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Ouachita Baptist University Graduate Catalog 1969-1970, Ouachita Baptist University

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This is the 1969-1970 Graduate Catalog of Ouachita Baptist University, in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Teaching Aids In Mathematics, Sandra Lee Sawyer

Honors Theses

For many years, mathematics classes have had a traditional aura about them. The textbook has been the major source of material. The typical lesson consists of review assignments discussed in class, presentation of the new material usually by the teacher, some applications of these new concepts, and a homework assignment for the next day. This routine is repeated from day to day, term to term. The students are acting merely as machines. The teachers ask questions, and the students answer from memory. This is one of the main reasons why there is a lack of understanding in mathematics classes.

Some …

Occupational Therapy: Its Role In Rehabilitation, Margery Goodson

Honors Theses

Each year accidents and diseases before and after birth cripple many children. What has been and is being done to help these handicapped children?

Physical Education For Today's Youth, Susan Ann Todd

Honors Theses

I have dealt with the future trends in health and physical curricula and the problems young people face in physical education today. Each adult had their own ideal of recreation in their time of youth, but today's youth has a will and wisdom all its own. Thus, they must be permitted to see health and recreation in the future as something to look forward to. We must work to make this possible.

The Ouachitonian 1969, Ouachitonian Staff

OBU Yearbooks: The Ouachitonian

The 1969 Ouachita Baptist University yearbook, The Ouachitonian, records the events of this college year. Its goal is to remind readers of pleasant memories and enduring friendships formed at OBU, as well as of the students, faculty, staff, organizations, and events that shaped OBU in 1969.

A Study Of The Use Of Musical Drama In The Development Of Creativity In School Children, Beverly Gallegly Coad

OBU Graduate Theses

This study is a descriptive analysis of research and writings concerning the use of musical drama for the development of creativity in children of selected public schools across the United States. The intent of this study is to illustrate that the development of creativity by the utilization of musical drama is an important element in public school education.

A Study Of A Student Oriented Effort To Rehabilitate A Small Delta Town, Patricia Merry Stipek

OBU Graduate Theses

Mitchellville, Arkansas, a rural community of 150 displaced farm families in Desha County, is a relic of the agricultural past. The unskilled laborers pursue vocations of cotton chopping and cotton picking with little success. Vocational skills required in an urban society are sorely lacking. Affluence is nonexistent.

Governmental and private agencies are emphasizing the need of education for the citizens of the United States. The citizen of Mitchellville has been deprived of an adequate education. Even the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic are minimal.

Other areas where great need is reflected are recreation, health, housing, and employment. Mitchellville …

The Current Use Of Choral Church Music In Higher Education In Arkansas, Edwin Lee Rettstatt

OBU Graduate Theses

The purpose of this study were: (1) to survey the current use of choral church music in the music curricula of institutions of higher learning in Arkansas; and (2) to determine its influence and extent of use by the faculties of these schools during the 1965-1966 academic yer. In recent years there has been increased production of choral church music and some has or will be used in higher education. Because there is little evidence of investigation in this area with special thought to choral church music, a need was felt to take consideration of the subject.

This study was …

A Study Of The Treatment Of The Child With A Cleft Lip Or Palate, Charolette Duckett

Honors Theses

The elementary teacher will encounter many children in her experiences. Some of these will be handicapped; she will face the problem of helping these students adjust to regular classroom activities under her guidance. These handicapped children may have a wide range of mental, psychological, and physical disadvantages and may demand a little extra attention and ingenuity. This paper is a discussion of one possible type of physical handicap which causes secondary problems that may be encountered.

The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics, problems, treatment, and speech education of the cleft palate or cleft lip child. While …

A Survey Of Educational Literature, April Dunham Lane

Honors Theses

There is much literature being written today pertaining to the field of education. I feel that by reading this literature a perspective teacher can gain great insight into the profession of teaching. The problem today is that few people have enough time to read. Much of the valuable literature goes to waste sitting on a shelf.

