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Local in-service training is continuously provided for all staff
members and teachers themselves share in planning and carrying out
such programme.
Relationship of the School to the Community and Conservation Agencies.
The school has the support and understanding of the community
and the community is informed about the conservation education
programme of the school.
The lay leadership of the community has considerable responsibility
in developing and carrying out the conservation education programme
of the school. This includes providing conservation
educational facilities.
The school utilizes available community resources, such as governmental
agencies, private organizations, and industries, while recognizing
that the major responsibility for the programmes rests with the
school.
Inventories of teaching resources and facilities of the community
are developed and kept up-to-date with the help of the agencies,
organizations, industries and individuals concerned.
The Programme and Its Planning.
Conservation permeates the entire school programme.
The programme, directed toward meeting needs of that area,
starts with conservation problems of the community.
The conservation problems and progress of larger areas, including
their own and other States, the Nation and other nations, are studied
on basis of understandings gained about their own area.
The school practices what it preaches, that is, it sets a good
example in the use of resources both for itself and for the community.
The programme recognizes the needs and interests of children.
Teaching.
Teachings begins with resources or resource-use problems of the
community.
Local problems in which children have special interest are used
as starting points in teaching.
Teacher-pupil planning is characteristic of the teaching of conservation
throughout the system.
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