Tapes for Coordination between High School and College

There are many facets to the problem of generating articulation between the language learnings begun in our schools and the continuation of these learnings in our colleges. One of these is the need to develop a communication system by which any institution, secondary or college, can readily keep any other institution informed on what its program is basically like. Schools and colleges have been attempting to communicate through the journals, the forums staged by professional associations, joint school and college or university conferences, individual discussions face-to-face or through correspondence, programs of class visitation, college catalogs and high school syllabi. But these means of communication have obviously not been working very well, for what the schools know about the college programs and what the colleges know about the school programs is marked by a fabulous amount of ignorance. The greatest potential for real communication probably lies in a cross-visitation program. No amount of talk about what is being done can produce the true understanding that can be reached by actual observation. Unfortunately, not enough people have the time, or are willing to take the time, to observe the teaching practices of others

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