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Show Career rnoducils help svuderavG choose jobs "i ' " i - t 7T" -rvi-.. T s f t 1' .Sin. ''"w-,.."'"' . . ";:-"'; :", SAWING VIGOROUSLY to complete a metalurgist's career modual is Vernal Junior High seventh grader Zade Maxfield. A -7 i r 7 j 7 ij c ' '- . I 7 - 7-" I t -J ' 1 7 x7'y 7 ' -" f7--i- 4 ; j 7;7V A' 1 ,'V ?"vvC s', ; 71 JOSEPH CALDER shows Vernl 'Junior Hign student how to m'r '"light a butane torch to be used TocargeT-m'o'du'atbrojkt.!1: .'3f Seventh graders in the Uintah School District have the opportunity for "hands-on" experience with 35 different dif-ferent careers in an industrial art class at West and Vernal Junior High Schools. Shop teachers at the two schools, Joseph Calder, Morlin Buchanan and Raldon Dansie combined efforts to build career moduals which teach students by having them perform a task in different occupations. Each modual is self-contained and equipped with a step-by-step instruction instruc-tion booklet and cassette player. Students can work on projects such as changing a brake shoe, changing the manifold on a small engine, laying tile, or making jewelry. All seventh grade students at Vernal Junior High are required to take the industrial in-dustrial art class and complete two moduals a week to pass the class. "The careers program is to give students an idea of what people in different dif-ferent occupations do," Philip Ellis, assistant superintendent, said. According to Ellis, student response to the career moduals has been excellent. "I really like working on the moduals," said seventh grader, Richard Horrocks as he laid tile in one of the moduals. "Student reaction has been super," Rolden Dansie, industrial art teacher at Vernal Junior High, said. "The minute they enter the door, the students are working on them." According to Dansie the moduals were built by the shop teachers this summer after studying several similar programs in other suchools. The teachers built 70 moduals; 35 for the Vernal Junior High School and 35 for West Junior High. ine moauai explains 10 me siuaeni what is expected of them in industry and what they can expect in the way of pay, working conditions, and job opportunity oppor-tunity for the future, Dansie said. Dansie added that students are expected ex-pected "to find out what they like and dislike from the career moduals." Moduals are divided into four catagories: transportation, communications, com-munications, manufacturing and construction. con-struction. By students reaction to each catagory, they can-determine if they like to work with people, things or data. Dansie invites members of the community com-munity to tour the moduals and offer suggestions. |