Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 41 No. 01 (10 Feb 1960)
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Contents

Education Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers’ Federation 1
PROPOSED TEMPORARY TEACHERS' COLLEGE 1
18,000 Signatures in Three Days for New Teachers’ College at Wollongong 1
Toddlers’ Classes Largest of All, Survey Reveals 1
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD “DISCHARGE ITS NATIONAL OBLIGATION TO YOUTH OF AUSTRALIA”: A.T.F. CONFERENCE 1 , 2
U.S. EDUCATION Doubling of Expenditure Proposed to Meet Demand for Schools and Teachers 2
More and Better Education Essential 2
SCHOOL PHONE RENTS 2
TRAFFIC CONTROL: SOME RELIEF PROMISED 2
A.T.F. ANNUAL CONFERENCE “Education Cannot Develop While States Financially Bound to Commonwealth”: S.A. Minister 3
Federal Aid: A.C.T.U’s Appeal 3
SITES FOR TEACHERS' COLLEGES 3
EDUCATION COULD BENEFIT FROM REDUCTION IN DEFENCE FORCES 3
PARK OR HIGH SCHOOL? CITIZENS DECIDE 3
COMMONWEALTH SAVINGS BANK'S £4OO DONATION TO FEDERATION LIBRARY 3
A.T.F. ANNUAL CONFERENCE Growing Demand Everywhere lor Federal Aid lor Education: Call to Commonwealth 4
TEACHERS AS D.R.O.s 4
“A.C.S.O.” AND ITS SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION ADVANCE, FEDERAL AID 4
“FOR THIS RELIEF MUCH THANKS”: APOINTMENT OF 200 CLERKS ANNOUNCED 4
INFANTS' ENROLMENTS 4
“Unjustifiable Anomaly”: Correspondence Teachers’ Appeal to School Staffs 4
A.T.F. ANNUAL CONFERENCE Need for Salaries That Will Attract Best Talent to the Teaching Profession 5
REVISED HIGH SCHOOLS PROMOTIONS LISTS 5
Margins: Discussions With P.S. Board Proceeding 5
Model Railway as Realistic Second-year Project 5
A.T.F. ANNUAL CONFERENCE Plan for Exchange of Teachers and Delegations With S.E. Asian Countries Endorsed 6
LIMITED FUNDS MEW CLASSROOMS BEFORE PLAYING FIELDS 6
Esperanto as Introduction to Study of Other Languages 6
HEALTH SOCIETY: MORE BENEFITS FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT 6
REPLIES TO VARIOUS REPRESENTATIONS 6
FEDERATION ASSOCIATE (RETIRED TEACHERS) 6
A.N.Z. Peace Congress: Education Conference Delegates’ Report as Adopted by Council 7
Education 8
INVASION ! 8
THIS CROSSING CALLS FOR CONSTABLE MENZIES The President Writes: 1960’s PROBLEMSAND A NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE 8
"ALL ROADS WILL LEAD TO SYDNEY": NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN MAY 8
REMOVING INTERNATIONAL MISUNDERSTANDING: W.C.O.T.P. ASSEMBLY DISCUSSIONS 8
AN 80th ANNIVERSARY Pioneers of Public Instruction 9
SURF-BOARD AND SKI RIDERS RECENT BOOKS All About Surfing 9
Secondary English Text 9
Slaves of the Space Age? 9
Professional Topics: MODERN SOLUTIONS AND THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION 10
Contributions by Members INFANTS-PRIMARY SCHOOL PATTERN MAKING 10
"HELP INDIA" APPEAL 10
ANNUAL TEACHERS' SERVICE 1960 10
The Training of Teachers 11 , 12
From Far and Near 12
“Teachers’ Colleges Key to Education’s Development” 13
WHY NOT A CANTEEN FOR CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL? 13
PROFESSOR BEN MORRIS TO LECTURE IN MARCH 13
WOMEN ASSISTANTS1 ASSOCIATION 13
BOARD EXAMINING NEW PROPOSALS ON EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PROMOTION 13
CANCELLING CLASS WHEN TEACHER ABSENT 13
HEALTH SOCIETY RULES 13
WATER SKHNG 13
FEDERATION LIBRARY Recent Accessions 13
long Service leave: How Act Was Amended; Present Conditions 14
INSURANCE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN: OFFICIAL STATEMENT 14
TO THE TEACHER OF FRENCH 14
Advertising 14
Federation Information The attention of members is drawn to the following information concerning Federation membership and services: 15
DISTRIBUTION OF "EDUCATION" 15
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND: FACULTY OF EDUCATION Course in Diagnostic Testing and Remedial Teaching 15
Advertising 15
ANGUS AND ROBERTSON LTD. PUBLISHERS-BOOKSELLERS BRING YOU NEW and reliable tested titles Inspect these NEW secondary titles 16

