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Show Board honors Mueller Park Junior High English teacher band completed his Ph.D. at Yale, she taught for five years at a local. Connecticut junior high. Distressed by national statistics showing most students spend only three percent of their classtime writing, she has her students write as much as possible. "I try to correlate cor-relate reading with writing, assign books like The Red Badge of Courage and then have the students write something expressing their personal views oh the subject Then I teach them how to do research and build on it, move along to expository ex-pository and analytic writing such as essays." A firm believer that writing "is a craft that can be learned," though not everyone can reach the same level, she urges her students to enter any and all writing contests. "During the Law Day contest a few years ago, my students took three of the five prizes and in any year they entered, they never won fewer than two," she says with justifiable pride. Secondary language arts supervisor super-visor Dr. Don Lochhead says of her: "May Lou's students learn to write so well because she knows the writing process inside-out. She is always looking for new methods to teach and willingly shares what she has learned through giving workshops." "I have fun every day in the classroom," she reports, "because I learn while I teach. ' ' Tuesday evening the Board of Education honored Mary Lou Bean, an English teacher who believes everyone can be taught to write because "everyone has something to say." Currently in her 1 1th year with the district Mary Lou teaches regular English and ninth grade honors English at Mueller Park Ju-njor Ju-njor High. This week she begins a new class: autonomous learning for seventh graders. Classes for the autonomous learner are designed to meet the diversified di-versified needs of gifted and talented tal-ented students. The student in these classes develops and incorporates his own knowledge and skills, 1 earns independently and applies this knowledge to the entire scope of his learner experience and to his life. An autonomous learner solves problems and develops new ideas on his own with minimal outside help in a variety of areas. These classes are also taught at Layton High, Central Davis Junior and will take place at North Davis Junior as well as at Mueller Park-Pert Park-Pert and perspicacious, Mary Lou brings energy, enthusiasm and varied experience to her teaching. Though she grew up in Woods Cross and graduated from the University Uni-versity of Utah, she spent two years in Karachi, Pakistan, where she taught third grade at the international interna-tional school. Then while her hus- |