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Classroom planned for TV can also be used for traditional lectures—note “teaching center” which includes controls for all electronic equipment in the room. projects, and individual guidance and direction. Televised instruction is piped into your school's classrooms through closed-circuit TV, through open-circuit ETV station or through regular commercial television stations. Schools in Washington County, Maryland, have been testing ETV as a teaching aid for the past five years with the help of industry and foundation grants. More than 20 different closed-circuit TV courses, from Art to U.S. history, have been given to 18,000 students in the county's 48 schools. The use of its own in-school, closed-circuit television at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois, has spread so rapidly in five years that each of the 3,600 students is now being taught some material by TV. In addition to the many schools which have closed-circuit, in-school television, there is a network of 50 noncommercial educational-TV stations strung across the country. Your children may be watching lessons from these stations in school, and you may be able to watch the same telecast on your home-TV set. There's a potential audience of 70,000,000 viewers for these 50 stations. By 1970 there'll be at least 80 ETV stations reaching nearly every corner of America. In a national study of classroom facilities for use in ETV, the Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., recommended that new schools should be planned with ETV in mind. If a classroom is well planned, the report said, it will be equally effective for TV or “live” teaching. Space within the school building needs to be more flexible to allow for classes of all sizes, not the rigid rectangular classrooms we've always had. The study developed a plan for a “teacher center” instead of the traditional desk and chair arrangement. The “teacher center” would be a place for counseling as well as an electronic center for all the equipment in the room. Ways were suggested for adapting the wide variety of available TV equipment to particular school situations. Finally, the report envisioned that within a few years our schools will be able to buy, for the first time, an economical video-tape recorder to record particular lessons. This will let them build up a “bank” of telecasts to be used at will. TV TEACHING will help strengthen weak spots in a curriculum. In a rural school where perhaps only four seniors want to take physics, those four students can watch physics on television and see expert scientists demonstrate the lessons, using models and apparatus their own school couldn't possibly provide. Even in a well-equipped and fully staffed school, you can broaden and enrich the curriculum by ETV. Music, art, conversational French, Spanish, and other “extras” can be added with little expense. Another benefit is to give in-service training for the teachers. Classroom teachers benefit from the studio teacher's research, and class planning and technique improves. Continued on page 18

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