Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Diane Garcia proctors for her father, Mr. Alvin Garcia, Mr. Robert Pearl, Curriculum Associate of the Art De- director of the Audio-Visual Media Center. partment (in middle), shows Mr. Garcia in the threading procedure for a film projector while proctor Walter Stewart (far right) looks on. Unique Media Center Aids BHS Teachers Berkeley High School is one of the few schools in the country and the only school in the Pacific coast with its own audio-visual center. The Educational Media Center, as it is called, is de- signed to provide teachers with the extra media they need to perform their teaching function. The center, which was designed and put into effect last year by Mr. Alvin Garcia, is located in G 201. Most audio-visual centers are handled by School Districts, but the Berkeley School Board was willing to appropriate the money for Berkeley High ' s own center. This way there is not the transportation problem and everything is handy for the teachers. Projectors, overhead projectors, tape recorders, record players, and other audio-visual equipment is lent out by the center. There is even a closed circuit T.V. avail- able for use. This can be used to demonstrate close up work for a large group. Another function of the Educational Media Center is materials production. There is equipment at the center which can be used to make transparencies for overhead projectors as well as equipment to make stencils which will run up to 5,000 copies. (A ditto master can make only 100 copies.) There is also a file of up to date material in the audio- visual material field. Teachers may scan this file for ideas or new materials which are available. Mr. Garcia feels that the teachers are making good use of the center. He thinks this is reflected in the classroom by a change of attitude on the part of the students. He feels that they have become more excited and active with the aid of this equipment. Joyce Wallace has her picture taken by Mr. Garcia for her 1 4 ID card with the new Polaroid. Mr. Caroline Smid, Speech instructor, is making copies of some typing with the new reproducing equipment-

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Art Dept Covers Basics and Fads Mr. Robert Pearl, Art Department Chairman and Curricu- lum Associate, explaining arrangement. The purpose of the BHS art department is to ac- commodate the art major as well as the student who has an honest interest in the subject and is able to take a course before graduation, stated Mr. Robert Pearl, Art Department Chairman and Curriculum Associate. Mr. Pearl believes that the obligation to the art major is to see that he is equipped upon graduation to favor- ably complete either art instruction in an art school or to go out in the field with the basic skills and as varied a background as can be provided and developed. The responsibility to cover the basic foundation which the arts are built upon is the main goal of Berkeley High ' s art department. However, the introduction of cur- rent fads in art is also the duty of the department, con- cluded Mr. Pearl. Mr. William Dane Miss Diane Mr. John Costarella Baireuther Business Ed. Dept. Interested In Teaching Techniques of Business Mr. John Day and Mr. Philip Swinford, Curriculum Associate and Department Chairman respectively, of the Business Education department, are interested mainly in teaching students at both junior highs, West Campus and East Campus the techniques of the business world and economics. Mr. Day, who coordinates all business courses in the Berkeley school system, stated that through the aid of the state financial system, vocational improvements in business equipment have helped the development of modern teaching skills and subjects on the high school level. Mr. Swinford supervised a staff of eleven teachers. The object of this staff is to train students for jobs after high school and also to help with studying at a college level, and earning their way through college. The Internal Work Experience Program gives training to the participating students so they will be better pre- pared for working. The students are allowed to proctor for only one period and receive two and one half crec 1 ’ each semester. The proctors help teachers and admin trators with their routine duties except for the teachii process. Mr. Phillip Swinford, Business Department Chairman, and Mr. John Day, Curriculum Associate, fighting over telephone. Mrs. Carol Albright Mr. Eugene Brooks Mr. James Gayner