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Show Mew education program in Mefco District made possible by allocation of federal government funds Several teachers, principals and administrators of Nebo school district involved in the new educational prog rams, made possible by funds from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed by the federal government in 1965, met in a recent 4-day work shop. In attendance also were consultants from BYU, USU, and Weber College to assist in planning the programs. James Dunn, administrative assistant to Supt. Russell N. Stansfield and funds director, was in charge. Purposes of the programs are to assist children to levels of achievement paralleling their ability; also to provide experiences exper-iences to develop knowledge and appreciation for community, commun-ity, state and nation and to provide assistance for classroom class-room teachers. The programs are being developed in teaching specialists, remedial, guidance, and tutoring areas. Where students are in need of special help, the specialists will work with the class room teacher, to help solve the learning learn-ing problem of the student and alleviate a possible remedial situation. j Under the new set-up, two remedial specialists are working work-ing at the junior high schools in Payson and Springville. The special reading program will provide teaching of reading read-ing to pupils having difficulty and will be provided him according ac-cording to his need. In the guidance area, a psychiatric psy-chiatric social worker will work with students, teachers and parents to help the involved in-volved parties understand and modify attitudes that may hinder a child's progress in school. He will assist teachers in helping students in the classroom and help establish a closer parent-teacher school relationship. re-lationship. A math teacher will spend a half day at Payson and Springville Junior High Schools with students who need help in this area, meeting them in small groups or individually. Under the new program, an Education Materials Center is being established at the Salem school which provides a more varied, suitable and accessible supply of instructional material mater-ial to teachers and pupils. A director co-ordinates facets of this program. In addition to the new approaches ap-proaches in education, several schools in Nebo are working on ways to aid learning experiences exper-iences of children, according to the funds director. Meetings will be held in June to evaluate the program and recommendations will be made at this time, it is stated. |
