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Show 4B Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, Mar. 30, 1983 Teacher Uses UnusualTeaching Method No More Tar & Gravel! By CHERYL ARCHIBALD - Review Correspondent use BOUNTIFUL It has the appearance of an ordinary classroom desks in a circle, students seated, a couple of them asking the teacher questions, a hoy at the front waiting for the class's attention so he can begin his report. But after a closer look, you get the feeling that this class is different. The incubator at the back with eggs under lights and oine newly hatched chick are one sign that the instruction here is ; Neoprene Hypo Ion Avoid Spring Rush Call Ralph Nowl wahavatha answer! Npble Roofing 1 544-952- 0 Insulation Shingles warm and original. Even though the children have a classroom computer, the teaching methods. are far from the impersonal, programmed proven by statistics roofs Built-u- p Insured Free Estimates cur-riculu- i m n m m rnrrcoupoN. tieieieieii L.S.R. --f FALIILY FUN SPECIAL to be effective." Norman Hassett has brought His outside experience into the classroom enriching lessons to teach the three Rs and more. He has been teaching school for six years and for five of them he has been at Bountiful Elementary. It seems natural that he was a tutor for younger children in a one-roo- lllfllMlfl LAKGE PIZZA nkSUfWM LAKGE HTCEER ef SOFT DRLK 30 FREE GAME TOKENS (m $2SJt Yilue) Art tmlU rfl tiker wnyiM r arNWIlM m schoolhouse when he was in the eighth grade while the regular teacher taught the older students. He said that his teacher in that little school in Montana was really good and that is why he decided to go into education after spending six and a Half years in the Marines and Air Force and seven years 'PimccMOs Pizza & Family Fan ; building homes, and then managing a region for Walter Carpet Mills. He said that he lnows how a good teacher can really make a difference. Its not every child who goes bag full of homemade suckers to sell to classmates with the teachers Approval, but Hassett encourages that sort of entrepreneur-ing- . Also, the class has its own government two days a week complete with a president, lawyer, judge, a bank, a store, 2nd police. Hassett explained that every year teachers are supposed to teach economics, so he developed the idea of a At the beginning of the year Hassett is owner of all the desks, and when the government is formed with its elected officials, it buys the desks from Him and sells them to individual students. Money is designed by the students to use in their dealings, but there are also checks from the bank that they will learn to ! off to school with a mini-societ- y. use. 1 The operates on mini-societ- y O S4lkrm Aprils, ISO Wednesgovernment days stuwhen and days Fridays dents are able to sell their tyares. Some years, Hassett said, ; there have been some students who try to buy all the property or space they can. One year a student tried to buy the tiles in front of the water fountain and vas going to charge people to get a drink. Hassett didnt allow that because he could foresee problems with it, but he said it was an example to the students of how valuable property was in the old West when a persons property had more water holes on it than his neighbors had. s Computers are used in Has-sett- class this year to familiarize the kids with the language and as a teaching aid. One boy who is proficient at computer programming has fnade tapes of games and sold them to other students. Computer time is even bought and sold for recess time. I dont use the government in classroom management because it gets into problems, Hassett said. And I try to stay out of moralizing. The only effective way to do it is to let the Students make all decisions on government day. I only step in when it conflicts with school rules. A court trial will be coming soon because the bank is out of ; HASSETT, who teaches fifth grade at Bountiful Elementary, works with his chicks which he brought to his class for NORMAN PHONE hatching. The "norm" in Hassett's class may be the "unusual" for other teachers. money and it will be accused of They take 21 days to hatch, said Hassett, but after 17 days mismanagement of funds, Hassett said. This is the first it seems cruel to crack them suit we have had this year be- open because they have, their cause this class is so eyes, feathers, and beak. The that there have not been many class, then; votes not to open disputes. Usually there are any more. The first thing that the stucomplaints about government even calling for ear- dents see, to their wonderment, officials ly elections, but this year every- is the heart actually beating by one seems happy with 'each itself for about 30 minutes beother. fore it stops, according to Has-- ' Housebuilding became a trad- sett. They watch the progresition in Hassetts classes for sion of the chicks and when the several years, but the students first chicken pecks its way out were unable to do it this year of the shell, it has a tooth on the because of the lack of classroom end of its beak which drops