Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article points up the biggest weakness in teachers colleges today-the superfluous number of "methods" courses. We future teachers are mired in a curriculum of "how to teach" courses, while neglecting the most important aspect of teacher education, a well-rounded liberal arts background...
...there is another very important aspect of this flexibility: it allows for a certain amount of stratification in the teaching profession. The educators connected with the Team-Teaching Project feel that some "differentiation of prestige and function among the teachers" might increase initiative, and thus the efficiency of instruction, while at the same time dignifying the role of the superior teacher...
...this stratification is the "team leader," a teacher of unusual talent, ordinarily possessing ten or more years of experience and a Masters Degree or the equivalent. His duties include the direct responsibility for curriculum planning and development and the supervision of inexperienced teachers and those of modest ability...
...senior teacher" is an experienced, mature person with above average talent, a prestigeful position comparable with that now held by the well regarded career teacher...
...other classification, in the order named, are part-time teacher, professional intern (a person currently being trained for teaching), resource person (adults whose careers are in fields other than teaching, but whose special talents lie in fields where the regular school staff has insufficient strength), and clerical aide (adults with no professional preparation who are able, with a minimum of training to assist in various routine and nontechnical aspects of the team's daily work...