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Education  

Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers’ Federation  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, for transmission by post as newspaper.  

Vol. 41. No. 1.  

FEBRUARY 10, 1960  

Price: Threepence.  

PROPOSED TEMPORARY TEACHERS' COLLEGE  

The Federation and the Illawarra Parent-Teacher Education Council are asking that  

this building—the former Wollongong Home Science School—be used as temporary  

teachers’ college accommodation pending the erection of the projected Wollongong  

Teachers’ College. It is believed that the building will be vacant in the daytime for  

the whole of 1960. Picture by courtesy “South Coast Times”.  

18,000 Signatures in Three  

Days for New Teachers’ College  

at Wollongong  

During the last three weeks of  

the 1959 school year Federation  

activity in the Illawarra area was  

stepped up to high level.  

The Illawarra and North Illawarra  

Associations did splendid job in  

promoting local activity on the  

urgent need for teachers’ college to  

be established in Wollongong in 1960.  

Teachers played major part in organis-  

ing and conducting an intensive campaign  

which was promoted by the Illawarra Branch  

of the Parent-Teacher Education Council.  

The Federation made available to the  

P.T.E.C. the services of Mr. Hilling, Organ-  

iser for the Southern Area.  

18,000 Signatures  

The principal activity of the campaign  

was the collecting of signatures to petition  

asking the Premier and Minister for Edu-  

cation, Mr. Heffron, to take urgent action to  

provide teachers’ college in Wollongong  

to serve the southern area. More than 18,000  

signatures were obtained in the Wollongono-  

area over period of only three days. Mos*t  

of the signatures were obtained at the poll-  

ing booths on December 5, where large  

force of workers manned tables from Bam  

to p.m.  

Although confident that many additional  

signatures could have been obtained, the  

P.T.E.C. decided to make an early approach  

to the Premier. This was to ensure that the  

maximum amount of time could be used to  

make arrangements for teacher training in  

Wollongong in 1960. As result the petition  

was delivered to Mr. Heffron on Thursday,  

December 17.  

Ideal Situation  

The Illawarra Branch of the Parent-  

Teacher Education Council believes that  

Wollongong is the ideal situation for the  

next teachers’ college to be established in  

New South Wales. The area provides an ade-  

quate number of suitable and qualified ap-  

plicants for teacher training, and has wide  

range of schools for practice teaching.  

Further, there is vacant school building in  

Smith Street, Wollongong which could be  

used temporarily to accommodate the first  

intake of trainees. The Parent-Teacher body  

has particularly requested Mr. Heffron to  

approve the use of this building as tem-  

porary teachers’ college in 1960. This could  

be used until permanent building is com-  

pleted on land which has been set aside for  

this purpose.  

Splendid Public Response  

In addition to the splendid public re-  

sponse to the petition, there has been wide-  

spread support for the establishment of  

teachers’ college from organisations in the  

Wollongong area. These organisations in-  

clude the Chamber of Commerce, trade  

unions and the Churches.  

The people of Wollongong are convinced  

of the urgent need for more teachers to be  

trained. They believe that the extension of  

teacher training to Wollongong is logical  

step to help overcome the grave teacher  

shortage, and is natural educational de-  

velopment in their rapidly growing city.  