off time. later. In other years, Hassett obActually, the hatching is the tained two or three plans from frosting on the cake, said Hasbuilders in the community and sett, stating that his goal is to students chose the one they get the class to think more abwould use. Hassetts seven out genes and chromosomes. years experience of building They have to measure the em- houses was put to good use and draw pictures,- examine a scale model house was built with micrscopes, and write abexout each stage. entirely by the students Parents of Hassetts students cept for checks on the measurements and pouring the founda- are zealous when they talk abtion. out his teaching methods and in A problem student who had particular, the journals which been in trouble and who had a each student keeps in the claslow reading and math ability in sroom. He explained the journals as the regular curriculum, was ascommunicasigned the task of wiring a being a home. He and an assistant sur- tion between teacher and stuprised everyone by placing the dent. If a student writes in his light switches and sockets and or her journal that day, I always other wiring in the exact places answer it that night, he said, indicated on the blueprints. adding that this year will probA few students that same year ably be rememberd as the were unable to even read a rul- year of the journal because of er, but after carpeting floors, the amount of writing the sturoofing, and installing windows, dents have done this year. Most years maybe two jourthey knew exactly what an inch was. nals will be filled, but this year Twenty-eigh- t professions some kids have filled five jourand trades were involved in the nals and are working on their said Hassett. sixth. construction, We had a banker come into the The journals are a way of class to .explain how to make a opening up relationships with loan, and a developer, who ex- the students in a confidential plained that there were certain way relationships that may places you could or couldnt have turned another direction if build. Students became paint- the students 'hadnt had the ers, brick masons, and interior chance to express their feelings. One year I was a referee for decorators, making decisions about colors, corners, tjripplers, the boys soccer team and one of and headers. my students was on the team. A deaf student in one of HasSomeone tripped him during the setts classes was being over- game, and I didnt call it, Has- looked by the students who were just not communicating wit! Every teacher,' said RH I LSSTAUTO'M'OTjyjE 1 COUPOJDLE vacuum SERVICE NOW . Power Rog. Includes: New motor brushes (If New belt needed) Clean & adjust brush roller Clean & check field & armature. Lubricate bearings, New paper replacement bag. WE FEATURE Rebuilt Kirby's, Hoover's, Uprights & Canister Eureka's, Electro Lux, $2995 AS LOW AS All Guarantees in Writing. Has- sett, thinks at the end of the day of some student who he had not spoken to during the day. When I think of someone who I may have forgotten about, then I will sit down and write an apology to that student in his or her journal. And, Hassett said that the kids in his classes not only write, because of the journals, but they communicate. Even a Guatemalan student who speaks very little English has had a writing experience that she may not otherwise have had. One reason he has been able to do so many creative things in class, Hassett said, is that he has a totally supportive principal, Glen Tonge. I always check with him and he is always supportive of any creative or plan. Hassett also invites parents to participate in his class activities and has nine parents helping him this year. Besides the classroom projects, Hassett is involved with overseeing the Safety Team which he initiated in order to give more students leadership activities. to 6 Mon. thru Fri. OPEN 9 9 to KIRBY-HOOVER-EURE- 1 Sat. KA REPAIR & SALES 1512 Wash. Blvd. Eq Side Under Blue Ph. & 392-210- 2 Yellow Sign Ml MARY I JANE NELSON TELLS: out-reachi- her. Hassett made her the homeowner and every decision made on the house had to be approved by her. By the end of the year, said Hassett, They were communicating with her. To teach the class embryology, Hassett uses a real life example by allowing the class to hatch chickens. Two dozen eggs are placed in an incubator and one egg is cracked open every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for 17 days. Birthday party specialists ll 11 llll o, - two-wa- y 290-004-0 ttSO So. PomMtlfnl (ColonUl Sq.) sett said. The boy complained to me, but I told him to go back to the game and play, never explaining to him the situation as I saw it. The next day the boy let Hassett have it in his journal. He vented his feelings, said Hassett, which made him feel completely better by the next day. That night I wrote back to him giving him a rational reason for my decision in the game. ' It was all forgotten and when the class made plans for hatching chickens, he stayed after school one day for an hour and a half helping me build the incubator. 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