Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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T H E 1 9 3 0 W I Z A R 1) Seeking aid (torn organized groups interested in individuals and families VISITING TEACHER MISS ERMA E. TODD has been visiting teacher at Edison since 1922. She is an experienced social worker. She says that children as well as grown-ups have problems. It is natural for the Edison student, because of the permanent advisory system, to make his first appeal when he is troubled to his friend, the adviser: but often the problem is too much involved for one who must spend regular hours in the class room, to solve. Unless the student has help at this time, his work will suffer. The Board of Education has recognized this and has provided a worker known as the visiting teacher to whom the student may come directly for advice and assistance. The work of the visiting teacher is done always with the thought of the good of the child uppermost in her mind. U' x-aiV ir our a neighborhood problem with the help of a parent Twentv-Four

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T II E 1 9 3 0 W I Z A R 1) MR. ROBERT E. ESTERLY MISS MARIE WATSON Placement Counn-lor and «enior bov Placement Coun elor and »emor girl Co-operation of the Board of Education Placement Department Referred by the coun elor and to be tent to job . EDISON BOYS ON THE JOB Drafting room worker . Co-operation of countclor and employer MR. R A. BATDORF Chief Engineer Northern Pump Work MISS ARTA E. KOCKEN Ed i ton School Countelor Twenty-Thru

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T II E 19 3 0 W I Z A K 1) In consultation with staff of the Child Guidance Clinic THEN there is the problem th.it directly concerns the child—his inability to become interested in his work, to make friends in school or out. to get along with members 'of his family or his teachers, to be happy, and to find enjoyment through normal outlets. Often these arc top serious and complicated for the visiting teacher to fathom unaided. The Board of Education has again made provision to meet this individual need. The Child Guidance Clinic, headed by Dr. H. E. Chamberlain and a staff of expert workers, stands ready to give help to the parents, to the child, and to the teacher, as needed. It is only with the helpfulness of the sympathetic parent, the understanding teacher and student body, the loyal alumni, and the socialized members of the community that good may come out of visiting teacher work. 28.000 miles—on school bittiness An older student it needed lor coaching: the response seems to be favorable T wen ty-Five