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NA$B New© Letter*«*Sept 15, 1939 Page 8 every content field and of every grade level group come down to tlie- hotel , sit on the stage„ and carry on their bast efforts in utilisation* These meetings are followed by a panel of critics,, and discussion from the audience in front of them* Out of these conferences, has coils a body of information which has improved markedly from year to year, and I am certain constitutes an excellent source of material for the teacher interested in using the radio program* "Another angle of utilization is, of course, evaluation — both in our cooperation with Ohio State, as well as through our own evaluation activities w© are gradually building up a pretty good concept of how to measure the effectiveness of the program. I suspect that we*11 Eei?er have a wholesale or mass ©valuation as under the control of the central office* We do have control groups consisting of ten schools here and ten schools there; but in the final analysis, all of these procedures must b© translated into simple procedures that the individual teacher can coordinate — not ae a testing program, but as an inherent and almost involuntary portion of her teaching routine* "Teacher training is vital, and we haven 8 1 neglected that* At the Teachers College in Chicago., a member of our staff has organized a class in utilization which is a required course for all practice teachers* "We ©Iso have a summer workshop which next summer will cover six weeks of time, and approximately eight hour© a day, here, in utilization, production, continuity, diction, and survey* This will be presented in a laboratory of radio education* "We also carry on in-service classes in production, continuity, and utilization from four to six on different afternoons of the week in our radio studio* "Just a word about our listening survey* we found that last semester®- the semester just closed — that w© had 156,000 children listening to radio programs in Chicago* I have no notion of the number who might bo listening outside* There are approximately nine hundred radios in the school system at present, and they ©re being added at the rate of about 50 a month — all of them being promoted locally by the principal and the teacher* The school board has not as yet indicated its ability to purchase radios for the schools* «It has been our experience that the small portable radio of substantial make Is the best Instrument for our use* "I should also mention in passing, publications*■ On© of these is the radio workshop unit for the high school teacher; and another, the Utilization handbook for the elementary teacher; reports, on the school broadcast conferences; our quarterly publication, Around the Radio Circuit; and ©valuation reports* "Another activity'is our conference course — meeting tk& hours monthly «*- the radio chairmen of approximately 225 IVT* A® Associations, meeting for the purpose of studying radio from the standpoint of how the FTA may be concerned* These conferences are conducted by the Radio Council and, in one sene©, completes the coverage of public school activity, except for one points