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Sister Anthony is at the master console, which controls tapes in
32 private booths at the St. Scholastica Academy, Covington, La.
Teaching By Tape
WITH 30 or 40 students to a class, a teacher is often at her wit’s end
trying to satisfy at the same time the fast learners, the slow pupils
and the average group. One of the first schools to solve this problem, St.
Scholastica Academy in Covington, La . did it with the help of magnetic
tape and electronics.
Instead of listening to the teachers, pupils now listen to taped lessons
through earphones in special classrooms fitted out with the requisite equip
ment. At the front of the class, the teacher sits at an electronic switchboard
designed to play four different tapes simultaneously. From her control board,
she can switch students to any one of the tapes, depending on her estimate
of their ability. When a pupil wants to ask a question, she pushes a button
and a light corresponding to her desk number lights up on the teacher’s
switchboard. Teacher and pupil can then converse privately over a two
way communication system.
In operation for two years, the new system has greatly stimulated learn
ing, according to school officials. For one thing, advanced students aren’t
held up by the slow learners, and the latter no longer feel inferior in the
light of the better students. Furthermore, the opportunity to ask questions
privately has encouraged many questions from pupils who might have been
too shy to ask them publicly. In some classes, pupils are given a chance to
make their own tapes, thus improving their vocabulary, diction and enun
ciation—all adding up to a general increase in self-confidence.
Provided with special textbooks designed to supplement the tape ses
sions, students maintain the same level of instruction they receive through
their earphones. Where a student finds a lesson particularly difficult, she
can always ask to hear it again, without interfering with the learning of
fellow students.
As the most advanced application of tape teaching now in use on a non
college level, the work at St. Scholastica is the culmination of some seven
years of experimental work in electronic education by Sister Mary Teresa
Brentano, of Mount St. Scholastica College, Atchison, Kans. Sister Mary
Teresa, who holds a Ph D. in education, began to experiment with tapes
after Covington parents urged her, as principal, to obtain more individual
attention for their children. Assisted by two grants from the Fund for the
Advancement of Education, ar.d by increasing sophistication in the elec
tronics field itself, she was finally able to launch a full-scale tape project