Show V Vast New Mew Area i in District Ed Program I TM r rote Ie t the guidance d tic de- I Is to help every child I to lo reach hU his ability potential This is a large order and a 0 alarp large larae responsibility ty placed upon the personnel of guidance in the schools of today TO reach the objective each counselor and each fach department r ment head must be qualified and willing to und undertake under take the tha many tasks required to according to Christian E. E the CoU College ie Blue 11 Book ok Y e. e New York marshall all alt educational resource re re- re- re source and make them available available ble Ne to the students To marshal the educational resources res re reo re- re s sources es the guidance departments depart ments must accumulate edl ca and psychological test re- re cultural and other environ environ- mental Influences influenCE's of the school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children and then present and Interpret in In- interpret them In such a way that tM the children Involved their parents parents par par- cuts and their teachers might understand The guidance personnel l must mustIO Riso IO be prepared eQ to pr present to tho Iho children statistical preparatory preparatory preparatory tory and arid other Information About a of vocational Through this thia department too are fUe found data needed In education education tion lion to determine Instructional values ability trends an and t curriculum curt curri culum revisions Recognizing the value and hd need of guidance cervices services the Grand Grand' County School District this year organized such a n department department de do- with C. C Robert Sund Sund- wall as its director-counselor director and Lillian McCormick as counselor on OH a 0 pert part time thue basis In establish establish- n the department according to Helen M. M Knight superintendent dent the local district began participating in the National P Defense tenso Education Act To qualify in this thia program a number of standards standard had to be bo s set t Including counselor- counselor d student t ratios qualification of I counselors testing program and anti others The flie Grand Crand County District District Dis Dis- has met all aU of Qt these requirements requirements require require- ments going beyond the n mini mini- ni- ni Continued on Pay 8 GUIDANCE Continued from Pago Page One mum In several areas A report of the guidance program program program pro pro- gram and its Us effects so far this year was presented to the High School Teachers Parent Association Association at their monthly meeting on February 17 by Mr At that time Mr gave a short review of the National National Na Na- Defense Education Act pointing out that It Is a year four program set up In 1958 by Congress Con Con- gross gress at a means of improving educational facilities facUlties to the youth of the country The action by y Congress was the result of a consIderable considerable con con- amount of discussion about education In the United States the discussion stimulated ted by Russia's DiscussIons Discussions Discussions Dis Dis- In Congress first were to develop needed scientists and that to do this might be to desIgnate designate designate des des- ignate and they provide needed educational opportunities to the called so-called gifted children As the finally evolved howeler however however how how- ever eler it Included the larger objective objective objective ob ob- of determining abilities of nil all school children and helping each to attain his potentialities The Includes various types of education help of which guidance guidance guid guid- ance once Is one The guidance program for this year In Grand county Includes a testing program primarily to provide certain scores on children children child chUd- ren which will begin determining ing abilities and achievement of the children serve as a basis for determining school trends and norms both as to pupil progress and ability and to provide data which might he t to both oth teacher and pupil In salving solving pres present press press' tnt eat problems either emotional or educational Children this year were tested I In tn the first grade with a reading and end numbers readiness test Scores from this test provide a knowledge of what might be anticipated anticipated an an- from Crom the child as he enters school and also is the In Initial initial In- In of the series of tests the child chUd will take throughout school to Indicate both his achievement progress and his abilities I Actual achievement testing begins begins be be- gins In the third grade and from then on each childs child's achievement achievement achievement achieve achieve- ment will be measured on an every every every ev ev- ery other year the tests to be given In the fifth seventh ninth and eleventh grades Mental maturity tests designed design design- ed d to obtain scholastic ability scores are given in the fourth and seventh grades Emphasis In the testing program program pro pro- gram occurs in the ninth grade These students are given three tests One Is for achievement one Is for Cor occupational interest and one for occupational abilities s The reason for Cor this according to Mr Is that psychometric etric tests with high validity have not yet been constructed for determining vocational or multi factor abilities for students below the ninth grade The final step In the testing program Is In the eleventh grade where an achievement test Is IsIs isis isis Is given While considerable time is given giVen en cn to the testing program the tha scores 1 obtained are but a portion of the criteria needed for proper prop proper r rEValuation evaluation of pupils or for proper proper propel pro pro- per pel counseling fact consider consider- consideration consideration to the test scores is given h only in regards to the particular areas they are designed to mesS meas- meas ure The Interview at which time timet t the he counselor and pupil discuss n a variety of areas both emotional emotion emotion- al aI cultural and so on is as im important important im- im i If not of the most importance im im- importance im I in helping a student An Important phase of this years year's guidance program has been through the Interest and help of guidance committees Mr Me said Meeting on a volunteer volunteer vol vol- basis a group of teacher teachers teach teach- er ers from each of the three schools in Moab have be been n meeting at in intervals intervals intervals in- in primarily for Cor the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of devising local objectives of tf guidance Through these teachers teachers' teachers teachers teachers' teach teach- ers' ers objectives pertinent to the local schools and local area can be included In the guidance program program pro pro- gram making is much more worth while to the pupils of the three Moab schools Mr Sund Sund- wall said These guidance committees will also aso be asked to evaluate the guidance services near the end endor of or the school year for the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of making recommendations toward next years year's program |