Point News, 1971 December 17

              December 17, 1971 Point News Page 5
Plan
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committee members emphasized
the need for flexibility in all plans
adopted and a variety of
educational and living options for
students. It was decided that the
school should not grow to more
than 1,400 in the next ten years.
The majars. The major topic of
the evening was, however, the
physical plan of the school. That
is, should residents be dispursed
throughout the campus or
centrally located, as is now he
case?
The dispursed housing idea is
one that had come to light with a
physical plan known as the cluster
concept. The basic way that such
a set-up would be augmented here
would be in our clusters, each
consisting of living quarters for
students and faculty, classrooms,
offices and other facilities, such as
a store. The clusters would
probably be located on the south
side of Route 5; where the present
Dorchester, Prince George,
Caroline, Summerset complex is
located; the north field; and either
surrounding Queen Anne, or
Baltimore and Charles. Any
present facilities could be
converted to accomodate such a
system. This would serve to create
a living-learning atmosphere where
students and teachers could live,
work and play together.
No decisions were made
concerning the cluster concept,
but options to it were put forth
and discussed.
On the following three
Tuesdays the council met without
H2Ls. It covered various topics,
including a proposal for the
academic program and goals for
the college. Neither of these
topics were finalized, but some in
roads were made. It was agreed
that some emphasis should be
placed on non-academic activities
and that these should be valued
equally with academies and some
generalized goals were formulated.
Previously discussed ideas and
proposals concerning physical
plans and structure have been
re-evaluated with little resolution.
As the council now stands, it
has few concrete plans with a
deadline the Tuesday before
Christmas. It hopes to have
formalized something which H2Ls
can work on. The final deadline
for the matersplan is in June,
when it must be submitted to the
state government.
In order that the council
formulate the best plans possible,
it is necessary that they know
what the community feels. Think
about it. Discuss it. Inform people
of your beliefs. We can shape the
destiny of this institution.
Jim Kornick
Teacher Ed, an Effective Program SMCC Grant
The Secondary Educational
Department of SMC is a portion
of Division IV and is headed by
Oak Winters and Nancy
Schneidewind. The current four
year teaching program is now in
its second year of existance.
Any interested students are
encouraged to take educational
courses even if they aren’t
planning to pursue the teaching
profession. Participating in the
teaching department is an
excellent opportunity to become
involved within the ‘community’
and to experience the process of
learning.
The courses presently offered
in the education department are
Educat ional Psychology,
Principles of Education, Methods
of Education, Student Teaching,
Tutorial Program, Elementary
Education and Independent
Studies. Because of the lack of
staff, the curriculum is quite
small. Nancy Schneidewind and
Oak Winters are the only full time
faculty while Dick Cummings and
Jane Bradford teach part time.
Both Nancy and Oak hope to
see the education department’s
curriculum expanded. It is
unlikely that a new full time staff
member will be hired for three
years. Therefore the education
department will have to depend
on part time staff for an expanded
curriculum. Among the new
courses hoped to be offered are
Children’s Literature, Education
Alternatives, Early Childhood,
Education, and some type of Day
Care Center. Action oriented
courses are going to be stressed in
the future.
The Education Department
will never expand sufficiently to
include grade school education.
Eventually preschool studies will
be made available with the
evolving of a Human Development
major but, grades one through six
will not be studied. This is mainly
because SMC will never be large
enough to fully utilize such a
department.
There is no Placement Office at
SMC so Oak Winters has been
helping graduates find teaching
jobs. He has been successful in his
endeavors because, all of last
year’s graduates who wanted
teaching jobs were placed in such
positions. Oak Winters feels that
even with the scarcity of teaching
jobs he has been successful in
placing SMC students because
they are extremely qualified
people.
Oak feels that the goal of the
teaching department is “to
educate sensitive and creative
persons who see teaching as a
helping act, persons who can see
beyond the limits of their
academic discipline and who want
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to see youngsters grow and
mature as individuals who are
unique, confident, and positive.
We don’t need more tryants or
dispensors of knowledge. Teachers *
can make significant differences in
the lives of children if they
understand how young people
develop and if they can accept
young people as young people. I
don’t believe most teachers
believe to be young is to be
legitimate.”
Nancy Schneidewind feels the
goals of the teaching department
are to “support any students in
college, whether or not they want
to be teachers, in learning about
children and their development
and in becoming actively involved
wi th chi l dren in the
‘community’.” Also she believes it
is to “specifically prepare those
students who’d like to be
secondary teachers by exposing
them to a broad range of
alternative ways of relating to and
teaching students.”
