53 Courses For Teachers Planned

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31596, 6 February 1968, Page 12

53 Courses For Teachers Planned

Fifty-three in-service refresher courses for primary and intermediate school teachers have been arranged for the first term in Canterbury and Westland.

The major emphasis will be on mathematics because this year books 1 and 2 of the new mathematics syllabus are being introduced in lower standards and because a different subject is chosen for special attention each year. The Education Department's advisers on mathematics (Messrs L. Couch and E. N. Penlington) will attend many of the courses. The in-service training centre at 21 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, will be in use throughout the first term.

Ten courses will be held in the Findlay in-service training centre at Timaru. This was named after the former district senior inspector of primary schools (Mr H. W. Findlay), who was especially keen on in-service training development

Other courses will be held at rural centres of North Canterbury, Mid-Canterbury, Malvern, Ellesmere, and the West Coast

The District Senior Inspector of Primary Schools (Mr B J. Wilson) said yesterday that enthusiasm for these courses was notable. Members

were nominated by their headmasters, some attending week-long courses would have leave from their schools, but the majority would attend at their own expense in their own time after school in the afternoons and in the evenings. The programme will begin today with a course on swimming instruction in Christchurch; another on emotionally disturbed children will start on Wednesday; and within a fortnight the full list will be well under way on mathematics at different levels, nature study, science, art and craft, music, written expression, formal language, social studies, reading, classwork planning, and infant classes.