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Show David P. Parkinwg "gTJ Moab Seminary Teacher Attends Provo Workshop Provo David P. Parkinson, Parkin-son, principal of the Moab LDS Seminary, attended an all-day curriculum specialists special-ists workshop Saturday on the campus of BYU. In at- ( tendance were four specialists special-ists from each seminary district dis-trict in Utah and Idaho together to-gether with the coordinator in each district. Areas of specialization in which training train-ing was given were AVA, methods and techniques, student stu-dent leadership, and cours? outlines. Mr. Parkinson's assignment as-signment was in methods and techniques. After becoming .specialists themselves, it is the responsibility respon-sibility of each man to train others in his district in his area of specialization. It is the goal of the Department Depart-ment of Seminaries and Institutes In-stitutes of Religion to have every seminary teacher in the LDS Church become involved in-volved in one area of specialization. spec-ialization. Pach group will then share resources with other groups in up-grading the entire curriculum offering. offer-ing. According to Ernest Eber-hard, Eber-hard, Jr., director of curriculum curric-ulum and in-service training, train-ing, the gospel will become an integral part in the lives of the youth of the LDS Church only when they can relate to it in a meaningful way. The program of specialists spec-ialists is an effort in this direction. Others in attendance at the workshop from the Eastern Eas-tern Utah District, with Stanley E. Best as coordinator, coordin-ator, with areas of their specialization spe-cialization were David J. Ridges, principal Dragerton Seminary,' stuCTent leadership leader-ship specialist; David Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, principal of the Eph-raim Eph-raim Seminary, course outlines out-lines specialist; and Wesley R. Law, principal of the Castle Dale Seminary, AVA specialist. |