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Show s m of U to produce video course on teaching American Indian Students U "i ; Up to a third ofAmerican Indian atudenta in aome Intermountain West schools are placed in special education classes even though they don't belong there, according to teacher educators from the University of Utah who hope to change that trend. Many teachers dont address the cultural and language iaauea that can impact the school success of American Indian students, says Michael Herbert, on instructor with the U.s Graduate School of Education. That lack of understanding can cause students to be placed inappropriately in special education E52K5 in Duchesne Elementary recently participated in the PTA T? p?,dcs opportunities for students to express themselves through the Priy 25 T"Literature, Chance Grant iiS rr li1? Iv e - Literature, ? ' K - G - : 3-- Rae Ann Mccham - Visual Aits; Ashley Tler Reinhardt -V,?V,re: Vual Arts; Alex Redmund - Visual Arts; Kimberly T. r . ' - ar One of the ways to reduce these referrals is to understand heat practices for working with these students, he says. 'Herbert and his colleagues are using a $112,000 grant to create BE GREAJ J Culture and School Success: Teaching American Indians, a distance-learnin- g course that will provide educators with strategies for working with these students. The one-yegrant was awarded by the Utah System of Higher Education Technology and Distance Education Initiative. Over the past six months, a multicultural team comprised of GSE faculty members, individuals t. , ; ' ; Dillen Grant - CD-RO- SSr. 3-- D; Austin WilketVIir 1 from KUEDMedia Solutions, and an advisory board with representatives from seven tribes have collaborated on the development of the course. To guide course content, the team focused on the National Education Goals for American Indiana and Alaska Natives, developed by the UR. Department ofEducations Indian Nations At Risk Task Force. Starting in January, the opera, plus a KUEDMedia Solutions production crew, will be visit- ing schools in San Juan, Uintah, and Salt Lake counties, and selected sites in Idaho and Montana. The team will be filmingdassrooms that demonstrate effective strategies for educating all students, including American Indians, Herbert says. They also will be conducting interviews with parents, teachers, students and administrators. Students under the age of 18 will be asked to provide parental permission before participating. The developers anticipate filming and production to take between six and eight months, and hope to offer the course during the 1999 spring semester. Unlike other distance-learnin- g courses that feature talking head instructors standing in front of the camera, Culture and School Success will beshot documentary-style- , Herbert says. People will be telling their own stories in their own words, he says. In addition to the distance-learnin- g course, KUEDMedia Solutions is planning to use tegmenta from the videos to produce a program that will focus on the educational iaauea affecting American Indian students. The developers also plan to su&mit selected video clips for inclusion in Media Solutions Utah Collections Multimedia Encyclopedia a computer-base- d resource for Utah schools. Less than 10 percent of Utahs population consists of minorities, with American Indians being the second-largeportion of that group. A third ofthe states American Indian population live iua rural environment. Utah has five different tribee in seven different regions, not including those American Indiana who live in the cities. We want the education for all kids to be more equal,Harhert says. We want teachers to feel comfortable so that they can make a positive impact on the school experience of American Indian and other minority students. st Ltiintah ef Basin STANDARD CLASSIFIED mm sue r fl8p07i8$Z?J 0722-ft Vgfr "rin3.jD$Jf8 ff-- 5 1 31 UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. December 30. 1997- - Pace 13 HEADS UP PLAY-- A basketball player appears to have lost his head, but Cody Lefler, right, battles for the ball any way. Tabiona played heads up ball in 1997 and won a state championship. Union to be at home for most of January By Aldon Rachele The Christmas Break is over and now it is time to return to the court and the mat Union Lady Cougars, will battle North Sanpete in Roosevelt Tuesday, December 30 and then will host defending 3-- champion, Carbon High School, January 6. Carbon beat Uintah for the 1996 title in overtime. If Uintah could have hit a free throw in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter, then Carbon would have finished second. The miss enabled the Dinoe to win the title in the overtime period. The Union Male Cougars return home fire a game vs. Lyman, Wyoming, January 3. Union spent almost the entire month of December on the road. Union will have a super home schedule in January with games vs. Moffat County, January 15; Park City, January 21, (girls. 7-- 1, A too); Wasatch, January 23, (girls, also), and Emery, January 28. Union will also have nearby games vs. Uintah, January 9 and Altamont, January 14. Unions wrestling team as well as Altamont, Duchesne will take part in the Vernal Tournament of Champions, January The Cats will have home matches against Delta, January 7; Lehi, January 4; Uintah, January 22 and Carbon, 2-- 3. January 27. Altamont girls and boys hoop team will take part in the Kemmerer, Wyoming Tournament, and both will play January Raneely in Colorado, January 6. Altamonta wrestling team will host Rangely, January 6 Duchesnes girls will battle Grantaville in an awxy game, Tuesday and will host Uintah, January 3. Duchesnes boys will host Tabiona, January 6. 2-- 3, iMmmm- -- i USU Horizons 'Classes Registration is now being taken for USUs Horizons tawing jn January 1998. Daytime classes for adults wall be Quilting Basks Wednesday, Jen. 14, in Vernal at the Golden Age Center and in Roosevelt at the new Crossroads Centennial Senior and Community Center, Country Line Dancing, Thursday, Jan. 15, and Family History writing Wednesday, Jan. 14, will be taught. Evening classes at will be Internet and Family History Monday, January 12, Oil Painting basics Tuesday, Jan. 13, Cross Country Skiing Wednaaday, Jan. 14, and French Cooking Thursday. Jan. 15. At USU-Vemthere will be an Introduction to Windows class Friday, Jan. 9.. For more information cm any of these classes please call 722-22or 9 ext 242. 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Eventually, a White House committee on biotechnology ethics rec- - INTEREST RATES continued from page 13 But one camp believes Asias problems are simply postponing a rate increase that will occur as soon as the region stabilises. After all, before the turmoil struck. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan expressed concern that labor shortages eventually would lead to price inflation. And since then, UR. unemployment has reached a low of 4.6 percent in November, propelling the fastest wage gains in eight years. The other school of thought, though, believes the Fed may avoid increasing rates well into next year and that by then UR. economic momentum will have slowed enough to require a rate cut b an event that last occurred in January 1996. 24-ye- ar copy: mn mended prohibition of human cloning experiments but encouraged studies that use cloning technology to produce useful drugs or advance knowledge about reproduction. 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