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Show i l i s , , t r. s- , l; . y ' Y I I i " t v 1 i 4 I ) xa y a. ' t WORKING TOGETHER Principals Calvin Walker and Thomas Larsen (standing) discuss activities of the Curriculum Conference, Nov. 16. Kenneth Ludlow, Rossi Radmall, Jennie Gleason and Dorothy Bearnson, left to right, were group leaders who helped direct activities. Alpine Pisfrid: Teachers Uod Curriculum Conference Wednes. Superintendent Dan W. Peterson Peter-son announced that the annual Curriculum Conference of the Alpine Al-pine School District was held Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 16. It started at 1:15 p.m. with students being dismissed after attending more than half a day and teachers teach-ers going to assigned buildings in the district where they conducted various types of inservios classes and activities until 4:30 p.m. The Curriculum Conference was organized under the direction of Ass't Superintendent Quinn A. Hatch. District supervisors, principals prin-cipals and teachers throughout the district cooperatively planned the half-day conference. Dean Worlton, Director of Pupil Pu-pil Personnel, reported that counselors, coun-selors, teachers of special education educa-tion classes, visiting teachers, nurses, and speech correctionists met at the Pleasant Grove High School. Elwood Pace, Supervisor of Special Education Programs for the State Department of Public Pub-lic Instruction discussed the role of special education in the total curriculum. s All of the Alpine School District Dis-trict secondary teachers met at the American Fork Senior High School, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. on a subject area basis. This phase of the conference was planned by Charles Walker, supervisor of the senior high schools. Driver education teachers from Provo, Nebo, Juab and Alpine worked on a new state course of study v Directing this meeting were Dr. Vaughn Hall and Robert Rob-ert Leake of the state office. Members of the state superin- tendent's staff explained the new math guide to the teachers of this subject. Lincoln Junior High School was the gathering place for junior high teachers. Under the direction of Dr. Elliot C. Howe, supervisor of Junior High Schools, twelve departmental meetings wens held. The English department con. ducted demonstrations and a panel pan-el to develop an over-all program of grammar for the junior high school, grades 7 through 9. History and geography teachers teach-ers had Evan Memmott of the BYU Audio-Visual Center, demonstrate dem-onstrate techniques and methods of developing and using audiovisual audio-visual materials. The industrial arts teachers had a demonstration on the use of the overhead projeotor by Calvin Cal-vin Ashby, Dixon Junior High. Asael Fisher and E. N. Pearson, outstanding industrial arts teachers teach-ers of the state, demonstrated phases of industrial arts. Science teachers planned science sci-ence fairs for 1960-61 and then visited the John Hutchings Museum Mu-seum in Lehi. Sixth grade teachers located in the junior high school met at Lehi Junior High School where they worked on methods of improving im-proving spelling. Elementary school personnel met at the Hillcrest and West-more West-more Elementary Schools under the supervision of Margaret Johnson John-son and Donna O. Ash, elementary element-ary supervisors. Remedial reading, second and third grade teachers assembled at Hillcrest; kindergarten, first, fourth, fifth and sixth grade teachers tea-chers met at the Westmore School Erma Bennet, BYU faculty, Dr. Wanda Robertson, U of U and Inez McDonald, American Fork, discussed and demonstrated various var-ious phases of educational instruction. |