Program trains foreign teachers
Classroom culture
taught by institute
By Sarah Scalet
Staff Reporter
Before foreign teaching assistants
can be recommended for teaching
assignments at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, they must undergo
an intensive training program, an
official said.
Mindy Brooks, instructional con
sultant for teaching assistant programs,
said successful completion of a train
ing course through the International
Teaching Assistant Institute became
a UNL requirement in 1990.
The institute was founded in 1988.
Teaching>ikills of those who com
pleted the program improved, she said,
which prompted UNL to adopt the
policy.
Students who choose not to spend
three intensive weeks in the institute
can attend a fall session, Brooks said
For this session, the credit hours are
spread over the semester.
Participants leam about UNL, U.S.
classroom culture and basic teaching
skills. They also have daily language
lessons.
Programs about affirmative action
and sexual harassment are included,
Brooks said.
At the end of program, partici
pants fill out an anonymous survey.
Although most of the comments are
positive, Brooks said, “I think there
are a lot of misunderstandings about
the institute.”
One misconception is that the in
stitute aims to turn the foreign teach
ing assistants into Americans, Brooks
said. However, the goal is to make
them understandable teachers, not
Americans, she said.
To be admitted to the institute,
teaching assistants must pass spoken
English requirements and be recom
mended by their department, Brooks
said.
Seventy-one percent of the stu
dents who participated in last sum
mer’s program were recommended
for teaching assignments, Brooks said.
Recommendation is determined by
a rigorous panel process, she said.
The student makes a presentation to a
panel and then answers their ques
tions.
The five panel members make their
decisions in a “slow, thoughtful proc
ess,” Brooks said. They ask them
selves, “Could I learn . . . from this
person?”
Students become eligible for teach
ing if at least four panel members
recommend them, Brooks said.
Those students who are not rec
ommended can repeat the panel proc
ess at the end of the next session
although they do not have to repeat
the program, she said.
“It really is a good program... but
it does require hard work and giving
up some summer,” Brooks said.
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Overcrowding, alcohol
East Stadium problems
By Tom Mainelli
Staff Reporter
Overcrowding and alcohol-related
problems in Memorial Stadium’s east
side has become a serious concern,
university officials said Friday.
“It’s a growing problem, with more
people sitting in sections than there
should be,” said Don Bryant, assis
tant athletic director.
About 15 university officials, in
cluding Ken Cauble, chief of the UNL
Police Department, Jim Griesen, vice
chancellor for student affairs, and Butch
Hug, assistant ticket manager of the
athletic ticket office, met Tuesday to
devise a plan to alleviate the problem.
The plan, which will be used at
Nebraska’s next home game Ocl 19th,
calls for increased security to monitor
fan movement into and within the
overcrowded East Stadium.
To pass through gates that close
off the area directly behind the play
ers’ bench, fans must have the proper
ticket. Tickets also will be checked
before people are allowed up various
ramps that lead to sections in the East
Stadium.
Hug said he will hire an additional
12 to 16 security personnel, most likely
from Guardsman Security Services
of Lincoln.
Hug said checking tickets is time
consuming, but increasing the amount
of personnel should “keep things
moving.”
The overcrowding problem became
most apparent during Nebraska’s game
against Washington Sept. 21, Cauble
said.
“The Washington game was
packed,” Cauble said. “It got so bad
they (the fans) were pushing into the
band. Students were standing side
ways.”
Cauble said the overcrowding is
dangerous and inconvenient because
it prompts fans to stand on seats and
in the aisles, making it difficult for
people behind them to see.
Cauble also said that overcrowd
ing often turns the game into “more of
a party atmosphere then a sporting
event.”
From that party atmosphere more
problems emerge, such as excessive
drinking, he said.
Cauble said alcohol isn’t supposed
to be brought in to the stadium, but it’s
hard for ticket checkers to detect,
especially as it gets colder and bulk
ier clothing is worn.
“It’s real difficult to keep it out if
people really wantto get it in,’’Cauble
said.
Cauble said police confiscate a
considerable amount of alcohol dur
ing the game, not just from students,
but from older fans as well.
“We don’t feel like we’ve got a
bunch of rowdies,” Cauble said, “but
50 out of 5,000 makes them all look
bad. It doesn’t help our image.”
Bryant spoke similarly, “(Our) fans
have got a good reputation, and we
want to keep it.”
It’s that reputation, and more
importantly fan safety, that officials
hope to protect with the new plan.
“This may or may not work, “
Cauble said, “but we have to try
something before someone gets hurt.”
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ess.
“We show students good note
taking techniques and some things
they might have missed in their own
notes,” he said.
Donlan said that he tries to contact
professors by mail or by telephone
before classes begin but that it’s
sometimes difficult to do over the
summer.
Jon’s Notes are promoted as a study
aid, he said, not as a substitute to
attending class or taking individual
notes.
“Jon’s Notes alone won’t do any
thing,” Donlan said.
To promote proper use of the notes,
Jon’s Notes will begin to supply sub
scribers with instruction packets on
how to take advantage of the notes
next semester, Donlan said.
Donlan agreed that the notes can
be abused. But generally, he said, the
notes are perceived as a study aid by
both students and professors.
Since his company began in 1984,
Donlan said only three professors,
including Burnett, have been disap
pointed with and canceled use of his
notes.
Of the professors he contacts,
Donlan said roughly 75 percent agree
to allow the notes in their classes.
John Janovy, professor of biologi
cal sciences, said he has not had any
problems allowing Jon’s Notes in his
general biology class. He said he uses
diem to ensure that material he puts
on his tests has been covered in class.
Before Jon’s Notes, Janovy photo
copied one of his student’s notes for
the same purpose, he said.
“I use Jon’s notes now because I
gel them for free and I don’t have to
spend lime or money photocopying
notes,” Janovy said.
Janovy said his main concern is
having a quality note-taker for his
classes. He personally chooses the
note-taker for his class, he said.
Janovy said he was only dissatis
fied with the quality of notes one
semester.
But Bill Glider, teaching lab coor
dinator for the School of Biological
Sciences, said he thought Jon’s Notes
could be harmful.
“My personal feeling is that they
(Jon’s Notes) are a real crutch,” Glider
said.
Biology classes already offer free
supplemental instruction sessions to
help students fill gaps in their notes,
he said
Etonian said he plans to meet with
Burnett at the end of the semester to
discuss the possibility of using Jon’s
Notes in her classes in the future.
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