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Show 6A Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, July 27, 1983 Programs an Dava 5 Try to Umpmve '.Hidueation By CAROLE COLE - Davis Review Correspondent FARMINGTON v ' f V ' . r '7 ' Sy '' ' : , , - -- 6, ' y , V' W. y . y" s'- , , , ' ' ' ' , f ' C , 4 & , ' I, Staff photo by Rodnoy Wright . ! : CHERRIES are for sale along Mountain Road in Fruit Heights, Farmington and Kaysville. Here, Jared Clark has apparent- - ly reduced quick sale. the price of his product, for a Helping him is dog Sabasgion. Davis Hducafors Offer Ideas for Excel I e nee By CAROLE COLE Review Correspondent FARMINGTON At a workshop held July 21 and two-da- y administrators, teachers and advisory personnel met to discuss the needs and priorities of the Davis School District. Some of the issues addressed are those mentioned in the recent national educational report, A Nation at Risk. Dr. Lawrence E. Walling, 22, 38 Superintendent of Davis School District, feels that while many of the problems enumerated in A Nation at Risk parallel those of the district, not all of them do, and it was the workshops goal to identify problem areas of greatest concern to the Welling conducted the workshop and coordinated the efforts of the several study groups organized within the workshop. Primarily the educators, all of whom were at the workshop on their own time, were interested in improvement of the districts current program as well as identifying the needs of the trict and developing new rams that will enhance the disprogqual- - Course Set On Stress Management k A BOUNTIFUL course in education community stress management will be conducted on Tuesday afternoons, 4 p.m., beginning Aug. 2 at the Davis County Mental Health Center office in Bountiful. Travis Campbell, a clinical psychotherapist, will conduct class. He the 15- - to relates how stress is one of the most common problems we face throughout our lives. Every age has its own special stresses, he says, from dependency as a child, to role confusion in adolescence, to dealing with physical and emotional losses in old age. Stress also comes from many six-wee- 2-- other circumstances areas are basic and absolutely ity of education in the county. Brainstorming sessions de- essential for students to learn. veloped some 82 ideas that the For example, in the area of workshop participants thought mathematics, some 600 diffemight be beneficial. Those 82 rent things are being taught, but ideas were consolidated into 12 of those only 120 were conareas that the group considered sidered really essential. Those of greatest concern and worth to 120 have been identified as benthe district at this particular chmark skills. The study group time. recommends that teachers con1. Improve home and school centrate on teaching the bencommunication and public rela- chmark skills and test students tions, including course disclo- at least three times each year to sure. Reestablish a team see that the children are learnamong parents, ing them. spirit the business communteachers, 9. Improve teacher evaluation ity, and students. and train principals in evalua2 Establish an ongoing joint committee to promote excell- tion. 10. Develop a uniform, ence in Davis County schools. ct-wide 3. Make changes in elemenset of procedures for tary classrooms including smal- supporting and, if necessary, ler class loads, more support removing from the classroom personnel, more preparation those students who will not time, and use of specialists as learn. 11. Develop funding policies needed to teach art, music, physical education, etc. covering such items as ade4. Move extracurricular acquate materials, cost effectivities outside the regular in- tiveness, merit pay based on structional day, thus allowing teacher responsibility, and an more time on the task for stu- action program to provide adedents. Cooperate with cities and quate funding. 12. Increase the giftedtalent-e- d make greater use of community resources. program within the district. 5. Correlate curriculum in all Workshop participants idensubject areas, kindergaretn tified items 3, 4, 1, 6, 8, and 12, in through 12th grade, and have that order, as their top priority follow-u- p evaluations. items. It was also decided that 6. Help teachers be better preitems 3 and 8 could be merged pared (retraining, help for new into one item. teachers, help with majorminor Welling said that the next step is to allow for public input, take preparation). 7. Establish differentiated the proposed items to the school staffing, including summer board for their consideration, programs, merit pay, extended and then develop ideas to actrain- complish the proposed tasks. contracts, and ing, and increase funding for Representatives from each those programs. area of education (administra8. Increase requirements for tion, teachers, curriculum, and students (graduation, grades, elementary and secondary prinand benchmark testing). cipals) will be asked to return in The benchmark skills were a similar workshop in the near developed by a southwest reg- future to make recommendaion study group who identified tions on how the proposed items the areas that are being taught, may be integrated into the disthen determined which of those trict programs. MILE! MdDVMlB moving from it's present location. We would rather sell our present inventory than move it, therefore Beesley Music is we're offering... DRASTIC PRICE REDUCTIONS the home, the job, the environment. Handled well, stress can enor al- counter. Handled poorly, lowed to get out of hand, stress can trigger a variety of behaviors and physical illness, he said. Because many of lifes stres- 495 Easy Play self-defeati- sors such as ssures, unemployment, preen- vironmental disasters, such as and others, the are difficult to reduce or avoid, learning to strengthen our resources to cope can be critical for good health and happiness. In the class, Campbell will focus on the physical effects of stress, identifying potential sources of stress and the functional or adaptations we make to it, and a personal assessment of stressors and stress levels. The course emphasizes development of cognitive skills such as problem solving and controlling irrational thinking. In later class sessions, relaxa-iiotechniques are employed. 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Ideas developed at the workAccountability of both, report was critical of the curfor rent level of education in the shop later will be aired to the teachers and administratorsalso' has student to invited and the performance United States. public public been proposed. Superintendent Lawrence E. comment and present additional ideas. The process is a long Welling reported on the couWelling presented a chart ntys efforts thus far at the Board one, Welling stressed, as educawhich showed the encroachof Education meeting on July tion is up against a lot of tough ment that extracurricular ac19. He stated that A Nation at questions. tivities have made into the inOne particular problem that structional Risk is only one of three naday. In the 1940s and tional reports that have come needs to be addressed is how to 1950s, extracurricular activities out in the past couple of months. really compensate teachers for were conducted totally outside It will take the best efforts of the jobs they do. Merit pay is the regular school day. In the all of us educators, parents, only one aspect of that question. 1950s and 1960s the number of and students alike in order to Several ideas have been extracurricular activities inmake any significant inroads to- generated in response to the creased and some activities n Nation at Risk report. Most ward solving the problems that appearing as regular of them involve increasing the classes. face education, Welling said. The board intends to work level of expectation, perhaps In the 1960s and 1970s it beclosely with the State Education beginning at the elementary the norm for such accame Office in its efforts to develop level. to be included during the tivities Nabasic and Minimum competency guidelines programs. tional guidelines may not be for functional skills in the areas regular instructional day. Is it clear until after the 1984 elec- - of communication (reading, time to go back? Welling asked. JOIN THE TRAVEL AGENT Emergency Training Is Offered distri- district. writing, speaking, and listening), mathematics, and science (problem solving) may be required in elementary grades with expansion of the basic' competency being required in junior and middle schools. It may be that admittance to high school will be based on certain performance standards. be-ga- - . A,'. ?,' ' ,, tions, Welling said. County efforts include participation in a workshop held July 21 and 22 involving 12 district supervisors, 12 administrators, and 12 teachers. Welling said he FARMINGTON ON A UNIQUE CRUISING EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL- On The Luxurious An emergency medical training course What to do until the ambulance arrives, is being offered by the Davis County Health Department to interested groups of 10 or more. The course, which is four hours in length, consists of first aid hints for emergency situations. 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