Teaching Interns

A New teaching program, sponsored by the Fund for the Advancement of Education, established by the Ford Foundation, is now under way at Dartmouth and several other educational institutions in the country. Designed to raise the standard of undergraduate teaching and to attract outstanding men to that career, an internship program has been set up for six young teachers under Dartmouth's grant of $35,000.

They are recent college and university graduates who are interested in becoming more effective teachers and who have shown noticeable promise. Appointed to the College faculty, their schedules are planned to be flexible, with each man working closely with the Dartmouth professor assigned to him for the year. Participants in the program are to give lectures, lead discussion groups, and under supervision, have the responsibility of conducting one section of some of the larger courses. Bi-monthly seminars will be held with members of the various departments taking part in the program, when there will be discussions of problems in teaching and methods of instruction.

In addition each teaching intern will be assigned to counsel not more than ten undergraduates. These will be chosen from the students whose performance in college does not tally with their achievement records in aptitude and other tests. The insight thus obtained into the problems of individual students is expected to be particularly valuable.

Teachers on the college level who have come to Dartmouth as participants in the Ford Foundation's special program are: Andrew M. Scott '46, Assistant Professor of Government, who obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration and is the author of The Anatomy of Communism; David B. Davis '48, Instructor in History, who took his M.A. degree at Harvard; William F. John, Instructor in Psychology, a 1948 graduate of Antioch College, who did graduate work at Indiana University and Harvard; Tewfik A. Toussoun, Instructor in Botany, a graduate of Cornell University in 1948, who has also studied at the University-of California; Richard E. Wagner, Instructor in Art and Archaeology, who has exhibited paintings in various galleries and who received the B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Colorado in 1950 and 1952; and S. Frederic Will Jr., Instructor in Classics, who received the B.A. degree from Indiana University in 1949 and has done graduate work at Yale and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens," Greece.