1980_12 The Daily Collegian December 1980

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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Tuesday, December 2,1Mo
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schools is going to the state. Reltman
said there is a measure for the 1962
ballot that would allow parents to send a
child to any school they want which could
mean parochial schools could get state
funding.
Student teaching is an integral part of
teacher development. The Commission
for Teacher Preparation and licensing
requires 12 units of class work and 12
units of field work (teaching in the class¬
room). 'You can see that student teach¬
ing is pretty crucial, "Heimbach said.
The department has 125 student
teachers in the elementary schools and
70 in the secondary schools this fall.
Elementary applications for spring
semester student teaching total 180, and
80 for secondary.
In order for the student teacher to
qualify for a credential, he must demon¬
strate competence in the subject matter
and in English composition and reading.
The applicant must demonstrate
physical fitness (determined by the
campus health center), show poise in
manner and dress, and demonstrate
positive personality characteristics. The
secondary credential requires a grade
point average of 2.50, while the elemen¬
tary requires a 275 CPA. Credentials for
public schools are issued under the pro¬
vision of the Teacher Preparation and
Licensing Law of 1970 (the Ryan Act).
The elementary credential Is obtained
with a B.A. in Liberal Studies, or If the
degree is completed without the speci¬
fied major, the teacher must pass the
National Teachers Examination.
"We stress reading and writing com¬
petency," Heimbach said. "An Indivi¬
dual's personality Is demonstrated
through discussions with the department
advisor. Dress and poise are taken care
of by the supervising teacher.*
The elementary credential requires 12
units of professional studies courses,
and nine units for the secondary creden¬
tial
"There is a climate that develops,
where the students feel they don't need
these courses," Reltman said. The uni¬
versity is becoming a place where one
goes to collect the credential."
Echols said that with.the state man¬
dated policy there is no room for experi¬
mentation, noway to try anything new in
teacher education.
"The legislature dictates what courses
are taught," Echols said.
Heimbach said there are bureaucratic
rituals in developing the program, that
the school boards and parents are no
longer in control of the schools.
Teacher education is being "taken out
of the hands of professionals,* Reitman
said.
Reltman observed that more men are
going into the elementary field, although
Echols said the man/worrum ratio in the
secondary schools 'doesn't change
much."
"Elementary education has always
been thought of as a helping (motherly)
profession,' Heimbach said, accounting
for the fact that more women are involv¬
ed with the elementary schools
Heimbach said that the program has
few black students.
Those with high qualifications go into
law, or social work more than education.
We're just not getting them. Most of
them don't see $11,500at starting salary
See Teachers page 7
MUSIC INSTRUCTOR CINDY TIQHLMAN RECALLS STUDENT TEACHING EXPERIENCES
She feels her student worfc taught her more than her education
man on other side of stand
By Karen Krieger
CSUF alumna Cindy Tighlman
wouldn't say that her student teach¬
ing was the best time she ever had,
but she said she learned more in stu¬
dent teaching than in her education
classes. Now a music teacher with the
Fresno Elementary Unified School
District, Tighlman enjoys her work
but admits that 'it's hard.
"Especially teaching music,' she
said. 'They (the students) don't
practice, and they always have
excuses.*
Tighlman said she is much stricter
with her classes this year, having
taught within the district for a year
and three months.
"I let them get away with nothing,'
she laughed. 'We have fun as long as
they do what I ask them to.*
Before earning her elementary tea¬
ching credential in May of 1979,
Tighlman conducted her class obser¬
vation at Hoover High School, work¬
ing with the orchestra and symphonic
band. She student taught three
periods at Wawona Middle School,
See Tighlman page 5
Directing children in activities 'touch'
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By Karen Krteger
Recreation leader Lisa Daley found out
that directing a group of children in
activites for an entire week at a time was
'tough.'
'There was a lot of programming that
was really new to me* she said, calling
attention to the fact that quite a bit of
planning is necessary to prepare her for
her work.
Daley is involved with another kind of
student teacher. In the process of earn¬
ing her 1,000 hours of field work In
preparation for a degree in recreation
administration.
The 21-year-old blonde has been work¬
ing since the beginning of the semester
at Fig Garden School, primarily with
fourth, fifth and ■sixth graders. Unlike
student teaching for a credential, she is
paid an hourly wage.
'We have to have a sports program no
more than three days per week, and arts
and crafts for the other two,* she said.
The crafts are hard to get going. Most
of the kids would rather be out shooting
the hoop; they get enough of the other in
class.*
Daley admits her preference for
sports.
"I liketeaching sports,' she said. 'I'm
more motivated for going Into that full-
time.* As far as crafts go. she said she's
"not in any way creative.*
Daley worked the past two summers at
Ram Sports Camp at Fresno City College
a day camp for children. She said that
type of work is what she is more Inclined
to do.
*l don't see it (her present work) as
being really a full-time Job,* she said.
'I'm just kind of into it. *
One of the problems Daley has to
contend with is getting enough children
for her program.
There are hardly any kids out there,"
she said, 'one of the factors is that 80
percent of my kids are bused. I'm
supposed to go around to classrooms,
put up posters, get to the parents. A tot
of the parents are working, and it's hard
to get in touch with them.
'Sometimes I put notices in the
teachers' boxes, asking them to annou¬
nce things to their classes, but a tot of
the time they don't bother,' she added.
The principal, though, has really
worked with me - he's been really
helpful.*
Daley  has  to contend with   other
problems. 'The kids are always threa¬
tening to quit a team, like now during
football season. It's not real fun when
they throw tantrums." '—
'I've had no real disasters. We have to
transport kids to other schools, and
sometimes we don't have enough cars,
that sort of thing. A while ago we had to
have one of the cheerleaders play in a
football game because there weren't
enough boys. Boy, that was interesting.'