Mr. Heffron has expressed extreme con-  

fidence in the future of Wollongong and  

the people now look to him to give lead in  

the advancement of education in the area.  

Toddlers’ Classes Largest of  

All, Survey Reveals  

brochure giving the results  

of the recent survey of infants’  

classes has been produced.  

The survey, which was conducted  

by the Research Officer, covered 487  

infants schools and departments  

This represented 97 per cent of the  

schools and departments to which  

the questionnaires were sent.  

The following conclusions were drawn  

from the survey:  

• Infants are the hardest hit by the  

teacher shortage with 68 per cent of children  

classes of 40 and more, compared with  

50 per cent in primary schools and 60 per  

cent in first-, second- and third-year classes  

in secondary schools.  

• he rve showed no improvement on  

the size of classes as compared with those  

of the previous year (1958). Ninety-nine per  

cent of infants were still being taught in  

classes of 30 or more—classes too large for  

?5 eC S.\ Ve teaching. (The Delegate Assembly of  

the World Confederation of Organisations of  

he Teaching Profession, meeting in Frank-  

furt 1-957, set the maximum size of in-  

fants classes at from 25 to 30).  

Handful of Small Classes  

• The handful of small classes which do  

exist are due to special circumstances such  

as the following:  

The children are migrants who do not  

speak English; thus at Greta Migrant Camp  

all infants classes are under 30;  

Some small classes are remedial or op-  

portunity classes, though even some of those  

include up to 35 children;  

Very small rooms which will not hold bm  

classes; on some returns teachers explained  

the phenomenon of small class as due to  

the fact that it was being taught in hat  

room;  

Demonstration schools have classes smaller  

than average—usually 30 or so children, but  

some as low as 25.  

Kindergarten Classes Largest  

• Kindergarten classes, comprising the  

youngest children just starting school, are  

far larger than the rest of the infants’  

classes.  

• Nearly 10 per cent of kindergarten  

classes were of 50 or more, compared with  

three per cent of all infants’ classes.  

® There were 5,025 children still awaiting  

admission to kindergarten classes in the last  

term of 1959.  

Appeal to M.L.A.s  

copy of the brochure has been forwarded  

to each member of the Legislate Assembly.  

In covering letter the General Secretary  

says:  

The rapid advance of science and tech-  

nology are focussing more and more at-  

tention upon public education, so that gov-  

ernments all over the world are seeking to  

raise the level of education in their coun-  

tries to meet the conditions of automation  

and the space age. The most vital factor in  

this respect is sufficiency of adequately  

educated and trained teachers to ensure  

classes of reasonable size.  

“Though the overcrowding is greatest in  

infants, schools, the position in secondary  

and primary schools is not mucn better.  

“The interests of the children in this State,  

and the progress of the State, make it im-  

perative that thousands more teachers be  

trained. We are confident that you will  

make every effort to see that additional  

teachers’ colleges are established, and that  

every suitable and qualified applicant is  

granted teachers’ college scholarship.”  

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT  

SHOULD “DISCHARGE ITS  

NATIONAL OBLIGATION  

TO YOUTH OF AUSTRALIA”:  

A.T.F. CONFERENCE  

Urgency of Federal aid to the States for education  

was emphasised again by the Annual Conference of the  

Australian Teachers' Federation last month.  

"Having full knowledge of the crisis conditions  

in education throughout Australia and the difficulties  

of the States in providing the finance to overcome this  

position", the resolution declared, "this conference of  

Australian teachers calls on the Federal Government to  

discharge its national obligation to the youth of Australia."  

The resolution said this should be done by the Federal  

Government—  

• Making substantial emergency grant to the States for  

education under Section 96 of the Constitution;  

• Immediately setting up committee, on the same  

pattern as the Murray Committee, to inquire into the needs of  

primary, secondary and technical education on nation-wide  

basis.  

It asked that all State teachers’  

unions take the necessary steps to  

have State Premiers raise these mat-  

ters at the next Premiers’ Conference.  

The proposal was submitted by the  

N.S.W. Teachers’ Federation.  

