REFRESHER COURSE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29728, 23 January 1962, Page 15

REFRESHER COURSE

General Science Teachers

A refresher course for teachers of general science in forms 111 to V will be held in Christchurch from January 24 to January 31. The course is designed to bring the teaching of general science into line with modern ideas. It will also lessen the shortage of brained science teachers by training those who have had to help. Lectures will be given on the subjects comprising general science—physics, chemistry, biology, and nutrition—and there will be discussions There will also be practical laboratory work and field studies. The administrator of the course, Mr W. R. Elder, a teacher at the Linwood High School, said yesterday that there would be discussions on whether general science was a suitable subject for all purposes. or whether it should be split into the separate sciences

The programme provides for discussion on general science for slow learners, bright pupils, girls, and boys entering trades.

The inaugural address will be given by Professor H. N. Parton, professor of chemistry at Otago University. The lecturers will include Miss N. P. Simpson and Messrs R. A. Chapman, T. R. Hitchings, and Elder.

About 73 post-primary teachers from the South Island will attend the course, and there will be about 23 lectures. assistants, ’and officials. Boarding and lecturing facilities have been arranged at the School for the Deaf. Sumner, and laboratories at the Linwood High School will be used for practical work.

A similar course for North Island teachers will be held on the same dates in Auckland.