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Show Tuesday, May 21. 1991 4B Sun Advocate. Price, Utah Opening doors: (Continued from Page IB) County School District now, and director of gifted and talented programs is only one of the many hats he wears. For years, the state of Utah has allocated funds to the school district for gifted programs. Only a pittance, it could be used for other things if there was no program for gifted students. Because the state has become more con cerned about providing for the talented, the allocationrose to $13,000 this year orabout $2.50 per pupil. It is not nearly enough, Jensen saidAThe entire allocation could be xsed for testing to identify gifted children. An allocation of mineral lease money to the Carbon diS trict helped pay for schooling for teachers who became certi- fied in teaching the gifted and ) Committee: Continued from Page IB) They believe all educating and acknowledging gifted students. The teachers have proposed that critera for selecting students should be , broad based. Pappas hopes that once the committees work is complete and a gifted and talents should be recognized, that some students require a dif- ferentiated curriculum and every student needs a varie-t- y of talented. Currently, 20 teachers in the district are certified in gifted and talented and 20 more are working on their certification more teachers per capita than any other district in the state. Having a base of trained teachers is vital to developing a program for exceptional students. Until we got these teachers certified, we had a lot of people who wanted to work with gifted kids. But we were i not all speaking the same language," Jensen said. educational opportunities. talented curriculum Basic to a program for the gifted is the philosophy that each student should be educated and challenged to reach hb or her potential. planned, funding will be available. Our OM (Odyssey of the Mind) team is going to Tennessee next week, and we have had auctions and bake sales to earn enough to send them," she said. Furthermore, parents, schools and community should share the right and responsibility of identifying, Now a committee of those teachers is putting together a district plan for working with thfe gifted and talented that wil include teachers and parents. The first obstacle is identifying the gifted. According to Jensen, only 3 percent of the population is truly gifted. However, another philosophy indicate that most people are gifted iri certain areas. Cal Taylor ofUSU believes people are gifted in academic, creative, planning, communicating, forecasting and decisionmaking areas. When identifying the talented, educators talk to their peers, parents and teachers. They look at stu- dents intelligence and achievement tests and consider cultural influences. Over achieving cant be confused with gifted and talentedness," Jensen said. If you put children who are working at their full capacity in an accelerated class, they ITFlliEtlS can be crushed." Jensen believes team teaching is the best approach to helping gifted children, because they could begin at their own level and move on. You cant pull them out and isolate them totally," he explained. You need those kids as a model to others in the classroom, and we need the gifted to realize they are working in the real world." If they were just allowed to accelerate without their classmates, they might not adjust socially, Jensen fears. To use their talents and reach their full potential, they need those experiences as well. Jamie Anderson shows his math tutor, a science project he recently exhibited at the Regional Science Fair. V r. jiiinw 'H.iu Green River High School 1991 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Friday, May 24, 1991 at 7 p.m. Green River High School Auditorium Gary Nell Quamberg Tara Nicole Seager GREEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL Home of the Pirates PROGRAM K 'CY cf t A. M Valedictorian Salutatonan Ernest Weeks Superintendent 4 Gary Quamberg Guest Speaker Tyler LUrk Bastian Blaine F. Evans n.........n......,.ra.mHNHMTiir3 Seager Principal Mr. Richard Robbins Presentation of Graduates Presentation of Diplomas Kotlie Celeste Bayles Biaine F. Evans, Principal Royd Hatt, Board Member - CLASS OFFICERS: President Tara Seager Vice President Kevin Marshall Secretary Garrett Ekker Advisor Data Richards - The Senior Class of 1991 Would Like To Thank All Those Who Made This Night Possible Cherifyn Evans r Ktvln Scott Marshall Douglas Date Richards L!oion Vine Grocery Good luct, Serton Char and Penny Acfwt Tcmarisk Restaurant Good luck, Sfffcri" Kfy and WckJ laasSaw, Sortorj Doris Green River Hardware Good luck, Doug and MsSn and tartan OUtf J Sabra Taylor West Winds Truck Stop Strton Swum Shorts Rytan Doughs Shorts Kenneth Carlos Wilcox Bastian Shell TJet Aten Bums David William Scaly CaMn and Senior! 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