Interns Continued

A TEACHING program, inaugurated last year with marked success, is being repeated at Dartmouth for the present academic year. Ten young Teaching Interns joined the College faculty this fall, under a second grant of $35,000 from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, which was established by the Ford Foundation. The internship program was inaugurated at Dartmouth and other colleges in 1953-54 for the purpose of raising the standards of undergraduate teaching. The young teachers, just starting their careers, work closely with experienced members of the faculty to whom they are assigned for the year; and in addition to conducting their own classes they hold weekly seminars as a group to discuss teaching problems and techniques.

Last year, six Teaching Interns were appointed in the Departments of Art, Botany, the Classics, Government, History and Psychology. This year's group of ten is teaching six subjects not included before - Chemistry, English, Music, Romance Languages, Sociology and Zoology - plus Government, History (two interns) and Psychology.

In addition to his teaching duties, each intern is responsible for counselling ten or less students whose academic performance has not measured up to the ability indicated on achievement and aptitude tests. This plan, designed to give the interns some understanding of student problems, and the weekly seminars for the intern group have been special features of the internship program as conducted at Dartmouth. The seminars are directed by Arthur M. Wilson, Professor of Biography and Government, who is continuing as chairman of the program.

The first year's experiment with the Teaching Interns was successful enough to be hailed as one of the greatest stimulants to good teaching ever introduced at the College. Benefits from the program are realized not only by the interns but also by older members of the faculty who work with them.