily lesson plans doesn't take much time. Johnson said. "I do them here and there whenever I get the time. It's preparing an over-all view of a unit that takes the time," he added. A unit, he explained, c n sists of three or four weeks In a specific area like football, volleyball, basketball, etc Aside from actually teaching his classes, Johnson also helps test the students and helps with the actual grading. "P.E. is not like the other courses where grading is con cerned," he said. "Attitude is an important part of their grade." , Miss Eschliman "My circumstances are a little different from most," reported Donna Eschliman, senior majoring in English and sociology. She teaches "Project Senior English" at University High SchooL She explained that instead of student teaching for one semester and receiving eight hours college credit, she will teach both semesters for a to tal of ten hours credit "That is how most student teachers of Project English (an advanced English course which ties in with the Univer sity curriculum) take their student teaching," she added. Having complete responsi bility of a class, Miss Eschli man noted, is a great deal of work. Q J f fO Phot br Ton RubiB MICK JOHXSOX . . . Practices basketball with one of his students in a daily workout "The first month, student teaching took all my time," she continued, "because it was difficult to know how to organize the program. Now it takes me on the average of one' to two hours a day to pre pare for my class." Since she has been teach ing, she said, she has noticed more about her teachers' classroom methods. 'It's very much a transi tion to go from directing your own class to being a student in someone else's," she said. "For the first time I am notic ing my professors' teaching methods and in some cases I get ideas for my class." "I definitely think student teaching is worthwile," she said. "In fact. I can't imagine going out and teaching with out it It is our first chance to put theory into practice. Friday, Jan. 1, 1965 Larsen, Tippitts IFC Nominees Gary Larsen, former Inter fraternity Council Affairs chairman, and Ed Tippetts, Delta Upsilon house president, were nominated for IFC pres ident last night Voting for the office will take place at the next IFC meeting Febr. 2. Also at the weekly meeting, a "dirty rush" amendment to the IFC by-laws was adopted. The amendment defines dirty rush as "any untrue or derogatory comment or action directed either by name or implication at any fraternity or group of fraternities" and "any action taken, in a rush ing situation, that may be deemed derogatory to the Greek system as a whole." Interviews for Food Mana gers Association committee workers will be held Sunday, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the IFC office. Regents To Dedicate East Campus Library Members of the University Board of Regents will meet at 10:15 a.m. Saturday in the Administration Building. They also will participate in the de dication program for the new C. Y. Thompson Library on the East Campus Saturday afternoon. Photo bar Tom Kubin SUSAN HIME . . . Leads a group discussion with several of her pupils. Mortar Boards Sponsor Lunch Mortar Boards will honor the top scholars among under graduate girls at a luncheon in the Nebraska Union Satur day at 1:30 pjm. Chosen on the basis of last semester's grade average, the top five girls from each class have been invited to the luncheon. Mrs. John Gradwohl, Lin coln attorney, will speak. The annual luncheon is also being held in memory of Har riet Hunker, an outstanding student who died in an auto crash last summer. Miss Hunker is also being honored as one of the top five girls in her class soholastically. Other girls to be honored are: seniors, Vicki Dowling, Marceine Sweetser, Mar go Wilson, and Mrs. Lenora Mey er; juniors, Louise Ellis, Jan ice Larson, Kathyrn Schach, Aurel Spivey and Erma "Win terer. Sophomores are Pamela Harris, Louetta Velte, Dean na Groetzinger, Linda Dierk ing, and Ruth Rasmussen. Alpha Phi Omega To Sell Textbooks Alpha Phi Omega is spon soring a book exchange, to be held from Jan. 24 to Febr. 3, aimed at helping the stu dent. Books may be bought or sold from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. iive cays each week. Clark SplichaL president of Alpha Phi Omega, a Univer sity service organization, ex plained the procedure for sell ing as follows: The student brings in a book which he would like to sell. He is giv en two cards to fill out, one for the master card file and one for the book, on which he lists the price he wants. A receipt is then given to him. The student comes hack at the close of the exchange per iod and presents his receipt. If his book has ibeen sold he is given the money, and if not he is given the book. "The student is out nothing but a little time," explained Ron Neel, chairman of t h e Senate bookstore committee. He said that if the book is not sold, the student may still take it to a bookstore. Procedure for buying books, as explained by SplichaL al lows for students to come in and choose the (book of their choice for the price listed. The card in the book is then placed in the master file. 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