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Show Principals and Administrative Staffs of Alpine School District Discuss Vital School Problems Principals and administrative staff of Alpine School District have just concluded a series of six meetings meet-ings where vital school problems were discussed. The meetings were held on August 18, 20, 23, 2;j, 27 and 30 in Forbes Elementary School and the District Administrative Adminis-trative office. Procedures of the district were clarified and discussed at great length. The philosophy of education educa-tion for the district was reviewed. Ernest Dean, Public Relation Committee Com-mittee of Central Utah Vocational School, discussed the educational opportunities of Utah Vocational School. The integration or the Vo- cational School and Alpine District and the responsibility of Alpine District in participating in the Vocational Vo-cational program were explained. Pupil self control was evaluated. It was staated that mental punishment pun-ishment may be far more damaging damag-ing to the student than corporal punishment. Mrs. Austin Moyle, Pleasant Grove, PTA Council President, discussed dis-cussed the policies and purposes of the PTA and the local units' projects. It was recommened that all projects have educational value such as providing additional library li-brary books. Attention was also given to the music and audio-visual aids program pro-gram in the various schools. Playground Play-ground and activity program were discussed to promote increased playground supervision. A special meeting of junior and senior high school principals was held to discuss special problems arising from the separation of the two major school units. The problem of substitute teachers teach-ers arose. Principals requested and the superintendent concurred, that certified and well-qualified persons should be hired for substitute teachers. Their credentials should be filed in the district office. Principals Prin-cipals were requested to submit a list of prospective substitute teachers to the central office as quickly as possible. Much discussion centered around problems of supervision. Supervision Supervis-ion was defined as any activity that has as its objective the improvement im-provement of instruction and teacher tea-cher morale. It was pointed out that the following activities may be used in supervision: demonstration demonstra-tion of service, classroom visitation resource units, conferences, observation obser-vation of classroom activities, evaluation ev-aluation of pupil progress and teacher tea-cher performance, and cooperative planning in recreation and class-work. class-work. Miss Genevieve Allen and Miss June Cottrell from the State Dairy Council suggested the use of their materials such as film service as supplementary helps in many departments de-partments of school. Considerable discussion of installing dispensing machines for milk, fruit juices, and sandwiches, in lieu of confection-aries confection-aries was had. A committee to investigate the feasibility of the milk dispensing, unit was appointed with Quinn A. Hatch, Lincoln Jr. High School as chairman. It was announced that books for shut-in children, amounting to $50 had been purchased from the Leo Hansen Memorial fund. Superintendent Burton appointed three committees from the principal's prin-cipal's group. Each principal is functioning as a member of one group. They are: Lloyd B. Adam-son, Adam-son, Lehi, chairman of audio-visual aid program; Dan Peterson, Lehi, chairman of committee to determine deter-mine principal's, responsibilities in the Code of Procedures, and A. J. Rogers, Pleasant Grove, chairman of principal's addenda committee. A democratic group procedure functioned throughout these meetings, meet-ings, under the direction of Superintendent Super-intendent Alma P. Burton. Principals Princi-pals benefited from the sharing of experiences with their co-workers on the various levels. Future meetings will continue to be held, to enable study of pertinent pertin-ent problems essential to the educational edu-cational program. Beginning Tuesday, September 7, the office hours of the Alpine School District will be from 8 a.m. until 12:00 and from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. No business will be transacted between the hours of 12:00 and 1:00. Cooperation of the public will be greasy appreciated. Bus routes for school children in American Fork, Lehi, Pleasant Grove. Alpine and Cedar Valley will be the same as last year, according ac-cording to an announcement made by Frank R. Jex, director of maintenance main-tenance and operation for Alpine School District. Alpine School District announces announ-ces the services of visiting teachers teach-ers to its patrons, according to L. B. Adamson, director of instruction. instruc-tion. If a child has to be absent from school for a period of three weeks or longer, because of illness or accident, the parent should contact con-tact the principal of the school the child should attend. If the attending attend-ing physician says the child is well enough to perform school work the visiting teacher makes two to three visits per week for instruction. Mrs. Christine Yergensen, Orem, is the visiting teacher for the south portion of the district, and Mrs. Marcia Parks, American Fork north portion-of the district. If at the present time, a parent knows that his child cannot attend at-tend school beginning September It was stated that mental pun-is pun-is requested that the parent contact con-tact the principal immediately so the visiting teacher program can be activated. ' |