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Show Page A6 Thursday, May 13, 2004 Times Newspaper ak Canyon Jr. Mi gh r If " ' ' ' -T-nrl '..1- i""8' 1 C , 7 V :' V '( ::;,' I"' I A L Students from Oak Canyon Jr. Williams, and Janessa Smith. High: Jared Mulrhead, Ayelen Tapla, Gabrlela Ferrelra, Levi " ' ' tit II b X l Students from Oak Canyon Jr. High are: Jared Mulrhead, Stephanie Sorensen, Lacey Nay, Stephanie Brown, Emilia Williams, and Megan Smith. Spanish students at Oak Canyon Junior High have done well at two competitions BYU held its annual Spanish Language Fair on Thursday, April 15th. The Junior High Sweepstakes award was won by Oak Canyon Jr. High. There were 18 superior ratings in the "Humorous Stories" category cat-egory and 12 superior ratings in the "Impromptu Conversation" event. In poetry, Caitlin Sargent, Kyoshi Inzunza, Susannah Lyman, Cristina Craven, Steven Edwards and Xochilt Arias received superior ratings. In the "Show and Tell" presentations Angie Gomez, Lucy Bedolla, Ayelen Tapia, Kevin Schade, Kimmie and Kristi Lender received superior ratings. rat-ings. Four other students received a superior rating rat-ing in the prepared talks: Angelica Cano, Kevin Padilla, Kala Lee and Ayelen Tapia. These students also took superior supe-rior ratings on the Level 2 skit and the Level 34 skit. Also the 9th graders took first place in the language bowl competition and Mr. Brian Jolley's 7th grade immersion team won 2nd place. John Sargeant, an eighth grade student at Oak Canyon said, "I thought it was really fun to see all the hundreds of foreign language students stu-dents from this state. It was an awesome cultural experience." Sarah Isaacson, a ninth grade student, said, "I loved it! It was kind of a reality check for me to see if I was speaking correctly and applying myself." Congratulations to all the students who worked so hard for this accomplishments! accom-plishments! AATSP (the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portugese) held its annual annu-al national Spanish competition com-petition in March. Oak Canyon has competed for the last 4 years and has taken the majority of the first place winnings each year. This year was no exception. In the level I regular category, first place went to Levi Williams, second place went to Kristy Mathisen and third place went to Jeff Haderlie. In the level I outside experience experi-ence category, first place went to Gabirela Ferreira and second place to Alyssa Chischillie. In level II outside experience category, cate-gory, Carla Choque took second place. The level III outside experience category had many winners win-ners as well: Jenessa Smith took first place, Nathan Merkely second, and Sean Aaron placed tnird. Ayelen Tapia placed first in the level III bilingual category. The winners in the level IV outside experience category were: Jared Muirhead first, Lacey Nay second, and Allison Smith third place. Kevin Padilla won first place in the level IV bilingual category, Kyoshi Inzunza took second, and Cendy Bedolla placed third. Congratulations are due to these students for their many hours of preparation and hard work, and to their Spanish teachers well! as Three Orem High students rank nationally in Le Grad Concours Soren Siebach, Andrea Peacock and Peter Wright have ranked nationally in the 69th annual event, according to Sidney L. Teitelbaum, National Director of Le Grand Concours. Le Grand Concours is a national competition com-petition sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French. Students were evaluated for their written, oral and lis tening comprehension skills in French. Over 97,600 students stu-dents in all 50 states competed com-peted in - the 2004 event. Soren Siebach, Andrea Peacock and Peter Wright are students of Charlotte Touati and they are all students stu-dents in her Advanced Placement French Literature class. These students stu-dents passed the AP French language Exams as juniors. Charlotte Touati says that it has been an honor and a pleasure to teach' students of this quality. Lisa Narug, Assistant Director of Le Grand Concours indicated: "These students are a source of great pride to American Education and indicative of the high level of achievement achieve-ment of American schools in imparting the French language lan-guage and culture." Trust Lands Tutorial program May secondary schools offer some form of tutorial help. Mountain View High School implements the Trust Lands Tutorial program, a project designed to assist students in the core subjects. This program employs specialized tutors up to forty hours a week to instruct, teach, and encourage students primarily in math and English, and other subjects as far as time and resources permit. Mountain View also employs and ESL tutor as a resource to non-native students who struggle in the core subjects. The Trust Lands Tutor program is in its third year at Mountain View High School. Experienced tutors in mathematics, English and ESL continue their assistance by creating a lower teacher-to-student ratio within the basic