'It's exciting when a kid makes a good
play, because they look over at you to see
if you were watching.
'One of the boys will make a real good
play and the next minute he'll throw a
tantrum.*
Daley said she likes working with the
older children. 'The first graders and
the kindergarteners don't have the
verbal skills, and it's harder for me to
work with them."
Daley has three more semesters to
complete before she earns her degree.
She will probably be working at tne same
school next semester and she would like
to put in some more playground time.
''I'd like to stay with these kids,'she
said.. "I already know them and they
wouldn't have to adjust to someone
new.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Pae*S
PaWtf Armstrong's
American Journal
Klan murders
Although it got less press coverage than the fictitous mystery of
who shot J.R., the recent acquittal of six Ku Klux Klan and Nazi
party members accused of killing five antl-Klan demonstrators
last year in Greensboro, N.C. Is certain to have serious real-life reper¬
cussions. Together with the unsolved murders of black schoolchildren
In Atlanta and the killings of black men In Buffalo, this indefensible
decision could signal a return to the Stone Age of American race re¬
lations.
The acquittal by an all-white jury in Greensboro on Nov. 17 files In
the face of evidence that appears to establish the guilt of Klan and
Nazi gunmen. The most graphic documentation comes in the form of
videotapes of the So-second fusillade that killed five Communist
Workers Party (CWP) members on Nov.. 3, 1979 and wounded six
others. The tapes were made by Creensboro television Journalists
covering the an ti- K Ian rally where the shootings took place.
With Jean Quan, a CWP media liaison, and Nelson Johnson, a
Creensboro activist who survived the gunfire, I reviewed the video¬
tapes last April. What "I saw established the cool deliberation with
which Klansmen and Nazis fired Into a crowd of demonstrators that
included schoolchildren. The tapes showed the gunmen smiling,
talking and stopping to reload during the attack. None looked worried
about police—who were not at the rally-arriving to spoil their deadly
sport. None appeared to be in a hurry.
On the tapes I saw, the shootings were preceded by a shouting
match between CWP members and supporters and KKKers, who
drove slowly through the site of the rally. In the heart of a black hous¬
ing project. I saw demonstrators rap the Klan and Nazi cars with
sticks and pound their hands on the hoods of the vehicles. I did not
see any demonstrators brandish guns or attack the persons of Klan
and Nazi members. This is important, since the basis of the acquittal
was the jury's conclusion that Klansmen and Nazis fired on demon¬
strators to save their own lives.
After the initial ruckus, two shots are heard on the soundtrack.
Demonstrators argued that the shots were signals fired by the KKK,
giving the go-ahead to open fire. Defense lawyers claimed that the
shots were fired at the Klan. The only demonstrator shown on the
tape to have a gun was Bill Simpson, one of the slain CWP activists,
and he appears to shoot only after being knocked to the ground by
club-weildhig assailants. A union organizer, Sampson had a permit to
carry the gun.
The Klansmen. as the videotaoes show with sickening clarity,
had an entire trunkful of weapons which they proceeded to empty
into the crowd. The tapes were introduced as evidence in the subse¬
quent trial, but jurors drew far different conclusions from them than
did most other persons who saw \hem>
Perhaps even more significant to the trial's outcome, however,
was evidence that was not introduced in court about the provocative
role of undercover government agents in the shootings.
According to the Aug. 25,1980 Wall Street Journal, 'It seems that
an FBI agent who had Infiltrated the Nazis gave them valuable weap¬
ons advice and may have urged them to bring guns to the Creens¬
boro rally. And a former Klan official turned Creensboro police
informer evidently gave the Klansmen directions to. . . the rally.'
The FBI agent was identified in the Aug. 3,1980 issue of the Creens¬
boro Daily News as Bernard Butkovich. The paper identified the
police informer as Edward W. Dawson.
Amazingly, neither Butkovich nor Dawson was charged with a
crime, or even called as a witness in the 96-day trial, the longest in
See KKK pages
1 Agenda law brought
to Senate attention
By Glenn HaBer
The Associated Students was taken by
surprise at last Tuesday's meeting when
it was advised of a present California law
that dictates that all agendas must be
printed and posted one week before any
meeting.
According to the law, which the Chan¬
cellor's office has said encompasses all
CSU senates, additions can not be made
to the agenda once it is posted.
Additions to the agenda to accommo¬
date 'rush' actions by the senate is a
common practice at A.S. meetings.
The veto of a $30,000 appropriation to
the library by A.S. President Luis Seoul-
veda was added to Tuesday's agenda at
the meeting.
Failure to comply with the law is a
misdemeanor.
T.-c iaw presents problems for the
senate in that it will take a greater
amount of time to channel a proposal
through committees, which are also
mandated by the law to produce an
agenda a week in advance and voted on
by the senate.
'We are talking about a three week
delay,* said Charlie Burt, senator of the
School of Business.
The average time that a proposal is in
committee is a week and a half.
The Legal and Legislative committee
will take up the matter of how this law
will be observed by the senate.
Agendas are available In the A.S.
offices.
The senate is looking for a Senator of
the School of Agriculture, a position that
was opened at the meeting when Charlie
Castellanl was absent for his sixth meet¬
ing, and was automatically dismissed.
The senate also augmented $3,245 to
the recreation budget to allow the using
of the pool, basketball courts and other
recreational services during the Christ¬
mas holidays.
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