In the 72-class school, 43 classrooms and 54 teachers are required, in
addition to the provision for auditorium, playrooms, and library. For
this work 10 teachers are required, making a total of only 64 teachers
for 72 classes. The traditional elementary school requires 72 teachers
and 72 classrooms for 72 classes; the manual-training shops and the
manual-training teachers are extra. In addition there would be
librarians in branch public libraries, playground directors in public
playgrounds, and special teachers as supervisors of music, drawing,
physical training, manual training, and nature-study. Often in the
traditional school 80 or more persons are employed for the instruction
of 72 classes, not including the building principal and assistants.
An important feature of the teacher organization in the Gary school is
the division into senior and junior teachers, or head teacher and
assistant teacher. Since each classroom accommodates two teachers
according to the duplicate-school plan, the teacher who has been longer
in service is designated as head teacher. The less experienced teacher
acts under her direction. The head teachers, for instance, in the “X”
school may visit and criticize the work of the assistant teachers in the
“Y” school during the last hour of the day when the “X” school is not in
session. Similarly the junior teacher in the “Y” school may visit the
work of the “X” school during the first hour. Inexperienced or weak
teachers may thus be developed under the direction of the more
experienced. New teachers are thus being constantly trained in the new
régime and spirit of the Gary school. The school is thus made an
extension of the normal or training-school for teachers. The teachers
continue to learn as well as the pupils. The question how teachers are
to be procured for the new demands which the Gary plan puts upon them is
thus answered. The school itself trains the teachers.
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