It was also decided, at the instance  

of the Victorian Teachers’ Union,  

that, “as senior technical education  

is in the field of tertiary education,  

and as the Commonwealth Govern-  

ment has acepted the principle of as-  

sistance to tertiary education, the  

A.T.F. place before the Prime Mini-  

ster case for Commonwealth assist-  

ance for technical education, parti-  

cularly in the provision of buildings  

and equipment, as national respon-  

sibility.”  

further resolution, submitted by  

the State School Teachers’ Union of  

Western Australia, asked that, to help  

overcome the national shortage of  

teachers, the Commonwealth Govern-  

ment make money available for ade-  

quate allowances for adult teacher  

trainees so as to attract mature-aged  

entrants who possess educational  

qualifications of at least matriculation  

standard.  

National Conference for  

Sydney  

To advance the cause of education  

in Australia it was decided to seek  

the co-operation of the Australian  

Council of School Organisations  

(Federal body of parents’ associations)  

in holding national meeting of  

teacher-parent and other interested  

bodies in Sydney on May 21. Each  

teachers’ union is to be asked to pre-  

sent to the meeting survey of school  

conditions in its State.  

The Conference was held in Ade-  

laide on January 4,5, 6, and 7.  

N.S.W. Federation delegates were Mr.  

S. P. Lewis, Mr. E. J. Nicholls, Mr. F.  

A. Doyle, Miss E. W. Mattick, Miss  

H. Barclay and Miss M. A. Reid. Mr.  

E. W. Golding (S.A.), President of the  

A.T.F., presided. Mr. W. D. Dobell  

(N.S.W.), was re-elected Secretary of  

the A.T.F.  

Teachers Salaries  

Concerning teachers’ salaries, the  

Conference adopted the following  

statement originating with the  

N.S.W. Federation:  

“This Conference of representatives of  

Australian teachers directs the attention of  

the public, State Governments and the  

various salary-fixing authorities to the  

urgent need to grant proper recognition in  

terms of remuneration to teachers.  

“The acknowledged desirability of raising  

the standard of educational attainments of  

the Australian people in this age of swift  

scientific and technological advances to the  

highest possible level so that they may play  

their part in democratic community and  

use their leisure time to advantage, em-  

phasises the need to recruit the best possible  

talent to the teaching profession. This fact,  

coupled with the desperate shortage of train-  

ed teachers that exists in each State; the  

ever-increasing demands, qualitatively and  

quantitatively, made upon the teaching pro-  

fession; the failure to give to teachers  

proper share in the vastly increased wealth  

of our country; and the shrinking of the  

value of the marginal element contained in  

teachers’ salaries makes it imperative that  

action be taken to increase such salaries  

very substantially.  

“To this end, Conference agrees:  

“• That there should be adequate allow-  

ances paid to all students in training for  

the teaching profession;  

“• That there should be an adequate  

minimum salary sufficient to attract suitable  

and properly qualified teachers to the Ser-  

vice;  

“• That the assured maximum salary for  

the classroom teacher should be high enough  

to provide proper professional standard;  

“• That the salary obtainable should be  

appropriate to the responsibilities and the  

services rendered to the community;  

“• That all salaries should be based on  

the principle of equal pay;  

“ #That in view of the marginal increases  

of 28% recently made to the metal trades  

and the consequential granting of up to  

33-1/3 per cent increases in existing margins  

to practically all sections of the salary and  

wage earning community;  

“Conference therefore recommends that  

all State teachers’ unions take the necessary  

action to achieve the aims and to urge their  

respective wage-fixing authorities to grant  

immediately those marginal increases to all  

members of the teaching service.’’  

Exchange with South-east  

Asia  

The Conference decided that  

teacher exchange with the countries  

of South-east Asia should be encour-  

aged, and suggested the following  

ways and means of effecting it:  

“Delegations, etc., from Australia: (1) By  

means of (a) formal delegations—all ex-  

penses paid, (b) allocation of travel grants —  

some assistance towards costs, (c) efforts to  

extend the Colombo Plan to cover teacher  

delegations, etc.; (2) Exchanges and visits to  

be arranged at all levels of the teaching ser-  

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