Show 1 S 'S I i it t f Y M l' l h. h t f 2 3 t J I rt 40 w I Ic r c t v i l t 1 l I 1 y R t t i 30 fJ nor Ir xa 0 4 1 E n tab f N. N i J i 20 40 i t r G I 30 gg till h t 4 Vf t y f x CHARLES MURPHY sixth grade teacher at the Todd Elementary School In Roosevelt and B Beverly verly D D. D teacher assistant there In the fifth filth grade prepare a communications communications com earn game during a unique workshop at BYU this week Students from BYU took over the entire school while the teachers and administrators were away BYU students run Todd school for week Students from Brigham Young University took over over Todd Elementary School in western Uintah County last week It was not a demonstration not a riot and surely not even a vacation STUDENT teachers and their supervisors ran the entire school while the 36 regular teachers administrators and teacher aides attended a special week-long week workshop on the BYU campus As one of few programs in the United States which allows an entire school to change hands for a a week during the middle of the the school year the unique workshop was jointly sponsored by the Utah State Department of Education and foundation grants awarded to the BYU Indian Education Department Approximately half of the Todd Elementary Schoolchildren Schoolchildren School Schoolchildren children are Indians from the near near-by Ute Reservation reported Dr V V. Con Osborne of the BYU Indian Education Department The teachers and administrators were brought to the BYU campus especially during Indian Week to take advantage of the special speakers as well as some of the activities WHILE AT BYU the teachers and administrators were presented a wide variety of course work that gave them some of the latest concepts in elementary education tion as well as ideas involving Indian education The participants earned three hours' hours of college credit during the workshop Eight of the participants are teacher aides enrolled in the Ute Teacher Training Program operated by the tribe which has contracted BYU to teach college courses on the reservation reser valion in the afternoons Mornings are spent assisting the teachers in the elementary school and learning the teaching leaching profession while on the job Dr Osborn said Workshop participants were exposed to role theories in education latest trends in Indian education classroom management childrens children's literature Utah Indian history careers reading in elementary schools school community-school relations the Indian student movement art for elementary teachers drama teaching through role playing motivating Indian students communications skills latest media equipment current Indian affairs and legal implications implications implications im im- im- im of education WHILE ON campus they also heard addresses from Miss Indian Indian Indian In In- dian America Kristine Harvey a former BYU student and Lynn Engels information director for the BIA They also attended a special performance performa ee of the Generation and the BYU-Arizona BYU basketball game Meanwhile back at the school BYU students were learning the realities of being full fledged teachers for the week Under careful supervision supervision supervision super super- vision they taught the classes corrected the homework learned how rural elementary problems differ from those in urban areas and had a general education on about Indian culture on and near the reservation DIRECTING the unique program with Dr Osborne was Dr M M. Kay Campbell of the Elementary Education Department of the College of Education Local coordinators were John Childs of the Uintah School District Gerald Mitchell Mitchell Mitchell Mit Mit- chell school principal and George Campbell from the State Department of Education tion The BYU Indian Education Department sponsors only two such workshops per year while the College of Education sponsors some others which do donot donot donot not involve schools from an Indian culture Mr Childs commented that he be felt the school curriculum had gone ahead much better than predicted and that students didn't miss out on the pace of daily lessons Many of the student teachers fell in love with the students and the school according to reports and want to come back here next year to teach if there are any openings Jj |