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

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Tape Recorded Teaching at Hagerstown by Pearl C Snively A ELEVisiON tape recording, which has revolutionized the television broadcasting industry more than other technological development, is becoming increasingly important on the national education scene. One of the crowoiing achievements of teaching by television tape is that it has inspired a most critical evaluation of every phase of education. This runs the gamut of what, how, why and when to teach what to whom. It involves decisions of where the responsibility should lie for the development and maintenance of specific skills. It involves ways to develop the maximum potential of every child into an intelligent, useful, thinking citizen in a country with a democratic form of government. By means of the Videotape* television recorder, it is now possible for an individual teacher to envision herself in this role of television teacher, where her effectiveness or ineffectiveness is so far-reaching. I am one of 28 studio teachers to become actively involved in the county-wide experimental closed-circuit television project at Hagerstown (Washington County), Maryland. This five-year project, which began in September, 1956, is under the direct supervision and control of the Washington County Board of Education. Four organizations have cooperated with the board in this program. They are the Fund for the Advancement of Education (Ford Foundation), Electronics Industry Association, Ampex Foundation, and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Their invaluable contributions °TM Ampex Corp. 226 have included equipment, funds for system de signing and assembly and assistance with pre duction problems, training of personnel and d( velopment of an evaluation program. The supervisor of televised instruction, the ai department, and we 28 studio teachers hav desks in the teachers' office building at the Tele vision Center. Adjoining our building is th studio building which houses the five studio from which our telecasts are sent. Also in thi studio building are the coordinator of the tele vision project, the secretaries, the engineer anc his assistant, the production supervisor and hi: assistant, a film room and of course a room fo; the television tape recorder. Across the drivewa) is the Board of Education building with the offices of the superintendent and other admin istrative personnel. They also work in supervision of studio teaching. I describe this physica arrangement so you can picture the close proximity of the core of studio teachers to the administrative and supervisory staff and to the studios from which approximately 125 lessons are sent weekly. Each school day about 92 percent of the pupils of the county receive part of their instnictior by television; the other eight percent are attending small elementary schools which are not yel connected to the television circuit. Television has made every pupil a private pupil. The television teacher can now look into the eye of every pupil. No one is ignored. This eye-to-eye contact brings a different kind of intimacy, a different kind of sharing that is difficult to understand until experienced. The studio teacher, too, freed of trivia that harass most classroom teachers, can bring a certain Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, 196C