TEACHER TALK. At the SAEA, Student Arkansas Education Association, breakfast, Dr. Bobby Coker and Linda Thompson visited. The club served doughnuts and coffee to the teachers. -Photo by Sharon Bowles. RICE KRISPIES TREATS. For a paper on "How to Make Rice Krispie Treats for High School Educatable Mentally Retarded Children," Robin Wenger, senior, studies the box in the library. -Photo by Sharon Bowles. ~CHOOL OF EDUCATION Students excel; school prepares for reevaluation 0 f the students who took the National Teachers Examination (NTE) from Harding University, 100 percent passed all parts of the test. The state requires all students to pass the NTE in their teaching specialty in order to receive a teaching certificate. The test was offered once each semester and once during the summer. Education students must take the test after student teaching. For the first time, the student teaching period has been extended to 12 weeks instead of the original eight week period. The change was made due to state requirements. A student must have an overall G.P.A. of 2.50, a G.P.A. in major of 2.50 and a minimum grade of "C" in all education courses required by the program in order to be admitted into the student teaching program. The pre-teacher's education is accredited by the National Council of Accredation of Teacher's Education (NCATE). This is the only nationally recognized accrediting body for teachers education. Harding has been accredited since 1961. There is a major reevaluation every five years and an annual review. Harding comes up for PINNED. Angela Smith, junior, pins Dr. John Ryan with a name tag on Teacher's Appreciation day. SAEA, Student Arkansas Education Association, hosted the morning breakfast for the teachers. -Photo by Sharon Bowles. reevaluation in the spring of 1991 and is in the process of preparing for it. "We are reviewing each standard and studying our program to see how it measures up," said Dr. Bobby Coker, dean of the school of education. NCATE has a specially trained board of 220 examiners to conduct the reevaluation. Coker was on the board and has served as a chair of a team of examiners. He served on two teams per year. Another change that took effect this year was in the Teacher Education Committee. Their name was changed to "Administrative Council for Teacher's Education." The membership was also changed. It now includes representation from all areas of the university that are involved in training teachers. Membership also included two representatives from elementary schools and secondary schools, as well as two Harding students selected by the Harding chapter of the Student Arkansas Education Association (SAEA). Dr. Wyatt Jones was added as associate dean to be responsible for administering graduate and undergraduate programs this year. -Renee Frazier School of Business, School of Education 173
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