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8 C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2S. JS6J MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OHEGON Future Classrooms May Not Have Windows, Report Cards Washington - Windowless, ungraded, no report cards -this is school? It may very well be (he school of the future, say edu cation authorities at the Na tional Education association, pointing to various experi mental studies now under way on school building design, teaching tools, changes in the curriculum. Here are some of them: Windowless schools: studies are under way in several places to determine whether schools without windows help itudents to concentrate. Classrooms of different nizes: if the "team teaching" method becomes popular - the method in which a group of specialized teachers takes re sponsibility for a large class school buildings will have to be changed. Team teaching will require large rooms for use when the entire class gets together, and smaller rooms for specialized small group in struction. Television: an increasing number of schools are using it now as a teaching aid. This way a special teacher in, say, foreign language or science, can teach a number of chil dren at one time. Teaching machines: they may also find a greater use, depending on the outcome of continuing studies on their ef fectiveness and that of the ma terial they use to break down studies into such small steps that it becomes easy for a student to understand. Films and slides: these al ready are being used exten sively and intensively, teachers find they save fast that teachers cannot Opaque projectors, calculat ing machines, electronic lab kits, even small digital com puters: all are finding a place in the modern classroom, but not without some healthy iample-is being taught so stu skepticism. dents will understand the Subject matter: for several ! theory behind the facts. And, as years, educators have recog- along with tms, goes ine idea ex- nized that the accumulation that man can never stop teach-nor students learn all the facts there are to know in a given area. So subject mat ter teaching-in math, for ex- Then, he'll have to others. Fewer Outside Te.ts force him to be a vocational tem-which have already come under fire from school admin istrators. It's wasteful to give so many tests, the adminis- student all his life, for auto- lfalors saX. Because many ot ,. ..... .... . , I the tests measure the same planation and lecture time. of knowledge is increasing so learning. Tape recorders: especially helpful in teaching foreign languages, recorders now are being used in conjunction with slides and films to pro vide a running commentary for the ear to match the visual stimulus to the eye. Automation will thing-academic ahilitv him out of al least three jobs, j Grades: an articulate group learn of educators, whose number j is growing, says that grouping pupils on the basis of age is Tests: there will, undoubt- illogical, because age alone edly, be fewer "outside" tests has little to do with the level -those initiated by groups of ability of the student, outside the local school sys- Grouping on the basis of grades in each subject is bet ter. But the best is abolishing grades, and abolishing report cards, too. Instead, each pupil should be taught, these edu cators say, as much and as fast as he can absorb it. The bright student could then move ahead of his age group. The slow student could lag behind without the unwholesome pressures to catch up that he now must shoulder. What else is ahead? If you look far enough ahead, you might see something like this: Students studying a foreign land making field trips there by jet during class; teachers for the local schools being re cruited from all over the world; the school day and the school year being adjusted to serve the needs of the indi vidual student: the school building itself disappearing or becoming only a coordinating center as education moves from the classroom to the universe. COOKING TECHNIQUES Demonstrated at Aviation High school, Redondo Beach, to home economic students in this modern Calif, to gei Inese translucent, fiberglass classroom with surrounding light from reinforced plastic panel ceilings for belter luminous ceilings. This room was the first light, better sight. (Photo Filon Corporation) WE KNOW OUR Specialists in Fast Service , at No Extra Cost Expert Dressmaking and Alterations by our own Dressmaker 11'M'iSoI TOO Also Visit ' Drive-In Cleaners at 844 S. Riverside and 702 W. 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