University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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educating the masses lf therels a word to describe a career in education, it's patience. For the 5,000 education majors at the largest College of Education in the Southeast, learning patience plus a little caring and un- derstanding is what teaching is all about. HEvery aspiring teacher has to want to help other people, Amy Hughes, a junior from Sevierville, said. iiA really good teacher is hard to find. We're being taught not only to teach but to be un- derstanding. If you can work with kids, you can work with anybody? Education majors get an opportunity to put their patience into practice. Jane Finley, a senior from Houston, said every student must spend at least one quarter student teaching before qualifying for certification. She taught French at Tyson Junior High during winter quarter and felt it was beneficial to her career. I enjoy children and teaching mem what live learned, Finley said. One complaint Cited by education majors is that students in other colleges think that it is ex- tremely easy. Not so, according to Kathy Reedy, a junior from Kingsport. HMethods classes are not easy, Reedy said. HYou have to do lesson plans and create activities. They re- quire a lot of extra time and effort. Reedy described teaching as Hdeveloping lit- tle minds. HTherels so much in their minds when they are young even though they dont seem to have much potentialf' Reedy said. Ul may never see the results of my work, but lim still helping form who they will become. Patience is also a necessity for aspiring teachers in deaf and special education. Victor Cranford, a senior from Memphis, learned to sing, using hands to form letters, while on a choir trip and called his craft, uan opportunity to help people who may not be helped by regular communication. Cranford said it takes a truly dedicated per- son to be an interpreter. HYou can always spot interpreters. Whether theylre reading a magazine or singing a song, their fingers are always moving, he said. While most education majors concentrate on elementary or secondary teaching, many find working with handicapped children to be very rewarding. uThe handicapped deserve the opportunity to develop to their full potential, Bruce Anderson, a sophomore from Bristol, said. Special education is a lot more than teaching. It's developing personalities and hav- ing concern for people and what their future is going to be like, Anderson said. Terri Donovan, a senior from Knoxville, :alled special education a challenge because :eaching materials must be adapted to the para :icular needs of each special child. Hlt takes a great deal of patience, Donovan raid. She spent part of her field experience utoring a boy who had difficulty reading and vorking math problems. Hlt was a good ex- perience to tutor him but I wasnt really sure how much he had been helped, she said. She was delighted to hear later that the boy's mother had noted an improvement in his abilities. -MR.J Showing films can be a very important part of teaching. As most elementary teachers know, Eileen Combs, a graduate student in elementary education, experiments with different -C Sexton models of movie projectors. Academics h21

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Karate classes which are a favorite among many students W are just one of the many programs offered by the division of continuing education, Robert Heide. a sophomore in liberal arts practices some moves before the Class. SHARING . . . new day program added HWhetting the appetite of the housewife - a sort of alternative to soaps e brought about HThe New Day Program , according to Dr. Sam Bills, director of evening school. During fall quarter, 85 new students took courses at Central Baptist Church in West Knoxville, while the non-credit program offered classes in South Knoxville, Gatlinburg and Sevierville. In addition to the New Day Program , in the Division of Continuing Education, the evening school mini-term continued in its success from last year. The mini-term was held before and af- ter fall quarter, the later being more successful with 1,300 students attending, most of whom were seniors. Many seniors took the classes in order to graduate early or graduate on time. The evening school was also valuable to working adults, enabling them to get degrees in business administration, engineering and liberal arts by attending night Classes. The ma jority of students were about 27 years old, but ages ranged from 16 to 71. Most students took business courses with accounting being the most popular. The non-credit program offered about 190 courses during the year, an increase from the past. Non-credit courses were open to anyone wishing training, skills or just leisure education. Ages of students ranged from three months-in the aqua-babies swimming class-to 88 years old. Director D. Dan Kuchta said, HWe try to serve the Knoxville community. If there is a need for a course, we try to offer it. Class prices ranged from free to $630, with $40-$5O the average. New courses offered through the program included holography-the art of making three- dimensional photography-and preparation for law school admission tests. The most popular courses offered were skin and scuba diving, racquetball and karate. Donna McCoin, a senior in nursing, has been taking non-credit karate for 1 V2 years. She wan' -R. Wade ted to learn karate for protection, saying, ult gives you a knowledge of how to handle your- self so youTre not so stupidf Spring quarter karate classes tested equipment designed by student Barry Casseli. The non-credit program also offered classes associated with St. Marys Hospital and real es- tate companies. Non-credit sponsored the English Language institute which helped foreign students improve their English skills. Among ELI students, there were two Viet- namese refugees. -CEC Practicing her handwriting at a Thursday night class, Gail Skinnee learns the art of caligraphy in her illumination class. The course provides an introduction into 14th centuty French decorative style writing. ZOWAcademics

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ZZhAcademics -C, Sexton The Educational Media Center provides materials for stu- dents of deaf education to v1'deotape and audiotape them- selves for practice and self-evaluation. Through the videotape. interpreters can Check their signingt J.J. Johnson, a senior audiovisual aids technician, operates the equipment used to videotape individual students. Every winter quarter, a 10 week intensive interpreter's train- ing Class is sponsored by the UT National lnterpreter's Train- ing Consortium Students in the course are required to be able to sign what they hear on audio tapes from speeds of 60 to 120 words a minute. Shown in the lab, students review an interpreting training tape. Sleeping and doing nothing all day is what education senior Diane Davis did during snow days while student teaching winter quarter. Davis said, HThe worst part of student teaching is going to bed and getting up so early. The best part is the great supervisors at the university who are a big help. Davis taught kindergarten and second grade at Rocky Hill Elementary School