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Ua64/14 Student Teacher Placement Cards - O Surnames, Wku College Of Education

WKU Administration Documents

This document contains the WKU Placement Bureau cards used to place student teachers in schools around Kentucky. The cards give the students’ name, college, position wanted, number of credits and work history. Some cards have a photograph attached. When the photos are detached they immediately follow the student’s card. This particular file contains cards for students Oakes to Oxford.

Ua64/4 The Western Kentucky Human Relations Center For Education, Wku Human Relations Center

WKU Administration Documents

Working report created by the WKU Human Relations Center regarding the creation of the center and the work proposed to be done in creating a smooth transition from segregation to desegregation in Kentucky schools.

An Analysis Of Student Teaching And Organizational Climate, Robert E. Buscher

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.

Teacher Reaction To Teacher Evaluation In Ventura County, California, Wilbur F. Powell

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.

Ua3/3 Today's Image Of The Laboratory School, Kelly Thompson

WKU Administration Documents

Address given by Dr. Kelly Thompson, President of Western Kentucky University at the annual meeting of the Laboratory School Administrators Association in Chicago, Illinois.

Ua100/2/1 Training School Director's Report To The President, Wku Training School

WKU Administration Documents

Report regarding the administration of College High and the Training School at WKU. Includes:

• Training School Faculty & Staff
• Physical facilities
• High school schedule
• Student teaching
• Philosophy & objectives
• Social program
• Academic improvements
• Professional development
• Athletics / Assemblies
• Textbooks
• Accreditation & Statistics
• Honors study hall
• Guidance counselor
• Admissions policies
• Funding

The Contribution Of The Parent-Teacher Conference To Home-School Relations, Iola Allain Ferris

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The High School Graduates Of Bullitt County, Kentucky, Thomas S. Jeffries

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

With the advent of the free public high school, there has been a thirty-fold increase in secondary school enrollment in the last fifty years. If we are to maintain and improve the quality of our democracy, it is essential that education have the primary purpose of meeting the needs of these students. “Consequently, the school program must be planned in terms of pupil needs and in relation to goals that are important to the students themselves. Activities and experiences must be provided which afford practice in all areas of democratic living, which are aimed at the improvement of life in …

A Survey Of The Forms Used In The Organization And Administration Of Off-Campus Student Teaching In Business Education In The Public High Schools Of The United States, Fredrick Donald Luallen

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Today's Junior High School, William R. Oliver

All Master's Theses

The writing of this paper provides a means for the survey of the principles of organization and the ways of meeting the needs of junior high school students. It is the intention of this paper to present the functions, the principles and the methods of instruction prevalent in the junior high school.

Reorganization Of Spencer County, Kentucky School System, C. L. Francis

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

To study present school system of Spencer County and to devise a plan of reorganization of present system in order to provide a well rounded educational opportunity for the boys and girls of Spencer County, Kentucky. The consideration of this problem are:

1. Comparison of teacher qualifications in the types of schools.
2. Computation of enrollment, average daily attendance of the various types of schools.
3. Determination cost per pupil and total cost of operation of present school system and reorganized school system as salary of teacher, maintenance, transportation and needed buildings.
4. Provision for free transportation of all high school pupils.

Present Practices & Methods Of Supervising Student Teachers In Industrial Arts, Walter Nalbach

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem is threefold:

1. To determine the present practices of the programs in which student teaching is done.
2. To analyze significant variations and to show important central tendencies in the technique of supervision of student teachers.
3. To ascertain a means of evaluating student teaching in industrial arts.

A Comparison Of The Certification Standards For Commercial Teachers In The Different States Of The Union, Lee Rothrock

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In the present study, the writer has attempted to make an investigation of the problem of the certification of commercial teachers in the secondary school level of the several states in the Union. The study has three purposes:

1. To tabulate the requirements made by the various states for secondary school certification of commercial teachers.
2. To set forth, by the method of comparison and contrast, the central tendencies and the differences that exist in these requirements.
3. To suggest principles and standards to serve as a basis for a general plan for the certification of high school commercial teachers in the United …

Promotion & Non-Promotion In The Louisville Elementary Schools, E. W. Belcher

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

To promote or not to promote has long been a question in the minds of both administrators and teachers; however, the segregated problem of promotion and non-promotion did not receive much attention until about fifteen years ago. In the past decade and a half much time and careful, thoughtful study have been devoted to this problem by leading educators.

Remedial Measures Suggested By A Diagnosis Of The Eighth Grade Tests In Warren County Schools, Carl Chaney

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the prime motive of this study to present an unbiased picture of the achievement of eighth grade pupils in the public schools of Warren County, Kentucky, for the years 1934 and 1935 and to recommend remedial measures for teaching in these schools. The data used have been treated with a strict regard for statistical procedure so that no prejudice on the part of the writer might influence the results.

The Relation Of Training & Experience To Success In The Rural Schools Of Butler County, W. E. Willis

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem is two-fold.

1. To set up a number of points that will help to measure the efficiency of the teacher.
2. To show the correlation of training and experience with the efficiency of these teachers.

A Comparative Study Of The Relative Achievement Of The Training School & Non-Training School Pupils, Ruth Borders

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The writer, having been employed as a critic or supervising teacher in a city training school, has a personal interest in student teaching and student teachers. Frequently patrons voice their opinions concerning the work done in the training school. While many parents are well pleased with the results of student teaching, there are some who believe that the type of work given in the training school is inferior to that done in the public schools.

The major purpose of this study is to endeavor to answer, to some extent, a few of the many questions, arising from day to day, …

Subject Combinations Of Kentucky High School Teachers, Clarence Emrick

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Even though very good courses have been worked out for the numerous colleges of the state of Kentucky, there still remains a problem unanswered by the teacher-training institutions of the State. This problem is: What shall the prospective teacher be prepared to teach? and the question for the prospective teacher is: In what fields shall I prepare to teach?

In order that the objective of this study - the ability to give more intelligent guidance from the standpoint of the teacher-training institutions and the ability to make the proper selection of subjects from the standpoint of the prospective teacher - …

The Relationship Of Principal And Teacher. A Study Of Some Ways Of Improving Teachers In Service, Lillian Caryl Thies

Bachelors’ Theses

The title of this thesis is, ''The Relationship Between Principal and Teacher". Such a title may cover a great field, and instead of a single thesis, volumes might be written adequately to review it. I must therefore narrow the subject down, and after giving a general view of the position of the elementary school principal in the educational field and a sketch of his various powers and duties, I shall consider in more detail some ways in which he may help the elementary teacher to grow and to improve in service. There is gathering upon the subject, "The Principalship", a …

Ua12/2/1 Western Normal Letter, Vol. 2, No. 3, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter dedicated to the rural education issues and recruitment of students to WKU.

Ua45/1 Wksnc Catalog, Rural School Number, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Course catalog which includes:

• Faculty
• Announcement
• History of WKU
• How to Secure Free Tuition
• Site for Model Rural School Secured
• Courses of Study
• Rural Teachers' Course
• Advanced Certificate Course
• Regular Normal Course
• Courses in Agriculture
• School of Music
• Lyceum Course 1911-1912
• Educational Items
• Literary Societies and the Moot House of Representatives
• The Summer School
• Expense
• List and Price of Text-Books Used in the Normal