Wells High School - Correlator Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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' , S is 66615 a local community leader or other dis- tinguished guest sat in conference. The check sheet of experiences made a most effective basis ,for student interviews with community leaders. These were mailed in advance to the citizens interviewed and the student in- terviewers returned them fill-ed with in- teresting and valuable comments in the majority of cases. Doctors, lawyers, bankers, business men, social workers, housewives, recreation leaders, person- nel people and merchandise' executives, pastors, priests, and other civic leaders responded cordially to the interviews. Many of them, including a labor worker, a police officer, and several ministers and church workers also attended small group meetings of parents, teachers, and students. Wells has six great student plan- ning groups. Delegates from each class in English Arts, social studies, scienc-e, and physical education comprise four of these, a School of Leadership com- posed of a boy and girl from each 4A Civics class forms the fifth, and the Stu- dent Council constitutes the sixth. Each of these large groups acts as a clearing house for matters that affect its respec- tive department in school lifeg and each what do the covfzmufzitgl leader . . and Hoe wizffadmwrzl . . . V and the mother . . . say? ' NI ' I J IH! llll' ui 13 '

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What do zfloe division teacher and the rlietificzzz . . . and the elzgizzeetr . . . say? I E119 - s i t w e l l l . ....,, I A, V D Z:-: f' a R E . . 2 S E Q A S 'A S IH 2 The check sheet, consisting of ninety- six suggested items of experience organized under the seven functions of living, was planned to accommodate a rating score as to comparative empha- sis. 'The relative importance of various kinds of experience for the high school student was then estimated by every teacher and every student in school, and then by a sampling of the views of graduates, Withdrawals, parents, and community leaders. The reverse side of the check sheet was planned to accom- modate free comment of any sort. At this point the faculty groups be- gan to- invite students to teachers' meet- ings to obtain their testimony. Students were familiar with the check-sheet, each student having discussed it for a period with his division teacherg but the list was only a point of departure for the voluble Wellsites, who took the Hoor and discussed student problems, to their hearts' content while the faculty sat back and listened. At the end of the hour nobody was ready to go home. Parents and students were fellow workers at teachers' meetings from this time on, throughout the year, and often

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