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Show ;-v f " 1 i J jT A j State Specialist Dr. Jay Hainsworth, Principal John Elwell, Kindergarten Teacher Mrs. Rick (Sheryl) Pickett, Superintendent Dennis Nelson, PTA President Mrs. Frederick (Ann) Prince. Park City School District Investigating Possibility of Establishing Parent-Child Toy- Lending Library of his time assigned to thepro-- thepro-- gram; four Toy Library Teacher Teach-er Training Workshops have been conducted; and each school implementing the program has had one to five follow-up visits. By June 1973, it is hoped that 20 school districts in Utah will be implementing the Parent Child Toy Library. Mrs. Pickett, the Marsac Elementary Kindergarten teacher, will go to a special meeting in Ogden next month and receive special training to initiate in-itiate the program. The Park City School District Dis-trict is investigating the possibility pos-sibility of establishing a Parent-Child Toy Lending Library. Dr. Jay Hainsworth from the Utah State School Board office gave a presentation about the program to local school leaders earlier this week. The Parent-Child Toy Library Lib-rary was developed by the Far West Labratory for Educational Research and Development for parents or pre-school children. The program is designed to: Help children feel better about themselves; Help children develop skills and problem -solving abilities. Help parents have an important im-portant voice in deciding how schools teach their children. The Parent-Child Toy Library Lib-rary teaches parents to use toys and games at home with their children to develop the children's chil-dren's intellectual abilities. In an eight-week course (about one hour a week) the parent is -taught how to respond to the child's interest in the games, how to let the child set his pace, and how to guide him without pressure. After completing com-pleting the course, parents are free to borrow these toys, just as one would borrow a book from a library. For each toy, there are easy-to-follow directions for several learn-activities that teach specific concepts and skills. The Adult Education and Training Division of the State Board of Education is incorporating incor-porating the Toy Library Program Pro-gram as a component of the Utah Early Childhood Education Program. Pro-gram. To date, ten Utah school districts dis-tricts have implemented the program into at least one school in each district; a state level coordinator has one quarter |
