An Innovation for Summer Institutes: Administrators Too! Summer Institute programs for secondary school teachers of science are held on many college campuses. The programs directed toward national curriculum efforts include CHEM Study and CBA, among others, and the participants are usually classroom teachers who return to their schools to teach the new materials the following fall. I t was felt that the school administrators and supervisors could benefit from a similar experience. Accordingly, a Supervisors' Conference was established as part of our 1965 CHEM Study Summer Institute. The unique aspect of this conference was that the supervisoa of the Institute participants were invited. A joint program for the final three days of the regular Institute included sessions for the teachers, for the administrators, and for the combined groups. Dr. C. A. VanderWerf of Hope College, Gerard Kass, a CHEM Study teacher, and Paul Hovesepian of the Detroit Public Schools participated in the sessions, dong with a panel of former CHEM Study students and the Institute staff. The response from supervisors and teachers was one of enthusiastic endorsement. Highlights of the conference included a display in the laboratories of the CHEM Study experiments, each one set up and operated by a participant; an evening presentation of Demonstrations in Chemistry by Jerry Jrtnssen, Laboratory coordinator; and the observations of Dr. VanderWerf. The addition of a. supervisors' session to a summer institute promotes communication between the classroom teacher and his administration. The expense of the venture is relatively small and the opportunities for effecting curriculum improvements are potentially large.
JULIAN R. BRANDOW MICHIGAN STATEUNNERSITY EAST LANBINQ, MICHIGAN
104 / Journal of Chemicol Educofion
