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Show ,4A August 20, 1984 Emery County r ; N. i j C. 7 Teachers study mastery learning Mastery learningwere and the teaching for mastery workshop held topics of a at Emery County High School Nearly 40 Emery Aug. School District teachers par- V ay AVv A 11-1- 4. ticipated. The program was part of the offered ongoing training being district the to local educators by as It prepares teachers for the XN total J ; Is It f District, V :rj ' students are part of the song, dance, comedy and fun It's all done In the Shakespearean Festival In Cedar City. tradition of Elizabethan England. A lot of Shakespeare draws locals in Shakespearean FestivalPrice Cedar City. The group left Friday morning, added participants throughout Emery County, and arrived in Cedar City Friday afternoon. While at the festival, the group attended a Friday evenJulius ing performance of a and Saturday Caesar, matinee performance of A Midsummer Nights Dream, and a Saturday evening performance of Loves Labours Lost. But the trip included a great deal more than attending the plays. Tour director Nei Warren, forensics instructor the College of Eastern Utah and " COU PON Erf U-- i an annual visitor at the festival, conducted discussion sessions prior to the trip as well as on the bus to and from the festival. Several of the participants are working toward earning college credits from the tour, and Mr. Warren worked closely with them in outlining material for at plans, diagnostic progress testing, reteaching activities and extension activities. Mrs. Leggett noted that mastery learning is a part of a bigger program known as outcome based education which is an educational system within a district where ob Mervin Duncan, chairman of the Emery County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) said, Ballots have been mailed to wool producers on record in the county ASCS office for the purpose of conducting a nation group discussions held at The Grove the day following the plays. Jessie Bennett, a Utah actor and former participant in the Festival, Shakespearean discussions. Also, conducted the two of the members of the 1986 acting company were availabe on Saturday to discuss their backgrounds as well as their roles in the three plays. Of course, the highlight of the visit was attending the plays. Julius Caesar, which was made up of a relatively young Loves Labours cast, and Lost were held in the new outdoor Shakespearean Theater on the campus of the College of Southern Utah. A Midsummer Nights Dream was presented in the schools indoor theater. Ten of the participants were from Emery County and included Neal Peacock who was the coordinator of the tour for this area. This was the third year Mr. Peacock has attended the festival. It gets better and better each year, he said. Those who organize the festival do a tremendous job. While in Cedar City, the group stayed at dormitories on the SUSC campus. They were able Mr. and Mrs. Neal Peacock, Castle Dale, watch the Greenshow at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. to attend several programs held in conjunction with the festival including literary seminars, production seminars, backstage tours, orientation and a Renaissance feast, green-show- with them s, and displays of art and Shakespearean costumes. Also attending the festival and driving the tour bus was Jay Andrus, chairman of the CEU humanities department. The wool referendum. conducted be will referendum from Aug. 18 through Aug. 29. Voting may be done by mail or in person at the county ASCS office. Wool and lamb producers who have not received a ballot should contact the ASCS office. The purpose of the referendum is for producers to determine whether to approve or not approve a new agreement between the administrator, AMS and the American Sheep Producers Council, Inc. (ASPC) for the advertising and sales promotion of lamb and wool. If producers their peers. Discussions centered around lesson planning, evaluating the students ability to learn, for correctives preparing students who do not pass the final and examination ex- tensions for those students who move at a more rapid pace. the workshop, Throughout Mrs. Leggett emphasized that mastery learning is a theory of teaching based upon ideal situations. She said that the management of such a program has to be applied according to the needs of the teacher and that some flexibility must be allowed in order to meet the changing needs of students and teachers. ballot indicate approval in the referendum, deduction will be made from shorn wool and unshorn lambs payments for 1986 through 1990 to finance the ASPCs activities. Any individual, corporation, partnership or partial owner in one or more sheep is eligible to vote if all of the following apply: 1. Producer had an interest as owner or partial owner in one or more sheep; 2. Sheep were 6 months old or older for at least 30 days in 1985 ; 3. Ownership was for at least 30 days in 1985. There shall be no voting by proxy. For more information, interested persons may contact the Carbon County ASCS office on Wednesdays, phone or the Emery County ASCS office at 637-214- 381-230- 1, 0. Foreign students arrive at Emery High students sponThe 1986-8- 7 sored by the Education Foun- dation for Foreign Study arrived in Emery County on Aug. 13 and 14. The students and their host families are: Marcus Stiegler, Germany, who will live with the William Bacon family of Green River and attend Green River 1(13 gJE)0OE) in examination. Also, the steps include the development of mini unit lesson During the workshop, teachers developed their own mastery units and discussed ASCS mails wool critical papers. At the festival, the group attended seminars prior to each of the three Shakespearean plays and then were able to get additional insight into the productions the prerequisite skills before beginning a unit as well as outline the new learning to be mini taught, and then to develop final a and units teaching Maribelle Wareham and Elaine Ralphs of Ferron enoy a discussion session at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. which attended the They were part of a local tour group festival last week. group from the 20th century Castle Country of Southeastern Utah into the 15th century of Elizabethan England, and the journey only took a few hours. About 30 people participated in the annual College of Eastern Utah tour to the Utah conducted workshop which offered three college credits from Southern Utah State College. directed was Emphasis toward the steps in planning for mastery. This calls for the teacher to set unit objectives, analyze the necessary skills through task analysis, test the i into the past last week for a group of Emery and Carbon county tourists. A bus took the of mastery learning. It was also one of several workshops offered this summer by the district which gives additional training In education. Diana Leggett, an elementary and secondary Instructor In the Fort Worth, Texas, School . It was much like a journey implementation jectives are publicly stated. The system also Includes a way of assessing the achievement of these objectives, and also maintains a grading system that reflects performance. Mastery learning is the Individual classroom instruction portion of outcome based education. Mrs. Leggett said that mastery learning Is a philosophy about teaching which asserts that under appropriate Instructional conditions, virtually all students can and will learn well most of what they are taught. With this in mind, the program Is geared toward teaching each student at a pace where he is best able to master an objective. Once that objective is mastered, the student moves on to the next objective. ujcffl) LurcalbeF FinHigh School; Tuuli Ahola, hosted be will by the land, who Wame Linton family of Huntington; Raul Ikonen, Finland, will live with the George Turner family of Orangeville; Torann Sognefast, Norway, who will be a member of the Thayne Cox family in Orangeville; the Annell Jackson family in Ferron will host Kristina Hoffman from Sweden. Those four students will attend Emery High. These young people come to the United States to learn the customs and to understand U.S. history and traditions. They will 84513381-257- become a part of their munity, and be members of an American family. These foreign students have been chosen after a thorough screening process in their homelands. com- Education Foundation exchange students have above average academic records and all speak English well. They are echs lunch Monday, Aug. 25, pizza, cole slaw, beets, apple crisptopping and milk. 26, beans, green spaghetticheese, peaches, French bread and Tuesday, TWWUHTTHMUUTSAHDUJft 495 East Main, Castle Dale, Ut. attend local high schools, 4 Aug. milk. Wednesday, Aug. 27, French dip sandwich, tater rounds, mature, conscientious sports and activities. 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