North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Business students learned many skills Students studying clerical work are ta ught how to operate many kinds of business machines, including adding machines, xerox machines, mimeograph machines. Two students be- New to the Business Departnnent and the Fort Wayne Community Schools was Distributive Education. By this Redskins were enabled to combine their basic background of typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, busi- ness law, and selling with actual work experience. Students formed their background by enrolling in any of seven business courses. The fundamentals were covered in the general business class, which is es- sential to all business-minded ' Skins. hiandling records of business and personal income was the main purpose of the bookkeeping classes. Business Law taught students the legal aspects of longing to the special service center are operating a xerox machine. management. Legal principals, practices, and pro- cedures were also covered. After ' Skins have successfully completed one year of typing and one of the shorthand, they are eligible to enroll in the advanced shorthand class. Pupils who ore able to take this subject spend one hour a day taking dictation and another hour translating it on the typewriter. Methods of marketing and displaying merchandise ore among the topics studied in the selling class. Advertising is also covered. Mrs. Johnson listens in while one of her students takes dicta- tion from shorthand tapes. 24 Business

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Students gained experience for teaching S Igns of 5p.,. Kain ma tes l ie aras? - A arttn. - r lowers one plan-l-s Ring-around-around-the-rosey? This is one example of the varied studies exploratory teaching students make. Nancy Jennings, a future teacher, is checking out the bulletin board to see that everything is in order. Mr. Schoonover explains to students Tom Moore, Sue Keith, and Dave Cashdollar some valuable assets in teaching cor- rectly. Mr. Lester Grile, superintendent of schools, and Dr. Lloyd Bridges, president of the Board of Education, spoke to the students in explorotory teaching on the different aspects of school administration and teach- ing. These visits were designed to help the group understand better all that their intended professions would entail. The exploratory teaching course, taught by Mr. Augustus Schoonover, was open only to seniors who were planning on teaching as their profession. Be- cause the course involved traveling to other schools, it required the time of the first two hours of the day. During the first semester the students prepared unit plans and discussions as teachers do. They also were responsible for designing and preparing bulletin boards. Traveling to other schools began toward the end of this term,- it involved observing teachers in kindergarten through the ninth grade. The second semester allowed the students to choose one of the teachers they had observed and with her permission be a kind of student teacher in her room. This gave them the opportunity to participate in the classroom. Exploratory teaching 23

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Mathematicians drew figures for help In her advanced algebra class Mrs. Nusbaum shows Karen Belchner how to solve the problem on the board. As his geometry class works earnestly, Mr. Bickel takes some time to help one of his students understand the equation he is solving. Redskins were offered five courses in the mathematics department from which to choose. College-bound students were encouraged to take a math course each year of high school. The fundamentals served as o background for ad- vanced courses and as a help in other courses which required calculations. In their math classes students became involved with such skills as drawing and reasoning in their efforts to reach exactness. Beginning and advanced alge- bra, geometry, trigonometry, and senior mathematics were offered. Arlene Rowald and Tim Strong watch Mr. Clark write out steps taken to reach their solution to the problem in advanced algebra. Moth 25