University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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Students enrolled in Business Education enjoyed the new. ultra-modern classrooms in Schneider Social Science Hall.

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Electronic Labs Added The Business Education department expanded from one classroom to its present facilities in the Schneider Social Science building during the 1967-68 school year. The department was provided with modern equipment, adequate classrooms and offices. Included in the building was a ten-channel electronic laboratory, a system through which lectures were recorded and later presented to individuals or entire classes by means of headphones. Students also gained teaching experience by instructing small groups of classmates and viewing their attempts on videotape, a method scientifically known as micro-teaching experience. Closed circuit television, installed for the second semester, allowed one instructor to conduct classes in two rooms by using television monitors. The department of which Dr. William M. Mitchell was chairman had four full-time instructors, one part-time, and one graduate assistant instructing more than two hundred students. Graduates of the program were qualified to teach business education or to become executive secretaries, business administrators, and office managers. A graduate program was also available where M.S. degrees in Business Education and M.A. degrees in teaching were offered. Richard Komro. in one of the new Business Education labs, practiced taking shorthand from a tape recorder. Nancy Pa»ow worked to improve her typing «peed and accuracy. 50

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Micro-teaching Expanded s. • The Elementary Education Division of the School of Education, which included both the elementary and upper elementary programs, contemplated a change in curriculum. The innovation would include a teacher preparation program for teaching children ages three through eight. The three programs would be collectively re-named the Early Childhood and Elementary Education Program. During the academic year 1967-68. over 800 students were enrolled in elementary education classes. Students in their Junior year used the micro-teaching technique which involved taking videotapes of the student-teachers as they taught a class in the campus school. The videotape segments enabled the student-teachers to see themselves in action and help improve their teaching techniques. The observation deck, located above the classrooms in the campus school, was equipped with one-way glass and special acoustical treatment. This allowed the students to “sit-in ' on classes unobserved to learn more about children's classroom reactions and attitudes. Sandy Mcllquham helped students draw name for Christmas gifts. Practice teacher developed her techniques as an instructor.