Students Teachers don’t all
share similar ideas with Nancy
Schneidewind and Oak Winters.
One student teacher feels that
they are too idealistic because
they feel learning should be an
enjoyable process. She feels that
learning isn’t all fun and games
but is often a definite chore.
Other student teachers feel
that the idealistic approach to
teaching is best. They believe that
students have been repressed for
too long and that the dominant
role of the teacher is irrelevant to
the learning process. Only by
recognizing the student’s level of
consciousness do they feel that
any learning can be accomplished.
Intern Teachers learn to teach.
New Means for Creation
A fantastic array of audiovisual
equipment has been ordered for
Kent 201, the Library, nd field
use. The fifteen thousand dollars
necessary or this equipment was
supplied jointly by the library and
the collegial dean of faculty. In a
memorandum of November 30,
John Carey of the library outliens
the equipment purchases made
through his office for the college.
Kent 201 will be equipped to
view synchronized, programmed
slide shows. For this purpose a
number of automatic focus slide
projectors, two Kodak dissolve
controls, and a four-channel
programmer have been ordered.
This equipment will enable
students to view multi-screen slide
shows with up to eight projectors
and four track stereo. The
programmer co-ordinates the
sound system with the individual
slides. The dissolve units create a
fade in/fade out effect with the
slides instead of the usual abrupt
change. The sound system for 201
will include a quadraphonic Fisher
701 receiver, a four-channel tape
deck, an AR turntable, and four
AR speaker svstems. Also slated
for 201 is VHF-UHF-FM
television and radio antenna to be
installed on the roof of Kent Hall.
New equipment for the library
includes a turntable, eight-track
tape deck, stereo Dolbyized
cassette tape deck, stereo radio
receiver, and speakers. This
equipment will be installed in one
room of the media department.
New videotape equipment
includes three cameras, an editor,
a special effects generator, four
monitors, and an assortment of
lenses. With this equipment
camera positions can be switched
instantly through the special
effects generator, or two different
pictures can be placed next to
each other on the same piece of
tape.
Several tape recorders, movie
and slide projectors of all kinds,
and some portable stereo
phonographs are on order for
individual field use. There are two
Nikkormat 35 mm single lens
reflex cameras with standard,
wide angle, and telephoto lens on
order to ta'ke slides for the
projectors in Kent Hall.
The decision to order this
equipment came after a general
survey of the faculty one by John
Carey who then ordered the
equipment. Dr. Wilson uses Kent
201 as his classroom and
contributed much of the input as
to what should be installed there.
Jim Hayes proposed buying the
new videotape equipment.
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The St. Ma ry ’s City
Commission has recently received
a badly needed grant from the
National Endowment for the
Humanities Division of Research
and Publication. The grant
consists of $61,120.00 from May
1, 1972 to May 1, 1974, if it is
matched by private donations.
The title of their project is, “The
Making of Maryland’s Tidewater
Society: A Research Partnership
Between History and Historical
Archaeology. ”
The purpose of this grant is to
allow the SMCC to carefully
excavate the ruins of ancient St.
Mary’s City with the aid of highly
qualified researchers. St. Mary’s
City is one of the “last great
unexplored seventeenth century
site in English-settled America. ” It
is presently buried beneath St.
Mary’s College and much of the
surrounding farmland.
The St. Ma ry ’s City
Commission is a recently formed
historical agency under the
Department of Economic and
Community Development of the
State of Maryland. It is directed
by Holger V. Jansson. The
commission is composed of a
highly qualified research staff,
seven state appoin ted
commissioners, collaborators and
an administrative staff.
The commission expects a
number of outcomes from the
excavations. Journals of the staffs
work will be published for the
benefit of citizens. Extensive
research will be done concerning
the economic, social and
democratic structures of the
colonial society. Also, the great
need for experienced archeologists
and architectural historians will be
partially fulfilled.
By working with St. Mary’s
College and the Smithsonian
Institute to create an effective
master plan, the SMCC hopes to
accomplish their mission of
preservation. They plan to
maintain the peaceful atmosphere
of the area as well as providing
elaborate public museum
facilities.
Possible uses include short
documentaries made by students
instead of term papers, and could
be used in other classes.
Videotape can permit a student to
evaluate his or her performance in
a speech or acting class. Guest
speakers can be recorded for
classroom use.
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