The Texas Standard, Volume 24, Number 5, November-December 1950 Page: 4
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TEXAS STANDARD
ARE WE USING OUH
RESOURCES WISELY?
By J. B. RUTLAND
Consultant in Negro Education
Texas Education Agency
The Fifty-first Texas Legislature
provided for supervisors, counselors
and special service personnel—such
as visiting teachers, itinerant teach-
ers, librarians, school nurses and
school physicians—to assist school
administrators, teachers and pupils
in solving their educational prob-
lems. This service, as provided, is
one of the school's greatest re-
sources.
These individuals are members of
the school staff of the districts in
which they work and they have the
responsibility, as other staff mem-
bers, of participating in setting up
the philosophy and concepts of the
school and in developing plans for
achieving the objectives of the
school program.
As the cooperative efforts be-
tween school staffs and laymen in
planning school programs continue
to grow, these special workers will
be of considerable help to the ad-
ministrators in coordinating the ef-
forts of the various individuals and
groups in determining the philoso-
phy of the school, developing an or-
ganization to make studies of the
school and community resources and
in making plans for improving
school and community. We can help
these new workers become an im-
portant part of our school program
by having them participate in solv-
ing problems similar to the follow-
ing:
1. Grading, instructing and pro-
moting children from the very be-
ginning of school life, on the basis of
their varied abilities and interests.
2. Giving tests and measurements
to illuminate the children's capaci-
ties and to light the way to a more
comprehensive and intelligent sys-
tem of education which will give
every child an unshackled start and
a fair chance in the race of life.
3. Assisting children to translate
the knowledge and skills they learn
into appropriate action.
4. Helping children develop sound
bodies and sound minds as a means
to the real end of education, which
is sound behavior.
5. Help children to understand
that the intelligence, knowledge and
skills they acquire are invaluable
assets when they are made to serve
in a way to determine the character
of individuals and of society.
6. Leading children to see that
right conduct is the acid test of right
living and right citizenship.
7. Helping children to know that
one's attitude toward one's self and
others is the mainspring of behavior.
Feelings and habits of behavior must
be constantly nurtured or corrected,
as the case may be, in the entire
daily life of the child.
8. Assisting children in the wise
use of their resources in their daily
work and living.
9. Assisting in getting all scholas-
tics enrolled in school and in regular
attendance.
10. Assisting in making the school
a place in which the children would
rather be during school time than
anywhere else.
In addition to the local and county
personnel the Texas Education
Agency has consultant personnel
ready to serve when and where they
are needed. This job cannot be done
alone. Let's learn how to help others
and how we may get others to help
us in this important task of educat-
ing the people of Texas.
Waco, McLennan1 County
Teachers Plan CTSA Meet
Waco and McLennan County are
making plans to entertain the State
Teachers Association which is to be
held November 23, 24, 25, 1950, on
the campus of Paul Quinn College
and East Waco Colored Elementary
School. All Waco and county teach-
ers are participating in making plans
for the association.
The following chairmen of com-
mittees have been organized as fol-
lows: Publicity committee, Mr. M.
H. Hodges, chairman; entertainment
committee, Mrs. Jewel M. Graham,
chairman; finance committee, Mr. L.
W. Jones, chairman; transportation
committee, P. R. Malone, chairman;
decoration committee, Mr. Wallace
Sam, chairman; arrangement, Rev.
E. C. Gipson, chairman; souvenir
program, L. F. Chaney, chairman;
local program, L. M. Hutchinson,
chairman; exhibits committees, Mrs.
Alberta Wright, chairman; cour-
tesy committee, Mrs. Fannie Wat-
son, chairman; music committee,
Mrs. H. M. Yancy; housing commit-
tee, Mr. J. W. Yancy, chairman;
citizen committee, Dr. G. H. Rad-
ford; reception committee, Mr. G. P.
Stewart, chairman, and steering
committee, Mrs. N. B. Aycox.
A meeting was held October 5,
1950, in the auditorium of Paul
Quinn College to get reports from
various communities with Prof. J. J.
Wilson, chairman of the Waco Mc-
Lennan County Association in
charge.
A committee on housing, of which
Mr. J. W. Yancy is chairman, has
made arrangements to accommodate
all teachers who expect to attend.
A conference with all committee
chairmen by the president of the
Texas Teachers Association was
held October 7, 1950, in the Admin-
istration Building at Paul Quinn
College to report on success. We are
making plans for this Association.
FOUR
TEXAS STANDARD
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