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Show Page 2ft THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Sunday, November 15, 1970 New Slant On English Teaching Ind. BLOOMINGTON, across the country will soon be studying Er;glish from a different point of view. They will be learning that the language is a code, a system of signals and rules for sending and receiving messages. This is the approach taken by "Code-English- the ," new arts series for the language intermediate grades from the National Instructional Television Center. Based on recent NEBO SCHOOL DISTRICT shops at Payson High School, used for many years, are seen here. The shops will soon be moved to the new building being constructed at 6ih N. 3rd E. in Payson. The shops serve all of the Nebo School District, from Springvllle south to Goshen and the adjacent areas. School buses will be serviced a id based at the new shops, which will be located across town from Payson High. Wasatch Board Organizes Keck Earns Master M District Advisory Group Man Award are The Wasatch HEBER Board of Education has recently formed an advisory committee to help study the priority needs, long-terplanning goals, and other items regarding education in the Wasatch School District. vice Leon Hardcastle, president of the Board of Education, will represent the Board of Education working with the advisory committee. m tempt to visit other schools within the state and citizens in welcome to the community travel by bus with the committee members, when these trips are scheduled. Further information regarding these trips will be given at a later date. The first committee meeting was held in the Midway Elementary School, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1970. The entire Board of d Board Education, of Education members,' school administrators and a nucleus of the advisory committee were present. Dr. Leon Christiansen from the state school board's office also met with the committee. Report Reviewed The 1967 advisory committee report was reviewed by Jim Smedley, who was the of the committee. Superintendent Bert Gividen reviewed plans of evaluation within the schools now in progress. Mr. Moroni Besen-dorfe- r, principal of the Midway Elementary School, discussed the school program, staff, and building. The advisory committee then discussed expansion of the advisory committee, and elected three members as a steering committee to suggest the organizational structure of the advisory committee and necessary leadership within the committee. newly-electe- Representative The advisory committee members are a cross sectional representative body from the entire district. There are seven women and 2 men representing an area cross section within the district boundaries: Center Daniel, Creek, Charleston, Heber, Lake Creek, Midway, and Wallsburg, plus outlying areas of each of these communities. The members of the will hopefully committee represent the attitudes and feelings of the people within the district. It is hoped that citizens within these areas of the district will contact the members of the committee and express their opinions so that committee members can bring total opinion of the district to the attention of the Board oi Education, officials say. In addition to committee meetings, the district will at PAYSON-El- mo C. Keck, 85 W. 500 N., Payson, has been presented with his Master M Man Award, as approved by LaMark Wignall, Nebo Stake MIA president. Mr. Keck is employed as music teacher leader in Nebo School District. He has taught in the IDS Church College of New Zealand, where he previously served as an IDS missionary. A native of Liberty, Neb., lie attended high school in Albany, Ore., where he was president of his senior class and captain of the track team. He was student director and president of the A Capella Choir and a member of the school band while attending Albany High School. As a student at Ricks College he was president of Lamba Delta Sigma, a member of the track team and sang with the Madrigal Singers. At Erigham Young University he was a member of the A Capella Choir and in numerous musical productions. He and his wife, Cheryl, are active members of Payson Third Ward, where he currently serves as ward chorister. They are parents of three children, Lori Anne, 4; Brenton, 2; and Dwayne, 1. related topics. The NIT series which is now available was produced by the OQED Instructional Television Service, San Francisco, in cooperation with the Bay Area Educational Television Association. Its creator and studio teacher is Robert W. L Smith, whose earlier NIT telecourse, "The WordSmifr' has been widely used in the nation's schools. As the Codesmith on the new series, Mr. Smith joins forces with a simulated computer, the Code Language Input Determiner (CLID for short), and a mysterious colleague, Mr. Moon, who exercises his otherworldly intelligence in the service of English. is The point of "Code-Englisthat all communication is by code, that every language is a code, and that English i a double-cod- e in which speech encodes thought and writing recodes speech. Within the conceptual framework of the series students investigate language problems such as smash-up- s (when one signal two conflicting gives messages); the chaos of English spelling; the intricacies of word-signpatterns of stress, pitch, and timing as developed by punctuation; and the history of wndng. Also available from NIT is a s) " "Code-English- 90-pa- teacher's manual. It describes each lesson schematically through diagrams of the code