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Show Wide selection offered at SUSC summer school workshops A series of workshops has been scheduled in conjunction with Southern Utah State College Col-lege Summer School, it was announced by Dr. McRay Cloward, dean of the SUSC School of Continuing Education Educa-tion and Public Services. Beginning June 21 will be a Learning Disabilities Seminar and a Piano Workshop. The four-day seminar will introduce intro-duce students to the current developments in the teaching of pupils with learning disabilities. disa-bilities. Dr. Cloward said. Special guest instructors will Introduce their point of view on diagnosis and treatment treat-ment of learning disabilities. Papers will be presented and seminar discussions will follow fol-low up the presentations. The eourso is under the direction f f Dr. Kent Myers of the SUSC School of Education. He will be assisted by a yptvial l-taLf of visiting confcultants. The ten diy IUSo Work- shop will be primarily for piano pi-ano instructors, prospective piano teachers, and students of piano. Emphasis will be on 20th century piano music from Debussy to the present and will include interpretation interpreta-tion problems and techniques. Prc-college piano students and others may participate for non-credit by paying the workshop fee of $15. Professor Hal Campbell of the SUSC Music Department is instructor instruct-or and director. Visiting clin-, clin-, ician will be Reid Nibley. ! Jegin July 6 Workshops beginning July 6 include Student Teaching Remedial Education and Reading Clinic for Remedial Readers. Both will last for one month, ending on Aug. 6. The remedial education workshop is designed for elementary ele-mentary and secondary teachers teach-ers and teacher trainees who are working toward a remed-' remed-' iaj education endorsement Participants will work with children from the public schools. The program will be under the direction of Craig Ingram, Southwest Educational Education-al Development Center, and staff members from SUSC. The reading clinic will involve in-volve small groups of school age children who need special help with reading. Diagnosis of reading problems will be offered, with specialized testing test-ing and reading instruction. Instructors will include Mr. Ingram, Bruce Bower, coordinator coor-dinator of Special Education, Northeastern Educational Service Ser-vice Agency, and Jay McLaughlin, Mc-Laughlin, instructor in learning learn-ing disabilities at the University Uni-versity of Utah. Programs beginning on July 12 include the workshop on Teaching Values in the Elementary Ele-mentary School and the Youth Physical Fitness Program. The teaching values course will !it u.V-4 July H mi will focus on many specific teaching strategies designed to help students think their way through problems and resolve their value concepts. The class is applicable to both elementary and secondary second-ary teachers. Dr. Gwyn Clark of the SUSC School of Education Educa-tion is instructor. Physical training The Youth Fhyslcal Fitness Program is a four-week course of intensive physical training for boys and girls ages 'J through 1 1. Specialist will help the student understand and develop the key elements in motor performance. A profile pro-file will be prepared for each participant. Activities will include weight training, aquatics, gymnastics, posture training, track and field, field athletics, conditioning activities, activi-ties, and endurance. Tests will be given before and after the program is completed. In-;U In-;U actor are Pr. truce C borne, SUSC athletic director and chairman of the PE. Department, De-partment, and staff members. Beginning on July 19 will be a comprehensive workshop on Women in Today's World. The week long cours9 will be open to women of all ages, including seniors in high school. The workshop will focus on the roles of women in today's complex society, according to SUSC Dean of Women Georgia Beth Smith. Evening programs, which are open to the public, will include in-clude panel discussions, speeches, and individual views by SUSC staff members mem-bers and visiting specialists. July 26 through Aug. 6 workshops include Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary Elemen-tary School and th? Western States Choral Symposium. The social studies workshop is designed for teachers and prospective teachers to help thxra analyze the many un derstandings and social responsibilities re-sponsibilities inherent in group life. Instruction will also be provided on ways to become aware of the existing problems in social living and plans which can provide desirable de-sirable experiences and programs pro-grams in social studies for elementary school children. Dr. Robert Moss SUSC School of Education, is instructor. Emphasize choral arts Th( choral symposium will emphasize many phases of the choral arts, including the large massed choir, small chamber groups, seminars in conducting technique, composing, com-posing, sight singing, music creativity, and folk music. The course, which is limited to 70 participants, is open to high school juniors and seniors sen-iors ahd college freshmen and sophomores. Sessions will be held at tlie Brian Head Ski Resort and on the- SUSC campus. |