Document Type
Report
Publisher
Churchlands Teachers College
Place of Publication
Churchlands, Western Australia
Abstract
The Churchlands Teachers College was established in 1972 and at September, 1973, had a total enrolment of 422, including 253 first-year students and 169 students in their second year of primary training. The programme is being developed in accommodation designed on similar principles to the open-area primary schools which are being established in Western Australia. Teaching blocks are modular cluster units, each of which typically comprises a large open area surrounded by teaching areas of adjustable size, a tutorial room and staff studies. The teaching blocks are positioned in close relationship to the centrally-placed buildings of the Educational Resources Service which consists of the Library and the Audio Visual Centre. At the present time the buildings which are completed are Administration, Art Education, Communications, Education and Psychology, Social Sciences, Lecture Theatre, Library and Audio Visual Centre. Also available for teaching purposes is the building which was previously the Churchlands Primary School. In the current trienniurn further buildings which will be available for occupation are Mathematics and Science, Cafeteria and Student Association, and Music and Drama. In addition, the proposed Gymnasium will be erected at the beginning of the 1976-78 triennium to complete the first phase of the development envisaged in the initial planning of the College. In the long term, the forty acre site could accommodate up to 3,000 students, and development beyond initial planning will undoubtedly take place. The staff of the College is prepared to expand the programme to train teachers for pre-school institutions, for secondary schools, and in the future to consider the establishment of tertiary courses other than teacher education. It is also anticipated that the three-year course will be extended to four years to enable a selected number of students to continue to degree status both on a full-time and part-time basis. Accordingly, an important principle adopted in the planning of the diploma is that there should be sufficient flexibility in the structure of the course to enable course expansion and extension to be implemented without the need for major revisions of the existing course organization.
Comments
Churchlands Teachers College. (1973). A submission for the Award of a Diploma of Teaching. Churchlands, Australia: Churchlands Teachers College