University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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SdoCCJtfiOK PIIACTII'E DOES IT Those people you never saw this year—the ones who dashed about from hither to yon-thc ones who knew every bus schedule ami driver—they were the education department. Although a record has never been kept, it can he stated that practice teachers and internes are the best-travelled students at the University of Miami. Their daily routine goes something like this: 7 a.m. Up and about. 7:30 a.m. First phase of the journey. This takes the p.t. or interne from home (which is usually at least seven miles from the University) to a bus-stop where she (very few lie's ventured the teacher training course this year) could flag a Gahles bus. 8 a.m. Gahles bus passes, loaded to the teeth. 8:10 a.m. Ditto 8:20 a.m. Ditto 8:30 a.m. Ditto 8:40 a.m. Ditto 8:50 a.m. Student teacher has lost so much weight from worrying that she is finally able to squeeze into a late bus. 9:10 a.m. A mail dash for Rural Soc. class, which has somehow disappeared and now seems to he replaced by navy pre-flight training. (But it always turns up again.) 10:00 a.m. Similar dash for slop shop to find the “ride to the practice teacher's senior or junior high school station. Seems that the “ride has mysteriously taken flight six minutes ago. (Next time, the p.t. promises herself, she’ll remember to comb her hair later.) This procedure continues and by 11 a.m. the practice teacher hac arrived — weary, broken of spirit, head bowed, and eyes glassy. Four busses can do that. From 11 a.m. to approximately 3 p.m. the student teacher has her hands full of children, all of whom are considered perfect angels and 17

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'MtaneAiay ‘SaucC HOI' II LEI) l IK HASS By dint of a few desperate expedients, including the impressment of high school musicians into serxice and the admission of women musicians to the ranks for the first time in history, the I niversity's Hurricane Marching Band managed to survive the foot-hall season, despite predictions of its early dissolution. About half the sixty-man marching unit were literally drafted from the nearest high school and high pressure drilling spruced the crew up to appear at the first game “ready for action. The “mixed company was perhaps the first thing the fans noticed, although it must he admitted that the widely-varied heights were also an eye-catcher. Perhaps the most popular stunt of the year was bringing hack the how and arrow maneuver from a drill of past years, although even that did not escape entirely from near-destruction. Only several minutes before the hand was scheduled to march on the gridiron, a young musician confessed that he had not brought his instrument. Questioned, he admitted, “I forgot it. ' He didn’t say he’d mis- laid it around the house, or that he’d thought he had it with him. No, he had just calmly walked out of the house without his tuba. Among other oddities, it may he noted that the hand, in an endeavor to remain a united group during the entire game, employed water-hoys to keep their parched throats in shape for the blasting between the halves. Although it enabled the musicians to remain in their seats, it kept the water hoys on the run. Remarked one of them, “Gee whiz, I never knew college hoys could drink so much.” Of the characters of the hand, it must he admitted that Johnny Brennan did an admirable job of drilling the aggregation, although getting its members out of bed before breakfast for three months proved no easy task. Muriel Smith, head majorette, was back again to lead Marion Meyers. Carol Jane Shaffer, and Kitty MacDonald, the chosen assistant twirlers. in exhibitions between the halves. Dr. Modeste Alloo. new conductor of the musical end of the program, brought many heretofore-unappreciated marches back to the public. Karl Kruse and Tom Lloyd had the thankless tasks of keeping all the music together. the filing, and the general duties of librarians, in addition to the unanimous hard grind of rehearsals for action on Saturday afternoons, murikl smith 16

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At tho Morrick Demonstration School tho Education iaculty is Bergh. Dr. McMaster, Cornolison, Fox. Dr. Ross. Dean Foster. McCarty. Shaw. Hostor. Donahue. Shufdin. Davis, and Windman. little geniuses l y loving parents. The student teacher has another name for them. Some of the choicer anecdotes about interning in education you've probably had straight from the bleary-eyed student teachers themselves. Example: The ninth grade civics pupils were assigned to interview an outstanding member of the profession or vocation they planned to enter. Seems that one hoy interviewed an undertaker and had so much fun getting locked in a room with corpses and lying in an empty eoflin (The p.L wildly supposed he must have been testing for size) that after he made his report local undertakers were besieged by visits from junior high school students requesting tours through the morgue. To continue with the saga of the student teacher: At approximately 3 p.m. the p.t. (not to lie confused with the p.t. of obstacle course fame) reroutes herself to the I niversity. Conversation from the bus-driver has included such topics as (a) the best way to raise rabbits: (b) an introduction to some Russian midgets who work at a defense plant and ride the same bus. After the sixth transfer, the p.t. is revived in time to get off at the University. Then comes a period of wandering around in search of the f o'clock education class which, like 18 the slop shop, has wandered from thence to thither in the course of the year. One p.t. was sent to the third-floor ladies' room by someone in the registrar's office who insisted that the ed class was scheduled there. When the p.t. finally finds the ed. class (it roosted in the journalism lab during the second semester) she spends a few minutes with her cohorts discussing the new bus schedules. The class itself consists of a lecture on teaching by I)r. Cecil Ross, who was added to the faculty during the first semester. Rut that isn't all. In her spare time each p.t. keeps a diary of her doings (“Henry made a lovely report on the life of Shakespeare today. “Isabel was shooting spit halls at the hack of my neck every time I wrote on the blackboard.”) an attendance record, a professional log (containing those interesting little tid-hits of information that make a teacher seem to wise, like the population of Azusa or the principal export of Peru), lesson plans, etc. The interne has it easier than the species of ed. student known as the practice teacher. She hibernates at Merrick or some other elementary school of one semester, while the practice teacher flits from the University to her grade-school sessions for one whole year. The result is the same in both cases, except that the interne gets it faster. For that certificate both the interne and the practice teachers spend hours, in class and out. learning the principals and history of American education and the American constitution, and enroll in little irrelevant courses like play production for teachers, the elements of school library service, ami conservation of natural resources. They take a course in educational psychology from Dr. Charles Foster, dean of the school of education, which is known as a half-breed course. Psychology majors list it for psych credit and education majors put in on their hours of required courses in education.