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Many questions on Audio -Visual Learning come in your editor's mailbag here are —
W. A. WiTTicH AND John Guy Fovvlkes
"^ How much money per child c • should a school board spend n the visual education program?
i This is a very difficult question A. • to answer, because a certain basic nount needs to be spent for the purlase of equipment, screens, black-out aterial, film rental, or film purchase :fore any program can even begin.
If the school system is small, this eans a high per capita expenditure, the school system is a large one, the st per capita appears smaller. Once e initial cost of equipment has been et, a basic program of filmstrip pur-, lase and film rental is at present costg many small school systems between iOO and .S500 a year. This may mean veral dollars per pupil. In general, it ay be said that many school systems e today spending as much on a proam of visual instruction, which prodes for map and filmstrip purchases, ctures, slides, and motion picture ntals, as they are spending on text)oks.
■^ We have just begun a proc • gram of visual education hich includes films. Our first at;mpts in getting and scheduling [ms haven't been too successful.
E and HEAR — December
Can you refer us to anyone who has had experience and who might send us some advice?
A This problem of scheduling, se• curing, and using films varies from school to school. Just recently, Mr. Michael F. Serene, Assistant Principal of The Ambridge Junior-Senior High School, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, wrote to us about the very practical way in which he is meeting this problem. A good answer will be found in the technique they have set up. Mr. Serene explains it to you.
"In Ambridge High School we feel we have worked out a plan which avoids many problems. Too often confusion occurs when films are ordered from outside agencies. When only two projectors are available in a large building, scheduling becomes a mechanical problem. Getting films so that they arrive exactly on the days scheduled is another concern. Teachers want them not too early, not too late, but on time. These and other problems are often not discovered until too late. The results are detrimental to school morale, costly, and unnecessary.
"But now about our plan. Early in the school year, faculty members and departments are asked to present their requests for films to the assistant principal. This is done early so that all films requested
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