The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 122

TEACHING BY TV Continued John Dickey adds a touch of glamour (TV style) with his six-shooter and guitar-like instrument to enliven his 11th Grade history course. Pupils will get a chance types of minerals in a box, he will arrange for those doing the best job to come in to the studio. The three teachers and a staff of three maintain offices at George D. Prentice Elementary School, 525 S. Sixth.

The staffers are Mrs. Roy Cobb, producer-co-ordinator; Mrs. Maurice Settle. secretary, and Mrs. Carrier Dickey, artist.

All are agreed on one thing: the planning, research and effort behind each 25-minute instruction period should result in a higher quality of instruction. Of the 7,315 pupils taking a course over the new TV station (WFPK, Channel 15), 5,875 are in the Raymond Layne uses many props in televising daily programs for his course in Ninth Grade science. Students who make fine exhibits will be asked to show them on TV. to show science exhibits on TV Jefferson County school system; 1,170 in Southern Indiana schools, and 270 in the Louisville school system. These school systems together form the Kentuckiana Educational Television Council, with Richard Van Hoose, superintendent of Jefferson County schools, as chairman.

The Jefferson County system has had the most experience with teaching by television. Last year, three of its elementary schools were on a closedcircuit hookup with a studio at Hawthorne School. This year, that experiment has been expanded to include five schools. Now, however, most attention is focused on the The three teacher-actors have a staff of three, including Mrs. Roy D.

Cobb, left, and Mrs. Maurice Settle. They are sending TV lesson plans to schools. THE COURIER JOURNAL MAGAZINE Channel 15 experiment in open-circuit television teaching. Any person whose television set is equipped to receive the ultra-high-frequency (U.H.F.) station, can "attend" these TV classes Mondays through Fridays.

General science is on the air from 8:35 to 9 a.m.; history from 9:35 to 10 a.m., and English from 10:35 to 11 a.m. Sets not equipped may be converted to U.H.F. The Fund for The Advancement of Education, which is paying about half the cost of television teaching, recently announced that Kentuckiana experiment in public schools here is the third largest in the nation. Mrs. Peters has learned to write her own English-course television scripts, complete with directions for the cameramen to follow..