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Show SCHOOL OF EDUCATION The enrichment of lite is the overreaching goal of the School of Education. This goal is accomplished by providing our students with the understandings, the attitudes, and the skills for building secure and happy homes, for maintaining healthy minds and bodies, and for helping others to learn and profit from the great truths which are the heritage of mankind. Dr. Caseel D. Burke acts as Dean of the School of Education. In the Autumn Quarter of 1970 a new teacher education program was inaugurated in the School of Education. Identified as the Individualized Performance-based Teacher Education Program, it culminated several years of planning and development on the part of faculty, students, administration and public school personnel. The new program is based on a series of self-instructional modules called WILKITS (Weber Individualized Learning Kits) and it allows the student considerable latitude in selecting his own time and method for study and completion. Meeting acceptable levels of performance is the criterion on which the student advances through the program completion. Passing is the only grade issued. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education gave the Distinguished Achievement Award to Weber State College at the annual convention in Chicago in February, 1971, identifying the IPT Program as being the most significant achievement of the year in teacher education. Dr. Luan H. Ferrin (Right), Department of Elementary Education, was born and educated in the Ogden area. He holds degrees from Weber State College, B.Y.U., Utah State University, and the doctorate from Columbia University, New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Weber State he held positions as elementary school teacher, vice principal and principal in the Ogden City Schools. He also was a research fellow at Columbia University. Dr. Ferrin is a member of several profes-sional organizations in which he has held positions of leadership at various times. Department Chairman of the Department of Secondary Education (Below Left) is a native of Mud Lake, Idaho. His college degrees are from Idaho State University and the University of Denver from which the doctorate was awarded. Dr. Adamson taught several years at the high school level and came to Weber State from a position of associate professor of education at Northern State College in South Dakota. He is an active participant in several professional organizations. |