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Show i 1 T r C H if 1 T ; -V ' rr Np !t ... - - - ::.i.'' F.'.otv.er.tary School IV. nd-v;' nd-v;' p.::i"o Witr.r.ier ar.d nr. tv.lv rs of h trtf work;:-. hard this w eek ,r."o'e:e program texts for the new ,;.t.:::;u.v.:s Improvement Program to Iv ottered in grades two through six at th. school. Texts are dismantled and tho:i arranged so that students can complete thorn at their own speed. -Remodeling, Materials Preparation (Being Finished for School Program V:i;rs i"j school of-ire of-ire working hard ;ik complete re- ' Southeast KI-t: KI-t: :rr School. The re- is tins done to r:ii i:t the r.-.w co:i-t::. co:i-t::. improvement Frogs Fro-gs w-ich will to ir.sti-(ri ir.sti-(ri i: the school th:s r f:i kc Jells ir.eluJ-:j ir.eluJ-:j rt-r:val of walls in r::s ar.J the utiliia-::" utiliia-::" the hall area to : c-e large eduea-: eduea-: i-ii. About 300 stu-I stu-I jb :- jraies 2 through I tL :e i::ecte j with tho m cctittuous educa-I educa-I e :;:r::ului which will i in the area. j.vrii-s to Dwain S. jfi:. principal at SE. A ".cram will f.icili-t: f.icili-t: :r:cre5;ive learning: V u; students a: leye:s j: :!:'; thsv can achieve. I: stulent will be al-Y-i .: T.rrk en his own N to achieve at his 1 rate et speed. Th; tr. will alio re;uirJ c -:e student is able to 1 T erections and work direct teacher sj-r"-; :r.. If, however, a shows evidence unable to cope :;- a situation of this ;-. :e will be placed in - - - '" ; r. t i o r. a 1 classroom --'-'2 which will en-5 en-5 to work under "treated programs of-p of-p traditionally. Mr. Wi:v.:ver indicated that the area will feature u:: its of educational materials ma-terials and the si:e will enable students who are achiei:-.c at different levels lev-els in different areas of work to progress from one area to another freely. free-ly. This program tentatively tentativ-ely started with math classes last year. There will also be reference matt-rials available for students stu-dents to use which can be util.cc.i without their having hav-ing to go to the school library. li-brary. "All the material will be St.ll directing and se.f scoring u; to a point," Mr. Wimrr.tr Said. Tests, which will determine whether a student is ready to progress pro-gress to another level, will still be administered by teachers and answers will r.-t be available to th student. This availability of answers to questions, will enable the student to develop a thinking process of teaching himself and al-o enable en-able him to have more individualized in-dividualized instruction by one of the approximate fifteen teachers woo will be working in the area. This instruction will not be forced upon the student who is progressing well bv himself but will be available av-ailable to any student who encounters difficulties difficul-ties with the program. The ?UJ SA J bA i sh" I art- ' i i 'i 1 i1 " V"--s who are involved in th- Continuous Im-f:vnt Im-f:vnt Program at Southeast Elementary will receive training at specified times ".?"ut the day but will work at their own speed ;':''ut direct t.acher supervision except when y fms develop. Tests will be given next week to '--tine which level of skill best suits each child. instruction, he added, will not necessarily always DC done by the same teachev to whom he is assigned, which will enable the student stu-dent to reach out and work with all teaching personalities. The case of movement from one instructional level le-vel to another will also free the student from categorized ca-tegorized placement in the level on which he achieves, achiev-es, according to Mr. Wim-mor. Wim-mor. The area will also handle more students with greater ease and eliminate elimin-ate crowding from one type of iitruction unit to another. Five skill areas will be taught under the program this year. These are math, word attack, vocabulary, comprehension and reading. read-ing. Other skills such as science. social studies, physical education and health will be taught in conventional classroom arrangements each afternoon. after-noon. Next week will serve as testing week for students who will be involved in the program. Monday will see testing and orientation orienta-tion for third grade students, stu-dents, Tuesday for fourth grade, Wednesday for fifth grade and Thursday for sixth grade. On Friday all groups will meet in the continuous improvement improve-ment room for additional instruction. Farents wno will have children involved involv-ed in this program are invited in-vited to attend the orientation orien-tation programs next week to familiarize themselves with the programs which will be studied by their children. |