Teachers’ College School
Sir,—Mr H. C. Evison, of the Christchurch Teachers’ College, suggested recently that the new teachers’ college at Ham should incorporate a secondary school of about 150 pupils, with which college staff could practise experimental teaching methods. This idea is basically sound, but surely a more realistic scheme would be to allow staff to have leave of absence for a year to enable them to teach under the same conditions as other teachers. During this time the staff member could be replaced at the college, by a practising teacher who would have a year as a visiting lecturermuch the same as the positions of this type available in our universities. A school of 150 pupils with a staffing ratio of one to seven is not economic in a city the size of Christchurch, and, anyway, teaching a couple of classes of 20 pupils hardly qualifies as practical teaching.—Yours, etc., GEOFF ASHTON. August 4, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31440, 5 August 1967, Page 14
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