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Show 2B THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, May 29, 1986 . Students Strum After School SANDY. On Friday afternoons the sound of guitars strumming, teach the beginning students, she says. The guitar classes begin after heard at Sprucewood elementary. It is the sound of learning. the Christmas holidays. By then students have gotten settled into their school work and can usually handle something else, she explains. There is no charge for the lessons. ' Requirements include providing a guitar, paying for the folder which holds the music and commitment. Each student must fill out a practice sheet and turn it in each week, even if no practicing was done. She asks the students to practice 30 minutes a day for a least five days during the week. At the beginning of the class she begins with nearly. 60 students. But as time progresses the class shrinks to about 30. She says as time goes along the ones who are really interested are the ones who stick with it. Near the end of the school year, . sometimes not in unison, can be Third grade teacher Pam Purvis has been listening to student renditions of "Billy Boy" and other old favorites for years. She began teaching students guitar after school on Fridays six years ago.- Miss Purvis explains that she plays guitar and thought she would like to share her interest in music with the children at her school. Usually her beginning class, held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., consists of third graders. Occasionally younger students are allowed in if they have a particular interest in guitar. The advanced class, those who had taken in the previous year, meet from 4:30 to 5:30. They also help the guitar students give a program for the second graders. Parents are invited also. Miss Purvis adds that the continuing success of the class should be credited to a volunteer mother of one of her first students. Every Friday during lunch she has come into the school and tuned the 0 guitars for six years. "Without her I couldn't have done it. There's no way I could have tuned that many guitars, " Miss Purvis states. Whether the guitar classes will be offered next year is in doubt. Miss Purvis is being transferred to Lone Peak elementary next fall. But she hopes another teacher will pick up where she leaves off. There are many second graders who hope the same thing. The guitar toting students have become a traditional sight during Friday morning arrivals at Sprucewood elementary. 30-6- r,f "' V - 4 ...:.-- , . '" fj 7 V . Sprucewood Umon- and Androw Anderson studonts Stophon tary Ovard sing along with tho music during after STRUMMING ALONG . school goltor '' ' Key PTA Issues Discussed At VACATION 4 advanced and beginning students in the after school course. She is assisted by student teachers from the fourth and fifth grade ranks. HELPING OUT . . . Sprucewood guitar instructor Pam Purvis helps students Deanna Lloyd and Amy Larson through a difficult part. Purvis teaches both Fair Ran Itself, Teacher Says ! .; ! I ! ; : WEST JORDAN. More than 400 sixth graders at West Jordan Middle School donned "native" riress and spouted memorized facts as they manned booths displaying artifacts from their chosen country of spent Friday morning assembling booths and hanging the displays that they had been working on since Christmas. By lunchtime, according to Newey, he knew he had lost con-- : trol. From then on until the end of school, "the fair ran itself." A visual and educational success, were treated to all the free information on at least 69 coun- - "origin". The event was the sixth grade world's fair. Under the direction of teacher Robert Newey, the students fair-goe- student-create- d - cout-nrie- s, PYRAMIDS . . . Egypt was among the countries represented World Fair conducted at West Jordan middle school last week. at With Purchase SPORTS, MOVIES, NEWS. ENTERTAINMENT. SPANISH CHANNELS, PLUS 21 NEW CHANNELS PLANNED IN THE HEAR FUTURE. SYSTEM 1ncludes: 1 10 FOOT DISH DELUXE RECEIVER 964-600- 0 1 The Dcadbolt Connection r education. Lynne Partridge, state PTA in- tern, said that in the year 2000 the jobs available will be jobs we have not even identified today. She stressed the importance of preparing both young men and women for these future jobs and stressed that 95 percent of the people on welfare rolls today are young women with young children. Administrators also reported that it is the goal of the district to make sure that students are not detained after school on the elementary level without parents being advised of that detainment. The administrators also said that they are striving to achieve that goal in the middle schools and high schools. 0 ! 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Both kids and teachers thought it was just great!" outlined requirements of core curriculum which will be affecting today's students., He said that the "pricipals have gone through the state core curriculum and also the goals of mastery learning and outcome-base- d education and have set up curriculum in Jordan district schools to meet the new re- FOR SENIOR CITIZENS Clinical Audiology - Hearing Aids & Accessories Offices At Alta View Hospital 9690 South 1300 East, Suito 200 Sandy, Utah 84070 (801)572-004- 1 PERFECT THE PLACE quirements." He explained that mastery learneducation or ing and outcome-base- d OBE operates on the principle of testing to see what a student knows, then teaching him what he does not know and retesting to see if he has mastered the concepts and skills. Dr. Owen said that "the Jordan school district GEMS program which is used in all schools operates that way and said that the educators LOW NOISE AMP 795 SYSTEM or $9900 11 PER AO APR MONTH V. 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There are children on both national PTA's Reflection's contest ends of the spectrum from genius to which will be conducted during the handicapped. Some will never achieve learning all concepts that school year. It was announced by acting region could be offered. He assured PTA director Peggy Frisby as she personnel that the GEMS program is welcomed PTA members and ad- a goal based curriculum model. He also outlined the different ministrators to Region Six spring leadership last week. Gathered at types of programs offered to high the meeting were the Region 6 coun- school students. They included colcil officers, administrators of Jor- lege prep and vocational and dan District and presidents and technological and high interest. He boards from all schools in the discussed what occupations are district. They met at Albion middle predicted to be in demand in the 1990's and discussed preparations in school to discuss critical issues facthe district to meet these needs. ing education this year. He outlined the current discipline Pat Hales, leadership vice president for state PTA, outlined the mor- models used in the various district ning's agenda which included schools. discussions on career ladder, core During the. afternoon, the group curriculum, mastery learning, viewed a film about equity and tries of the world plus 26 countries that could possibly outcome-baseever be wanted. education, discipline and equity. , Each student had done extensive ; research on his chosen country. Fred Worlton, principal at Alta Reports in excess of 100 pages were outlined the career ladder prohigh, turned in by some students, said as it operates in Jordan Newey. The students had to study gram the country's history, culture, district. He said, "It is based on a district steering committee direcgeography, as well as the political and economic systems. The students ting a steering committee in every school. This steering committee inwere graded on their research process skills, composition and social cludes teachers, the principal and parents and comprises a system of studies knowledge. The entire project fell under the points which includes principal career ladder program. Teachers observation, after school work, exRob Newey, Paula Landeen, Mary tended days etc." He added that the extended day Pusey, Mike Gordan, Lorin Hennik, feature "is most with the Jerry Fairbourne, Betty Engstrom teachers and is popular the least probably and Lela Newey all received career ladder monies for their curriculum popular with parents. The extended day allows teachers days to prepare development and the fair itself. and outlines for parent According to Newey, every sixth grades conferences teacher etc." grader participated. The gifted and He said "reaction to career ladder talented as well as some was good this year. Teachers would students from the like two types of evaluations, Resource program were all one ato see check and the other by apspot mainstreamed together. The gifted pointment." and talented students were comHe admitted that at first "there missioned to invent their own was some resistance by teachers to own with its complete career ladder" but added that most geography,, history, and political teachers in the district are showing system. He urged local PTA's to One such student when quizzed acceptance. have their principal explain career why her "country" named Paradise ladder projects and goals in a PTA Island was located just 10 degrees meeting during the next year to from the equator and advertised familiarize the public with the goals snow skiing as one of its main exand outcome of career ladder proports, answered, "On Paradise Island, you can have what you jects. 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