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Show New teaching methods analized by SUSC education majors As part of their teacher education program, a group of elementary education majors from Southern Utah State College recently examined a new reading program being used by the Jordan School District. The students visited two elementary schools in the Salt Lake area where pilot studies using the Goal-based Education Management System (GEMS) are being made. GEMS, as explained by Kent Myers, SUSC professor of education, is a system in which the reading process is broken into between 50 and 60 specific skills. . Each student is taught according ac-cording to an individualized program designed especially for him by a computer. The computer com-puter program, called TRACER.provides management information for each student on a rapid, individual basis and is not used in the actual teaching process, Myers noted. SUSC students who visited the northern schools are completing special training in the teaching of reading. The GEMS model, as well as other innovative teaching programs to increase competency com-petency in teaching reading, are being studied as part of the SUSC curriculum. |