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Show School board reviews facilities designed to enrich program Members of Nebo District Board of Education and the superintendent made an inspection inspec-tion tour of the Instructional Materials Center at the Salem School Tuesday of last week, in a specially called public session. ses-sion. Philip Argyle, director of the center, demonstrated the use of several pieces of equipment equip-ment designed to give the child a better educational program. Materials center The new instructional materials mater-ials center at Salem, only one in the state, is on the top floor of the Salem elementary school, it being the only building in the district with four empty rooms. The rooms have been remod- esting areas of the center, is that containing special kits, study guides and models. If a teacher is teaching about a specific country in social studies, stu-dies, he may obtain an instruction instruc-tion kit. This kit will contain film strips and recordings of the coutry, study prints, hand crafted items from the country, articles of clothing, money, samples of things produced by the country, and information about the culture. Models available include plastic, plas-tic, replicas of the human heart, a tooth, the human brain, etc. The director is hoping to obtain ob-tain literature on different lev-I lev-I (continued on page four) eled and equipped with federal, state and local funds with a total of $52,000 spent todate. One large room is equipped as a workroom .where teachers may make transparencies of charts or other instructional materials for use with overhead stalled so slides can be made, and there is also a "trans-lifter" which will reproduce colored col-ored pictures from magazines or books on an acetate film. All types of graphic art can be done in the area. Various types of printing and copying machines will make it possible to reproduce the high school newspapers, district bulletins, bul-letins, and other materials at Uie center. Teacher library In the libray room, there is a "professional" library for teacher use, with - the latest publications to aid teachers in work or special problems. There is also a section for summer sum-mer school books of the district, dis-trict, one for adult education, and one containing books which teachers may use in advanced ad-vanced schooling. One use of the most inter- School board reviews facilities I tion of effort from one school to another. Now it will be possible for all schools to draw from this instructional material. Other business The superintendent outlined the immediate need of approximately approx-imately $470,000 to finish and equip the two new high schools at the meeting. He stated that in order to memain qualified for additional state building aid the district must remain bonded to, at least, 95 of the bonding limit set by law. Consequently the board is faced fa-ced with the alternative of holding another bond election for further bonding or one of using only current funds and taking an additional year to furnish and equip the two new high schools. A motion was made by Raymond C. Johnson, seconded by Leo A. Crandall, that the board continue its study of a possible bonding program at its next regular meeting on Monday, September 12, 1966. Motion carried on a unanimous vote. (continued from page one) . els to go along with the study kits. Supplementing this program pro-gram is an ample picture library. li-brary. A special textbook room is equipped with sample textbooks text-books from every company which had books on the adopted adop-ted state list. The companies furnished complimentary copies for the library Film available The audio-visual department has 3000 film strips, a number which they hope to double by Christmas, as well as 3000 transpariencies, 315 films of 16 mm size, and a large supply of 8 mm films. The center al-sa al-sa has the new "single concept" con-cept" 8 mm films which are shown, with out sound on a projector resembling a television televis-ion set. The radio and recording equipment, when complete, will be the equivalent of a small radio station. The record , library li-brary has 500 recordings out on order right now, and the tapes ae being increased rapidly. rap-idly. Delivery An efficient card file and check-out system has been installed in-stalled whereby teachers may telephone orders to a clerk at the center. A government surplus sur-plus delivery panel truck has been obtained to make twice a week deliveries to all schools in the district. Until now, the classroom enrichment en-richment program has been up to the individual schools and dependent upon the iniative of the teachers and principals. It was impossible for a single school to have a complete library li-brary of instructional materials and often there was a duplica- |