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Show r- - . '"S. ' . --. : ' N 1 -! lJ fefijii Hi ... . kiX... ....- .. . . ' J ' fining educators to be more effective teachers :-d to coordinate the efforts of teacher aides is the Tjpose of a project now in operation at Utah State Siiversity. Taking advantage of the program, the ;st of its kind, from Grand County School District loob Trainees Taking Pari in Utah State jC f' lot Course in Special Education LOGAN Special educa-: educa-: should not be restricted iard to control children or te exceptionally bright, innovators of a unique :iing project at Utah m State University believe. Teachers and teacher aid-es aid-es from Grand', , Duchesne, and Uintah Counties are working with pupils and teachers at Bowen Laboratory Labora-tory School; the teacher training school at Utah State University, to learn how to give each child in the classroom class-room a "special education." The pilot project being conducted tins year at USU is funded federally by the Education Professions Development De-velopment Act. Project director dir-ector is Elizabeth Guest, formerly in the department of Special Education for the Los Angeles County Schools. The teacher aide group is supplemented by university personnel from the departments depart-ments of special education, elementary education and speech pathology and aud-iology. aud-iology. USU professors Lionel Lio-nel Brady, Edith Shaw ' and Jay Jensen coordinate the departments with the project pro-ject and involve their complete com-plete staffs in it. Each school morning nine teams consisting of a laboratory lab-oratory school teacher and aide, certified teacher and two aides from the outlying district are responsible for management of the learning environment for a group of boys and girls at Bowen School. Children having a variety of learning abilities are in the same room. are : seated, teachers Doris Lyman, Larry Stub'os dPat Perez. Standing, aides Kathy Brown, Janie' Walker Trudy Gardner, Jean Tarro and Louise" ' West. Becky Stabbs was not present for photo. -' In the afternoon, professional profes-sional staff members from the USU departments work with the project participants in seminars. Not only, is the project designed to re-train teachers now in the field to more fully meet the needs of all children, but to help teacher aides gain an understanding under-standing of the pupil-teacher learning situation in which they are to assist and to promote the use of the team effort to facilitate learning ' While at USU for half of the public school year, the participants may live in university housing or find off-campus accommodations. The federal grant provides a salary for each. Participants experiment with various teaching . methods meth-ods during the 18 weeks if intense training then return to their respective school districts to incorporate the techniques. They will be. teaching regular classes and handicapped students. One stipulation of the federal fed-eral grant is that the teachers teach-ers and aides be committed to return to the school district dis-trict from which they were sent. . Those sent by .Grand County. Coun-ty. School District include' teachers Pat. Perez, Larry Stubbs and Doris Lyman,, and aides Janio Walker, Kathey Brown, Jean . Tarro, Louise West, : Becky Stubbs and ,Trudy Gardner. |
