Word: huts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schools with HUT programs have been able to enrich their program by providing more courses. Because these courses--for example, a game-theory course in a Newton junior high school--are frequently esoteric, they are best taught by college students with information about new fields fresh in their minds...
...advantage of having a volunteer reduce a teacher's course load is an aspect of HUT which even the critics of student volunteering have acknowledged. HUT's usually take half of a class, either the "bright" half or the "slower" half, leaving the remainder with the regular teacher. The increased homogeneity usually results in a more responsive group...
...HUT now hopes to attract more volunteers to teach the "slower" half. Because teaching bright youngsters seems more appealing, few volunteers have taken up the challenge of teaching less intelligent student...
...registration this fall, 491 students indicated an interest in teaching for HUT. Yet at the present time, there are only 35 active teachers. This situation reflects a major problem which PBH now faces in its HUT program...
...screening of volunteers is one of the most troublesome aspects of the HUT program. Frequently a school system will accept student volunteers only on a tentative basis, ready to "fire" them on a moment's notice. Meeting this problem has consistently been a worry to PBH, since a single bad experience may build serious pressures for PBH to drop its program in that area...