Milford chronicle., 1958-08-29
II OF ID Extension
Program Announced
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Education courses to be offered
in extension this year will be offer
ed at extension centers throughout
the state In addition to classes
held on the university campus In
Newark and in Wilmington, cours-
es will also be taught in Dover,
Georgetown, Harrington and Sea-
ford. Teachers engaged in full
time teaching by day will find OPP
portunity for further study every
night in the week during the
school year. ~
Designed. primarily for the prac-
ticing teacher and administrator,
the education program in extension
also offers opportunities for per-
sons with liberal arts to initiate
conversion programs leading to
eventual certification 10 teach in
the public schools of the state.
This function is regarded as es-
pecialIy important in view of the
threatened shortage of qualified
teachers.
According to Dean Penrose,
every effort is made to gear the
extension program directly to the
needs and desires of teachers, adj
ministrators and school systems
within the state. The extension
curriculum is based largely on
recommendation from instructors
in previous courses, state school
systems. and professional societies.
The expanded 1958-59 extension
program for education will include
at least q courses to be offered in
the fall term and 25 in the spring
session. 1t will include courses for
elementary and high school teach
ers, administrators and reading
specialists. The total 1957-58 en-
rollment in the education extension
program was about 535 students.
An enrolment of more than 700 is
anticipated this year.
Personnel from the dean of stu
dents office and the Fels Research
Center at the university, others
from the state department of pub
lie instruction, and leading local
administrators will be included on
the extension staff in addition to
the full faculty of the school of
education.
A sampling of extension offer
ings in education available this
year includes courses in improved
instruction in reading and science,
a spring seminar in educational ad-
ministration and several special
programs for professional improve
ment tailored to the specific needs
of individual school districts in the
state.
Courses of special interest in
cIude treating the development of
mathematical concepts to be taught
by DR.. John /. Brown, new men,
Der of the school of education fac
ulty. DR.. Brown received his BIS.
degree from La Crosse State
Teachers College in Wisconsin in
1888 and was granted his MS. and
Ph.D. degrees by the University
OF Wisconsin. From 1910 until 1856
teacher of mathematics in Wis
c0nsin public schools, he has since
been teaching mathematics and
education at the OneOnta IN. W
State University Teachers College.
He has been active for the past
three years ln the science teaching
Improvement PAO6AdH VI bhC
American Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Science.
Other courses of note will be
Books, Libraries and Children,
to be taught by Miss Carolyn w.
Field, co-ordinator of the Free LIZ
brary of Philadelphia; and "Audio-
Visual Instruction, which will be
offered by DR.. Harry @. Packer,
state director of distributive and
business education and author of
an outstanding text on audio-
visual materials.
The extension offerings in edu-
cation have been increased this
year, Dean Penrose said, for three
major reasons: ~ to serve the
state even more than last year,
(2) to assist the state department
of public instruction in its certifi-
cation program, and CD to meet
the training demand created by the
new state salary schedule, which
provides for salary increases for
teachers who successfully complete
courses equivalent to the next de-
gree for which they might have
been eligible. Dean Penrose specif-
ically cited Dr. Elizabeth G. Lloyd,
state director of teacher education
and professional standards and
former member of the school of
education faculty, for her assist
ance in preparing the. program.
Dean Penrose pointed out that
the university has maintained the
quality of instruction and study in
extension on a par with courses
offered In the regular session. In
structors drawn from outside the
university are selected with care,
and their presence is considered
an asset of the extension because
of their fresh viewpoints. Similar
ly, practicing teachers taking ex-
tension courses offer an unusual
opportunity to test the teaching of
the university in the laboratory of
their own daily classes.