The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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May, 1944 Page 197 The Coolidge Visual Aid Squad Functions Full details on a highly efficient organization of studentoperators for school projection. DAVID F. CHASSY Calvin Coolidge High School Washington, D. C. Above: Some members of the Coolidge Visual Aid Souad. Left: Trainee taking projector examination under pressure. AT Calvin Coolidge High School, Washington, D. C, we have a student organization which has done much to encourage the use of visual aids in the classroom. Our Visual Aids Squad, organized soon after the opening of the school in 1940, has won over many a faculty convert to the cause of visual education by the simple expedient of ver\' definitely relieving the teacher of all responsibility for procuring and operating the necessary projection equipment. For carrying on the program, we have portable projection equipment as follows: two 16mm. silent movie, one 16 mm. sound movie, two slide projectors, one opaque projector, besides 16 mm. stationary movie equipment in tiie auditorium booth. The portable equipment is used in any classroom where proper lighting conditions prevail. There is one room set aside for projection use exclusively. The bulk of the visual instruction material comes from the centrally located Visual Instruction Library which serves the entire D. C. school system, on the primary, secondary, and collegiate levels. The material is sent by special messengers to each of the schools on a regular weekly schedule. Even during these trying times, the service is uninterrupted and very dependable. The task of the Visual Aid Squad is to integrate the al)Ove service with the visual instruction ])rogram at Coolidge. Step 1. At the beginning of the school year, the Coolidge Visual Aids Office receives a catalogue from the D. C. Visual Instruction Library Hsting all materials available for the current year. This listing is periodically revised or supplemented. The Coolidge Visual Aids Office then prepares duplicate lists, classified by subject matter, and distributes these lists to the various departments throughout school, for permanent reference by every teacher in his own subject. Step 2. The teacher consults this list periodically, selects items, prepares Form No. 1 and forwards to the Coolidge Visual Aids Office. (For example, see Form No. 1 as filled out by Mrs. Anderson on Monday, Dec. 6.) (Forms 1, 3, 5, 6. 7, are slips of standard 3x5 card size. Only Form 1 is shown here.) Step 3. On Tuesday, Dec. 7, the Coolidge Visual Aids Office consolidates similar orders from other teachers throughout the school, and prepares Form No. 2 in duplicate. Both of these copies are mailed the same day to the D. C. Visual Aids Library, where they are "processed". The Visual Aids Library confirms the dates requested, or names substitute dates, and returns one copy thus processed to the Coolidge Visual Aids Office. Step 4. By Friday. Dec. 10, the Coolidge Visual Aids Office is able to relay confirmations and substitutions from Form No. 2 to the teachers concerned. (On Form No. 3). When agreement is reached with teachers regarding substitution dates, the Visual Aids Office prepares Form No. 4, the Projection Squad Assignment Chart. Forms No. 2 and No. 4 are posted side by side on the bulletin board in the Visual Aids Office, headquarters for the Visual Aids Squad. Step 5. On Monday morning, Dec. 13, the Visual Aids Squad operators consult Forms 2 and 4 for the operations scheduled. For example, the first operator assigned for Monday, Jane Miller, looks for the box next to her name. She will note the Key No. 89. She realizes, by a glance at both forms, that she is to operate a 3-reel silent movie, "From Clay to Bronze." in room 316, for Miss F'ontanini. Step 6. Our operator proceeds to room 316, where she finds the projector assembled, threaded, and focused. All Jane has to do is to flip the start