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March 17, 1957
COLLEGE AND YOU
Teaching Schools
Offer Advantages
By STANLEY H BRAMS
Teachers' colleges generally suf
fer from a lack of glamour, yet
they offer distinct advantages for
the student with the necessity to
qualify for a profession in the
shortest possible time.
Generally, tuition is lower, for
government support Is available
14th in a Series
to meet the deficit between money
received from students and the cost
of operation. And there is the cer
tainty. if you have any talent for
teaching at all. of Immediate em
ployment, as soon as you have been
graduated.
Much has been said about
teachers' low salaries in the past
and much of it has been true. Hut
there are signs of a change. So
acute has been the shortage of
teachers that salaries have been
forced to their highest level in
history and there are indications
that the shortage w ill not be solved
for some time.
The University of Wisconsin
Teacher Placement Bureau reirorted
that University of Wisconsin women
graduates entering the teaching
profession averaged SIS a month
more than their classmates who
entered other fields.
Specialization Growing
The impression remains that a
teacher teaches everything. Such
is not the case Specialization has
produced a need for specialized
instruction, which helps account
for the improved salary status of
teachers
For men the most promising
teaching opportunities are: Busi
ness education, mathermatics. sci
ence, physical education, instru
mental music and speech. Most
tiifficult fields: Art, history, geogra
phy. economics, sociology, politi
cal science and language.
For women the best fields for
teachers are: Business education.
English, home economics, physical
education, speech and speech cor
rection and vocal music.
Mathematics and science have
been recarded as entirely fields for
men but qualified women find little
or no trouble in obtaining places.
Here again it is up to you to look
carefully at your own situation. If
you have a "feel'' for teaching,
accelerated scholastic programs will
shorten the time you spend in col
lege. Further schooling or special
iz'd study can be financed out of
your earnings as a beginning
teacher while free time makes it
possible to work for added degrees.
Do You Like People?
There are some questions you
ought to answer, though, before
deciding to enter the teaching pro
fession. Are you interested in peo
ple. particularly young people? Are
you able to work with others? Are
you strong enough physically and
mentally? Can you take satisfac
tion from knowing that you are
doing an important job?
If you answer "yes” to these then
the teachers’ college may lx* your
answer to the need for higher edu
cation.
Counselors constantly advise
against going into teaching only for
the money, yet the money is impor
tant.
Thousands of teachers are in the
$5,000 to SIO,OOO bracket, while ad
ministrative posts in the larger
school systems pay handsomely.
Questions and Answers
Where can I train to become a
kindergarten teacher while my
husband is in an Army ramp in
California for the next four
years?—T. I>.
Whittier College at Whittier,
Calif, offers training in Nursery
School and Kindgarten Teacher
Education.
Must I take a test for a teach
er's post after graduating from
normal school?—K. T.
Your certificate is your qualifica
tion. Boards of education members
will usually interview prospective
teachers, however, and may base
their decisions partly on their im
pressions.
< Stanley H. Rrams will an
swer your questions about col
lege. Write him in care of Teen,
The Sunday Star, Washington.
I>. and inclose a stamped,
self-addressed envelope.)
Next Week: A Women’s, Men’s or
Coeducational College?
• (Copyright, 1957>
Boys' Dress
Getting Tidier
Continued From Poge 1
• too long is being ruled out by stu
dent bodies as well as by the facul
ties of many secondary schools.”
At the heart of the current trend
is the enthusiasm for Ivy League
styles, which ‘‘caught on” this
winter.
One retailer, who has been spon
soring boys’ fashion shows in nearby
Virginia high schools, reported that
a single show produced SI,OOO in
immediate sales of Ivy League
styles.
It will be difficult for a boy to
avoid the Ivy Influence.
Boys' Outfitter, the trade maga
zine of the teen-age clothing indus
try. reports: "The least surprising
fact about spring '57 trends is their
almost unanimous swing to Ivy
styling: the most surprising fact—
the lack of anything that, can be
classified as new or very different
from last spring.”
Stripes, checks, plaids, button
down collars, backstraps. natural
shoulder tailoring, three-button
jackets, pleatless trousers all the
traditional earmarks of Ivy League
dress will be evident in spring
styles.
Materials won't change much,
though there's a slight favoritism
developing for polished cotton in
trousers.
Nor will colors. Khaki green will
win some adherents, as will a new
shade between tan and brown teen
agers have dubbed the "nothing
color.”
Increasing insistence on "genu
ine" Ivy League details foreshadows
the dressier trend of spring.
One salesman told TEEN:
"They're insisting on the real
thing. If you don't have it, they
walk out.”
THI SUNDAY STAR, WosMngton, D. C.
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Six members of Horizon Club, the teen-age division of the Camp Fire Girls, rehearse a
torchbearer ceremonial which will be staged at 3 p;m. today in Grace Episcopal Church,
Silver Spring. Top row. left to right, are Sue Robertson, Connie McKay and Phoebe
America, all of Richard Montgomery High School. Bottom, left to right, are Barbara
Goss, Catherine Hamill and Carolyn Horne, all of Montgomery Hills Junior High School.
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