I decided that for my special studies project I would read some books and see what I could learn. I feel that I have gained a lot from reading these six books. I have developed many new ideas which I think will be useful …

Mathematics Teaching In The Secondary Schools, Gail Ray

Honors Theses

Thesis: What are the rewards of teaching mathematics in the high schools?

As to the rewards in teaching mathematics on the secondary level, one must not look totally at salaries and fringe benefits, for these are very limited in comparison with other mathematical professions. One could easily become a computer programmer and double the salary he received as a teacher.

Bibliography Of Books For Use In Senior English Classes, Wanda Faye Williams

Honors Theses

This thesis is a bibliography of books for use in a senior English class. It is arranged by time periods, including the Old English period, Middle English period, Renaissance and Elizabethan, Seventeenth Century and Eighteenth Century, the Victorian Age, and the Twentieth Century. Each time period categorizes books further into people and material traits, government, literature and art forms, language, biographies, poetry and prose.

Education Book Reviews: Special Studies In Education, Lynda Bearden

Honors Theses

The following is a review of six education books that may help the inexperienced teacher:

We Do Not Throw Rocks at the Teacher! by Katherine C. La Mancusa

Slithery Snakes and Other Aids to Children's Writing by Walter T. Petty and Mary E. Bowen

Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman

The Saber-Tooth Curriculum by Raymond Wayne

Life in Classrooms by Philip W. Jackson

Children's Thinking by David H. Russell

Team Teaching, Charolette Ann Duckett

Honors Theses

One of the new concepts which has come to the forefront in our dynamic educational world is team teaching. In this paper, the general objective will be to provide a working definition of what team teaching is, to show how it works, and to find what the advantages and disadvantages of such an arrangement are.

Teaching The Culturally Deprived, April Dunham

Honors Theses

In our swiftly changing society there are new terms emerging everyday. One such term is "culturally disadvantaged child." It has only been within the past few years that Americans have begun to recognize the urgency and complexity of the problem in educating disadvantaged children.

The designation of cultural deprivation should not be equated with any particular ethnic group, but should be defined in terms of characteristics of the individual and/or the characteristics of his environment. The disadvantaged child comes from a family with an annual income of less than $3000. There exists a high level of unemployment forcing a reliance …

Creativity And The Creative Teacher, April Dunham

Honors Theses

Studies show that all children start life with a creative spark, but by the time they get to the fourth grade it is knocked out of them. This is because our schools and society as a whole tend to teach children to conform. They are expected to be just like everyone else. They are all taught to act alike, dress alike, learn alike, think alike, and on and on. Children soon learn which are the safest paths in life to follow. Soon they have hidden their creative potential so deep in never finds its way out again.

A Glance At The Showmanship Of Physics, John E. Savage

Honors Theses

"Teachers should present dramatic demonstrations of scientific principles and involve students in them. They should dispense fewer facts, ask more questions, and stir the intellect. Then the students will puzzle out the answers and remember them," says Professor Julius Sumner Miller of El Camino College in Southern California. "Remember this! If you're dead, and the text book is dead, you'll have dead students."

The classic example of the intellect being stirred by dramatic demonstrations took place in London when Sir Humphrey Davey gave the Christmas Lectures. Believe it or not, people paid to hear these lectures dealing with natural· physical …

A Study Of Certification Requirements, Teacher Salaries, And Teacher Benefits, Joyce Mason

Honors Theses

This report is based upon the information obtained from the replies to letters sent to each state department of education in the fifty states. In some cases, certain questions were not answered or the answers were not sufficient; therefore, additional information was obtained from educational books dealing with certification requirements, teacher salaries, and teacher benefits.

Special Education, Lynda Bearden

Honors Theses

One of the foundations of our present educational system in the United States is that of providing an education for all children. This principle has led to the concept of special education, a program of instruction specifically designed for special children--usually children who deviate from the normal to such an extent that a regular education program would be impractical and/or impossible.

School programs of education for special children are receiving increased emphasis. The special education programs in most states have doubled or redoubled in the past two decades. The basic, goading force behind recent developments has been the insistent parents …