European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                F / of i per top int i picture of Tho  d rather do some of those psyched Elic patterns said a boy named  was talking about Paisley a per Sian pattern which came to us by Way of Scotland mrs. Hall said. She Lei the class vote and Paisley won Over May Flower 2-1. Make them Gay and gaga  said passing out paper crayons and Watercolours and drawing Basic Patterson the Board. A it is is a Teardrop upside Dow with a curly Tail one student said. Mrs. Hall said she often gives the Stu dents six seconds to paint a portrait of the teacher or some other  paint fast is to break Down resist once to realism she said. We keep the fast Watercolours and Cut them up to make sophisticated  some specially teachers hand Leone subject like music Art or physical education for the whole school. Bill Bradley of Chetopa kan., teaches music to All students at Heidelberg no. 2, to example. Sec Page 15. Heidelberg no. 2 has an enrolment of 1,500 pupils and 47 classroom teachers plus one music Man five German teach ers a speech therapist a Reading specialist a guidance Counselor a h handles the testing program a Library assistant two secretaries a principal and an assistant principal. It totals 60, but our Pupil teacher ratio per is counted As one to 30 because All of the staff does t count As  said William Lutz the principal. Our last per was 43 and it s the bes this year it s Ever  in Mainz Lairo said he tries to hold the per at 27 with 30 teachers for 808 students and two teachers for Tho educable mentally retarded. At one time teachers in us Desea complained theper was too High but apparently the situation has  per is always a Little higher in the bigger schools Lairo said. This sin contrast to schools such As the one in Zwolle Germany where the teacher has Only 17 pupils. Ils Desea uses Host nation teachers for its elementary school foreign Lan Guage program. Five German women teach their native Tongue at Heidelberg elementary no. 2, for example begin Ning with  year we established the linguistic method of teaching which is More Oral than written said Lutz. It takes time to change a teacher s methods an what we re doing now is actually a combination of methods but we emphasize the audio visual. We have basically three types of try to create an appetite for language.9 99 the world of learning spec. 4 Charles Conroy is a special Friend for children crossing Kaiserslautern Street. German classes one for the entirely new student just Over from the states another for the Middle group and an other for advanced students who have considerable background in the Langu age perhaps with German  a class of fourth graders was speak ing rapid German with their teacher Frau Margret Behnke. Frau Hilde Plue Ger who is a Veteran of the american school staff said grammar is not taught in the old cumbersome Way. There is no conjugation anymore she said. We try to create an appetite for  a second Grade class at Kaiserslautern mrs. Liliane St. Clair one of three Host nation teachers was leading a song in  one fourth of our pupils have some German background she  do a lot of singing and the children learn colors and How to count. Most important they learn to identify themselves so they can give their names and addresses in Case they Are  at Kaiserslautern elementary no. 1,principal Winfred Nelson said some of his teachers Wear German dirndl an lederhosen every tuesday and one Day a year everybody does. It s not new math at All just a different language. Four plus five is still nine but children Are not drilled on tables anymore. Mathematics is introduced differently Good readers move ahead to books such Ai treasure  there Are Many other efforts to teach the american children German culture. Berlin elementary had a play which compared German and american Christ Mas customs. A German american teacher Exchange is in he making. Last year at Wiesbaden elementary an american class exchanged rooms with a class at the Mainz Kastein German school. The air Force furnished transportation and it worked very Well Gartner said we would like to do More of this but you need a bilingual american  in Berlin Ann Marie Truhart who teaches in the German Tempelhof school brought 31 first year English students to the american school for a Day s visit. One of my boys said he did t understand a word she confided. The american school has More room Thane do and there is More self discipline  at the Crestview elementary schooling Wiesbaden Frau Helga Stroschein was teaching second graders a German song and dance. Wir Machen uns Gross we make ourselves big chanted the kids As they raised their arms overhead. Wir Machen uns Klein Small they said stooping. School curriculum committees have funnelled suggestions to us Desea he in Karlsruhe that new texts for Grade school history and math cows is Are perhaps in order. Pilot programs teat new books. At Malax elementary Tho Basic math series put out by science research Agency Sra is being used As Well As newer  teachers use different books and one teacher in the fourth Grade handles All three texts said Lairo. He said publishing House representatives come lit frequently to Demon Strate How their texts should to  Jean Carmen the teacher who use three texts said All continue these called new math program. It s not new math at All just a Dif Ferent language she said. Tour plus five is still nine but children Are not drilled on tables anymore. Mathematics is introduced differently and a child learns the Laws of addition its communicative and associative properties which to will use in higher Siath miss Carmen also teaches Penman ship German and music to her class. The re haired Camargo okla., teacher formerly worked on Okinawa and is in the third year at  is a period of transition in teaching math Tho said. Many teach ers Are having to take courses to adjust to the new  she said she uses a lot of manipulated models to demonstrate theories of math. The 34 children Ages i and 10 taught by miss Carmen have had a Little prob Jem adjusting to the Pilot program she said. We gave tests and our children tested below the average in the states she said. But the new texts Are definitely an improvement. I already have a preference among the new textbooks but it is too Early to talk about  teachers such As miss Carmen Goto work at 8, a half hour before the children arrive and stay at least 30minutes after the children leave at 2 4$. She said she has been spending an extra Page 14 the stars and stripes sunday february 9, 1969