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Show Schools anticipate education changes up to grade level norms. A limiting factor Since tight budgets prevent the system from Increasing professional personnel to correspond cor-respond with Increased stu-dent stu-dent enrollments, teacher-pupil teacher-pupil load will likely increase again for the 1971-72 school year. Budgets will be tight be- J. CLAIR MORRIS Superintendent Iron County School District Individualized instruction will be the central focus as a means to education in the Iron Schools for 1971, as has been the case since 1950. The password in educational lit erature will continue to be "accountability." While we presently have fiscal accountability, accoun-tability, the new slant to the term focuses on educational accountability or the equality , and quantity of the educational educa-tional product compared to , the financial input. This con-J con-J cept could lead to more con- sumer choice in schools and teachers and more objective measurement in evaluating student progress with the group results published for reader consumption and evaluation. eval-uation. It used to be that education was a privilege for the few. It is now define as a human right for all. Ex-Commissioner A Education, Dr. James Allen, indicated that all Americans should be able to read functionally func-tionally by 19S0. This challenge chal-lenge is being accepted by school systems across the United States. While Iron County students on the average aver-age .read up to national norms, there are individual students who read below the average. Iron Schools will accept this national challenge and will marshall its resources in an attempt to bring all students cause of inadequate appropriations, appropri-ations, inflationary spirals, and salary demands by professional pro-fessional and classified personnel. per-sonnel. Increased teacher loads may partially be offset y greater use of less costly personnel such as parent volunteers, vol-unteers, secretaries, and teacher aides. To also compensate com-pensate for the heavy teacher loads, greater use will be made of self-contained, canned learning packets which rely on filmstrips, video-tapes, programmed materials, mater-ials, 16mm films, computer terminals, and self-contained evaluation systems. Automation Automa-tion in education will further supplement the teacher as years go by. There will come a time when much of the child's formal education will take place in the home via (Conitnued on Page Three) tors will continually stream-into stream-into North Elementary be-1 cause of the experience approach ap-proach to the teaching of reading, and their involve-I involve-I mom in the Utah Systems Approach Ap-proach to Individualized Learning (USAID, a statewide state-wide project. The East and South Elementarios will gain due recognition because of their extensive use of programmed pro-grammed reading materials and par?nt volunteers for help in reading. The Escal-ante Escal-ante Valley School, because of its smallness, will maintain its reputation as having a low teacher-pupil ratio compared with other schools in the system sys-tem and will continue to be the best equipped small school in the state. National emphasis ans, principals, bus drivers. cooks, custodians, secretaries,' teacher aides, etc., and infla- j tionary costs will reduce our capacity to purchase fooj for, lunch rooms, books, supplies, I etc., by 6 or 7 per cent. Unless I adequate appropriations are made by the legislature, conflict con-flict or disappointment or both will result, with decreased decreas-ed educational quality and quantity peering in from the sidelines as a passible final result. While strides in the improvement im-provement of education for j Indians have been made during dur-ing the 1970-71 school year, greater energies in this direction di-rection will be forthcoming-In forthcoming-In addition to better education educa-tion for Indians, the Iron School System presently employs em-ploys three of this race and is in the process of training a fourth to become a teacher's aide. Other public and private pri-vate agencies should also strive to provide them with employment. i soiit financial conditions- Be- cause of a changing teehnol- I ogieal society which will i make a person's vocational j technical, and professional ! skills become obsolete at least seven times during a life time, it will, therefore, become necessary for a person in the future to be reeducated sever different times in order to be employable. If one "sheds his educational skin" seven times in a life time, then continuing or adult education will become be-come a quantity education problem along with early childhood education. Early childhood education, continuing continu-ing education, and the present pre-sent programs for kindergarten kindergart-en through twelfth grades equal mountainous tasks. Add to that the new frontier of in-reased in-reased quality in each and ne has in capsule form the future demands and expectations expecta-tions of the culture relative to education. When one ponders the future expectations and compares on an earthy plane with the present financial budget, they seem to be light years apart. Whatever will be will be. (Continued from Front Page) Sesame Street type television, computer terminals, and high speed, homebound printing systems. The school will be come the coordinating agent. The summer of 1971 should bring green grass to the east campus of Cedar High, to the property by 400 West' of the Cedar Junior High, and to the area west of the Parowan High Auditorium. The sprinkling sprink-ling systems are installed and await spring for planting, watering, and other tender, love, and care. Special Programs Block scheduling will likely continue at Parowan High due to its fine success during the 1970-71 school year. Cedar High will enter its fifth year of modular scheduling which has proved to be successful and popular among students. Cedar Junior High will continue con-tinue to receive positive recognition rec-ognition because of the English En-glish and social science programs pro-grams in the "Ruby" and "Gold" rooms. The Cedar Junior Jun-ior High will continue to be anxious to plan a new, additional addi-tional building to their campus camp-us so they can demolish the old buildings on the southeast corner of the block. Our present pre-sent schedule of bond payments pay-ments will enable them to 'get serious with plans in about 1974. Until then, they will have to suffer with anxiety anxi-ety and with an old obsolete building. Recognition will continue to come to the Parowan Elementary El-ementary because of its outdoor out-door education site up Parowan Paro-wan Main Canyon on Benson Creek and beacuse of their strength teaching and non-graded non-graded math programs. Visi- Beacuse of an increased local, state, and national problem, pro-blem, greater emphasis will be placed on drug education and on ways to improve life so escape mechanisms such as drugs will not be necessary. Since 75 per cent of our students stu-dents desire academic training train-ing which prepares them for only 23 per cent of the employment, em-ployment, an attempt will be made to change their goals toward vocational and technical techni-cal education where 73 per cent of the employment exists. A greater emphasis will be placed on vocational and technical tech-nical education. Parents also need to change their attitudes toward vocational and technical techni-cal education and, via acculturation, accul-turation, student attitudes would also become more positive posi-tive toward these goals of national na-tional priority. Increased demands for salary sal-ary increases will be made by teachers, counselors, librari- Quality a goal While public education has, in essence, conquered quantity quanti-ty education for kindergarten through twelfth grade, the same is not true for quality education. From this point on, quality will receive the emphasis em-phasis and will be the new frontier. Quantitywise, early childhood education is just around the corner. Research shows the most productive educational ed-ucational years to be before the age of five years. Early childhood education will come first to the educationally, culturally, cul-turally, and economically deprived de-prived and handicapped and later to all pre five year olds. Iron County can not provide these programs under the pre- The Iron School District strives to provide the highest quality education for each student that is within its capacity cap-acity to provide and at the same time, strives to increase its capacity that students will be the educational recipients. Our main purpose is to educate. edu-cate. All other goals are simply sim-ply supplementary and instru-mental. instru-mental. In 1971, the Iron District Dis-trict will strive to educate all students to their maximum, commensurate with their physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth. It is our privilege to serve the residents res-idents of Iron County. |