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...function of a tutorial is to push students around, intellectually speaking: it is the most effective answer to the problem of getting a student to take a sophisticated position on the problems that will face him," Theodore R. Sizer, Director of the MAT program, explained last night...
...main advantage of the new system will be that it sends the candidates to the secondary schools during the first year, Theodore R. Sizer, director of the M.A.T. program said...
Although Conant proposes that teachers be drawn from the top 30 per cent of high school graduates, he gives no suggestions as to how this should be done, Sizer said. He claimed that the teaching profession today is nowhere near Conant's goal: too often teachers come not from the top of the academic ladder but from the bottom...
...Master of Arts in Teaching Program that Sizer directs has made special efforts to recruit good students from Eastern liberal arts colleges with no previous training in education. But Sizer pointed out that The Education of American Teacrers plays down the importance of such "fifth year" programs, and "is actually concerned with the big universities [which give undergraduate training in education]; Indiana, for example, trains more teachers in a year than all the M.A.T. programs in the country." Conant believes that a proper four-year bachelor of arts program--complete with courses in education and practice teaching--should be sufficient...
...Sizer had no quarrel, however, with Conant's recommendations for drastically revising state education laws to give immediate certification to any graduate of a legitimate teacher training program whose competence is attested to by the president of the institution...