process demonstrated by the CUD computer. In addition it includes suggested warm-u- p and follow-u- p activities, special ," games called and a comprehensive bibliography. ss - MT. PLEASANT Kurt Ashton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowe Ashton of Heber City, will play the part of Reverend Parris in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Nov. 21 in the Wasatch report card may result in a reduction in the allowance, a scolding or a dented psyche. Ask the child who brings one a child's academic progress are the subject of almost constant home. debate among contemporary A good report card, on the educators. other hand, wins a child of A school Craighead Academy auditorium. survey public teachers on their methods of reporting pupil progress showed six methods of "reporting" currently in vogue. Most popular is the card with a classified scale of letters, usually A to F. Second on the list is a scheduled conference with parents. approval from parents, peers and teachers. Sometimes it a brings a money award quarter for each A, a dime for each B and so on. Ask the child who brings one home. But how good are the report cards, per se? Not very adequate in most cases, accord punctuation, phonetics, and Heber Youth In Production to the ment of the National Education Association (NEA). In fact, the various methods of reporting on A poor alJ ELMO KECK ""' l.i " "" S"- -! ( " 1 word-game- "Scram-blegrams- Value of Report Cards More Often Challenged Research Depart -ing NEW YORK (UPI) linguistic scholarship, the telecourse Is devised to make students aware of the dynamics of written and spoken English. Its fifteen leasons exemine the code structure part by part. Throughout the series the delights and curiosities of language spring up in puns, and riddles that enliven the study of spelling, The drama department or Wasatch Academy is producing this play about witchcraft trials in Salem. The academy is a coeducational boarding high school sponsored by the United Presbyterian Church. ""1 Double-seaso- n 1 doublekrtit new rONi TODD PINPOINTING A LOCATION where BYU Education Day will be held is Dr. Reed Bradford, right, while Lynn McKlnlay, left, and Milton Sharp hold the map and discuss the Education Day program. Mr. McKlnlay and Dr. Bradford are frequent speakers on the tours and Mr. Sharp is chair vara of the Department of Lectures end Courses. Four Education Days were held this weekend. Education Days Vandenberg Profs Feature Top Lehi XY7 Stake Ten Young Brigham University faculty members went to four IDS stakes this weekend to give lectures on religion, family living, John H. genealogy and other subjects. Authority LEHI Vandenberg, Bishop presidl. Bishop of The program is called BYU the IDS Church, will represent the General Authorities at the Education Day and is designed Lehi Stake Conference today. to carry the spirit of BYU and The general session of the continuing education to memconference will convene at 10 bers of the church all over the a m. in the Lehi Stake Center, it country, according to the was reported by President Dean Department of T. Worlton. Music for the Lectures and Courses. Reed Leon Hartshorn, general session will be furnished and Bradford, an Kathy Taylor chorus, by directed by David W. Adamson, were at Grand Coulee North with Davis Peterson as ac- Stake in Quincy, Wash., and Lynn M. McKmlay, Henry J. companist. Closed circuit television Nicholes and Carol Ellsworth coverage will be provided in the were in Beaver, Utah, Stake. The Great Falls Stake in Ward and also various rooms in the Stake Center to ac- Montana was visited by George commodate the overflow crowd. Pace and Stella Oaks, while Junior Sunday School sessions Elmer Knowles and William O. will be held in the Stake Center Nelson were in the Alberta S'ake and the Fifth Ward for young in Cardston, Canada. children, President Worlton The programs are requested stated. by Bishops and stake presidents Regular Sacrament Meetings to meet the specific educational will be held in the various wards and spiritual needs of their Special members. The programs include evening. Sunday meetings were held Saturday "Know Your Religion," evening. genealogical Children were taught to read and write at age four in Egypt 3,000 years ago. seminars through advanced), summer lecture tour, Book of Mormon classes for adults or youth, church history classes for (beginning adults or youth and BYU credit classes. Also special workshops and seminars are conducted in "The Art of Womanhood," genealogy, family relations, business management, speed reading and Your "Strengthening Marriage." Last year the department Education Day provided programs for 26 locations throughout the nation. This year the department anticipates over 30 areas taking advantage of the program. Last year locations which could not support full Education Weeks usually selected the summer lecture tour, in which Daniel Ludlow traveled on the northern circuit and Spencer J. Palmer traveled on the southern circuit. OREM National Children's Book Week will be observed during the week of Nov. 1 at Orem City Library. Films on some favorite children's picture books will be shown by Miss Carol Oaks of the State Library e room Staff in the of the City Hall Wednesday Nov. lftth at 3:45 pin. for all children 15-2- multi-purpos- interested. There will also be an exhibit of children's art work, under the direction of Miss Margaret Johnson, in the children's of the City Library. department . 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