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Show Warned Teacher of the Year According to Mr. Hansen, the students work at their own pace. "When the students are weak on certain keys, the program insists they practice those keys before moving on to new ones." Students at Syracuse Junior average 22 words per minute in Keyboarding 1, 40 words per minute in Keyboarding II and 76 words per minute in Keyboarding n. Hansen attributes the success of his program to enthusiastic parental support' and community in-' in-' volvement This recognition carried with it an IBM Personal System2 Model 25 computer system, an IBM dto-printer dto-printer and an assortment of software. cation lab and instructional program. pro-gram. "Effective teachers have always used learning tools from blackboards to visual aids to computers com-puters to communicate ideas and issues to their students," explained James E. Dezell, Jr., IBM vice president and jjeneral manager for IBM Educational Systems. By DONETA GATHERUM For one junior high school in Utah, the old adage, "practice makes perfect" applies. Boyd Hansen, computer and keyboarding teacher at Syracuse Junior High School, requires that his seventh graders learn computer keyboarding and has selected numerous nu-merous software packages that ensure en-sure that this requirement is met Hansen's efforts have won him recognition as Utah Teacher of the Year in competition sponsored by IBM and "Classroom Computer Learning" magazine. Mr. Hansen, a veteran educator with 25 years of experience, holds a degree in math and education from ' Weber State College. After j teaching math at Central Davis Junior Ju-nior High for 22 years- he became interested in computers and the many ways they could be used in classroom instruction. He became qualified in this new field through additional college courses and through practice and experimentation. experimenta-tion. When Syracuse Junior High opened three years ago, Mr. Hansen moved to the new school to establish estab-lish an effective computer edu- ii t ntrrrtiasaJL &xi,mimmml mm I.S Six Special Education teachers, front, (left) Betty Spencer,' Irene Jones; back, Judy Forman, Connie May, Beverly Welch ; and Pat Rawlings, have completed three years of training. The training was offered by the State Office of Education. The ob-' , jective was to give advanced training to teachers to further enhance their teaching skills so they can assist other teachers with their teaching needs. All teachers are certified regular elementary or secondary teachers and have cross trained in , special education. , |