English and math classes. The ESL tutor has helped reach some of our minority population students who struggle in these academics areas. Tutors are placed in nine English classes taught by five separate sepa-rate teachers, eight mathematics classes taught by four separate teachers, and ten ESL classes taught by two separate teacher. Tutor work directly with over 100 students. When possible, each tutor is assigned to two classes per period. This optimizes their time with students during individual assignment time, rather than during the teacher's instruction time. In addition to spending time in various classrooms, these tutors also help students in two Study Skill classes. Assignments and homework for English and math classes are tracked specifically in these classes. Extra class time is used for other school work. Students are given individual attention to help them understand and complete then-assignments. then-assignments. Lessons on test taking strategies, strate-gies, organizational skills, and grammar are incorporated in the tutoring. The Trust Lands tutoring program is producing great results, students GPA was higher this year for the students enrolled in the study Skills classes than last year's GPA in Epglish and Mathematics classes without study skills. Last year the compos ite English GPA was 1.4. This year it is 2.5, a difference of 1.1 Last year the composite compos-ite GPA for Mathematics was 1.3 and this year it is 2.3, and increase of 1.0 of students stu-dents who had tutors in their classes, 67 raised their composite GPA this year over last year. Results further indicate that the Study Skills class was more effective due to, further fur-ther assistance. The composite GPA for the students in the Study Skills class was .43 higher in English and .31 higher in Mathematics than the GPA of those students stu-dents who only worked with the tutors in their regular classes. Of those students in the Study Skills class, 73 of the students improved their composite GPA for either English or mathematics from last year, and 71 of the students increase their GPA in both subjects. Mountain View's Trust Land Tutorial program compliments the school's improvementstrategic improve-mentstrategic plan as outlined in the 2002-03 2002-03 accreditation report. The program focuses focus-es on the desired result for students learning learn-ing (DRSL) in the areas of communications, value system and expanding and integrate. Mountain View is committed to assisting all students in expressing themselves clearly clear-ly in their writing, appreciating hard work, and enhancing their ability to learn more through self-confidence. Additionally, these classes will be critical as students who do not pass UBSCT are identified. We will have a built-in system of help for these students stu-dents to aid them in passing the high stakes test. Mountain View's action plan states that students will write well in all subjects. IT establishes a student mentoringadvocate program. It establishes a student skills class that teaches test-taking strategies and provides redemption. The Trust Lands Tutorial program is providing the means to accomplish these objectives. Mountain View's administration, faculty, Trust Land committee, and student are committed to a celebrating the tutorial learning curve and reaching higher academic goals. UVSC student wins national competition Brandon Rigby, an automotive auto-motive technology student at Utah Valley State College, won the Congress-Budestag Congress-Budestag Student Exchange Program For Young Professionals, a one-year one-year scholarship sponsored by the German Bundestag and the U.S. Congress. The scholarship pays all expense for Rigby to travel to Germany, two months of language school, four months of automotive technology tech-nology school and an internship intern-ship at one of Germany's big four car makers. "I saw the poster about the program, applied, inter viewed and was selected," said Rigby. "I am excited about this great opportunity." opportuni-ty." The program is managed by Carl Duisburg Society International- the organization organiza-tion of the US government helps US students to find internships and other work exchanges in Germany. After his six months of training, Rigby hopes to complete a six-month internship with Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz of Volkswagen. Professor Ruediger Lehnardt of the UVSC German Department helps Publicize these programs at UVSC. "There are countless work and study opportunities opportuni-ties in Germany," said Lehnardt, "It is a great opportunity for our students stu-dents to obtain a truly global glob-al education." Retirement ' ; s - .i 't :'.V. 1- II Judy Watson retires from Alpine District Judy Watson is retiring after fifteen years of dedicated dedi-cated service with Alpine School District. There will be an open house Thursday, May 13, 2004 from 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Orem Elementary Media Center, 450 West 400 South in Orem. 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