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Show EducationOccupatioli Outreach Offers Unique New EHS Program ESCALANTE Escalante High School principal Myron Cot-tarn Cot-tarn can take a bow for the resounding resound-ing success of his new "EducationOccupation "Educa-tionOccupation Outreach program underway this week at the high school in Escalante. Some 27 adults (including the EHS faculty) and the entire student body participated in this week's four-day block of courses designed to acquaint them with career opportunities oppor-tunities available in today's job market. Training was offered in criminal justice, digital electronics, CAD (computer-assisted drafting), diesel mechanics, cosmetology, commercial commer-cial art, desk top publishing, auto mechanics and health occupations. The unique project began a year ago when Cottam was given an assignment as-signment stemming from the Garfield County School District Strategic Plan regarding student education ed-ucation as it jelated to career or occupation oc-cupation orientation. Cottam began researching materials mate-rials and programs on the market or in place at other institutions and then adapted concepts to fit Escalante Es-calante High School's needs. He got together with Leon Stewart, Applied Technology for Garfield County School District and Sevier Valley Applied Technology Center and worked on a grant application ap-plication for funding to implement student education-occupation training. train-ing. He was successful in securing some experimental and developmental develop-mental funding along with vocational voca-tional funding initially from Garfield County School District (in-kind) (in-kind) and the State Board of Education. Educa-tion. Cottam also obtained some short-term intensive training assistance assis-tance from Danny Shakespear, coordinator co-ordinator for Custom FitShort Term training at Southern Utah University. Professor Ken Mun-ford, Mun-ford, chairman of the Technology Department at SUU was also instrumental in-strumental in helping to launch the program. See Education Page 2A Education Occupation Outreach From Page 1 Locally, Cottam worked with Jolcne Smith of the Panguitch Job Service office to implement occupation occu-pation testing and training. Smith tested every student at EHS for aptitude and interests and has completed com-pleted a Student Education Occupation Occupa-tion Plan (SEOP) for each student. Cottam and Smith plan to meet with all the parents and have each student select a goal toward their future occupation. They also plan to send the entire student body to colleges, trade techs, businesses, etc. to have hands-on experience with varied careers. Their first field trip took them to Skyline High School to become acquainted ac-quainted with some 40 health occupations occu-pations being presented there. Instructors participating in this week's courses at EHS from SUU were Munford, teaching digital electronics; Lyman Munford, computer com-puter assisted drafting (CAD); Jean Newville, head of the university's Police Science Department, teaching teach-ing criminalistics; and Richard Whitworth, teaching a small engines en-gines course. From Sevier Valley Applied Technology Center were Dr. Richard Maxfield, superintendent of SVATC, teaching desk top publishing; pub-lishing; Louana Allen, who works in an SVATC outreach program in Wayne County, teaching nursing; Roy Ecker, teaching diesel mechan- ics; CaRol Berthelson, teaching cosmetology; and Diane Barney and Twila Owens, teaching commercial com-mercial art. Two area businesses, South Central Utah Telephone Association Associa-tion and H & S Service, sent employees em-ployees to participate. |