University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Modem, at o result of experimentation, research, ond progress, is one word which describes University High School. The school, established by the University College of Education. is a department in which educotion majors observe good teaching techniques and later practice them under close supervision by members of the college foculty. The students, numbering obout four hundred, come from all ports of the Twin Cities ond from families of varied backgrounds. The student body is selected with the thought of being representative of the Twin City oreo. Adequate individual attention is given to all pupils. Students are urged to work up to their moximum capabilities. The normal class sessions ore used by the foculty to corry on experimentation in methods of teaching, materials used, and curriculum. Many of the foculty members hove received the coveted PhD degree. Others are working toward higher degrees and attond dosses at the University. A unique feolure of the school is its closed-circuit television installation with which the staff is conducting pioneer research in the field of teacher education. The spacious librory is well stocked with a wide variety of books for reseorch ond recreotionol reading. In oddition to the main library, there are conference rooms which contain materials on topics of speciol interest. The Porent-Teacher Association acquaints the parents of U High students with the school activities and educational program. The meetings give the parents on opportunity to meet the foculty members ond other parents. Th tiwdvntt opfto't IK» u |vip n«M The iludwli' Hi or b«oediniit iKiovjk Kr«ali«nol nofr) A MODERN SCHOOL . . . A MODERN EDUCATION 3

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 THE EXPANDING HORIZON 0 o Wolf., W Cook This ycor the College of Education celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. Tho thomo of the anniversary, The Expanding Horizon, is being co-ordinated by Dean Walter W. Cook and will depict the history of the College. The College's motto is Golden Anniversary-fifty years of leaching, research, and service. The College of Education was established in 1905, by the Board of Regents, with the purpose of preporing men and women for teaching positions all over the nation. Resoarch by members of the staff on educational problems has brought the University of Minnesota world-wide attention. At the beginning of each quarter, many of the U High classes ocquire student teachers. These practicing teochers observo the doss procedures for the first few weeks. They then teach one or two units with the help of the regular teacher. While doing this, tho student teachers learn many things, such os how to get along with students of a particular grade and how to present units while putting to use the vorious teaching methods they hove leorned. The College of Education con be very proud of the fine trodition which it has set in the past fifty years. Pklvr. Wti Stvd.nl Lock. , S«ldon. rt preventing O unit which th. pr.portd h.rv«l to o junior English dots. Helm b lo : Siwd.ni i.och.r i ofl«n hotp student with iodrvidwol problem Hor . Chrittion Schmidt .iploini th. Oft ot moting Sgvrti with wir. to Money Niomon ond Bob Corny. 4