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Show Moab Teachers Involved In Vocational Ed. Meet More I'h.iii a thousand Utah vocaflionaill teachers and aduiiir'Mfral.oi-M are af-1' af-1' nding the Stale Hoard of Education Con I'erence ul Utah Stale University in Logan, this week. Amoeg the group arc Rill iMoador, Glen Riche-son, Riche-son, Douglas Rradlcy, Ann Fincher, Calvin Hansen and Dean Hammer from Moab. The theme of this yeal's conference centers around "Humanizing Education through Creativity." Many years ago education educa-tion involved getting youngsters to recite in- formation put before them iii i vocational education this was accomplished by 'teaching a young person how to complete a particular particul-ar task in a particular way. Rut in the last few years the tables have turned. In addition to learning how ito complete tasks. . . students stu-dents are encouraged to be creative in their approach to new projects. Usually this pursuit of creativity requires greater individual at lenl.ion be ;i yen Id a ,':! u-denf. u-denf. This individualization individualiza-tion of attention and programs pro-grams is often refeircd to as "humanizing" education. educa-tion. There are several ways to encourage individual creativity in .students. If fine method doesn't work, teachers try another. The attempt is to Long out the best erealive qualities tin each student. This year's vocational education ed-ucation conference in Logan Lo-gan will relate these teaching tea-ching methods to the various var-ious vocational education subjects now br ing taught, in Utah's junior and senior sen-ior high schools. Several experts in fostering foster-ing creativity are included includ-ed on the conference program. |