Fifth Year of Teacher Education in Indiana

Abstract

With an increasing number of states mandating the campletion of a fifth year of preparation after initial teaching service, and the impact of salary differ entials for an additional year of prepara tion, interest in such programs is becom ing universal.

"Fifth Year of Teacher Education in Indiana" is significant because it presents not the viewpoints of a technician in teacher education, but the viewpoints of the products of teacher education—the teachers. Mr. Wyatt is Executive Sec retary of the Indiana State Teachers Association. The article is an abstract of the keynote address delivered before the opening session of a statewide con ference on the subject, held on the cam pus of Ball State Teachers College, July 16-18, 1952. The conference, involving representatives from the colleges, private and public, and every segment of the teaching profession, was devoted to the cooperative planning of fifth-year pro grams for the teachers of Indiana.