Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

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The teacher is acquiring a more dominant voice in the audio visual program nmu IS BOSS by GEORGE HAMMERSMITH BOSS, according to the dictionary, means "master, superior, foreman or manager." And such is the classroom teacher. The teacher is boss lie Mr. Hammersmith is Supervisor of the Visual Aids Department, Toledo, Ohio Board of Education. The picture above luas taken by Richard Drouard, teacher and audio-visual coordinator at Sherman School in Toledo. cause of the inastery of his subject matter and especially because of his love for diildren; superior in the understanding of youngsters in their relationship to subject matter; joreman of the work to be done witliin tlie classroom; and iiinnagfr of the many details of classrfH)m procedure, including the use of audio-visual materials. Thus it is right to say that the teacher is boss. The classroom teacher is boss 111 the classroom, but increasingly as democratic procedures come to per meate educational administration and the whole educational system, classroom teachers become the real boss of the instructional program. Education for democracv, the business in wliidi tlie whole profession is engaged, has its common denominator in the classroom teacher and his students. As we expect democracy to be taught and practiced in the classroom, so we should expect democracy in education from tlie teacher to the superintendent to the U. S. Commissioner of Education and to Unesco. January, 1955 19