Show Improvement of Instruction Sought by district In Duchesne County it Is felt that improvement of Instruction should be a continuous process Improved Uon means helping teachers to provide a means of assisting each individual pupil to achieve to his i maximum in not only the subject but also socially and in personality J We are seeking better methods of grouping to meet the needs of each individual We do this in a number of ways One such way Is grouping the children within a class or within a school so that they will be working with pupils who have the same problems or who are working at the same achievement This type of grouping is only for a few specialized areas since since we know that all children need to be with others of various achievement This helps them to learn to get along socially with the same types of people they will meet after leaving The high schools are striving to help each student Improve with schedules which arc flexible and allow for where it can be seen that the Nelson works with a reading class of fifth and sixth graders grouped for in at the Roosevelt Elementary Miss Hunt uses the Myton School Library for instruction in use of reference v y to graders nt Elementary fur teaching Duchesne Mrs selects small groups f over highly and has improvement in reading among for teacher imp Improvement in school teachers i with Principals consult regularly best interests of the student warrant The teachers improving in the types of assignments which are lit is felt that one assignment for a of pupils who vary in and educational background is not a good Better methods of fitting assignments to the pupils are being sought Enrichment of the subject matter by encouraging some to delve more deeply Into related area is being Another method is by different assignment levels on the same while still another way is for a class to work on a unit where there is a variety of assignments along with a common assignment for Many efforts arc being made to help teachers to improve and use some of- the latest methods of teaching which have been proven superior to some of the old methods The office staff serves as resource They seek better methods of teachings and presenting materials and then make this information available to teachers and The district principals come together in regular meetings where better teachings is the topic for research and It then becomes their responsibility to seek ways of putting this information in their This is done by individual consultations with teachers or in the weekly faculty Faculty meetings are held for coordinating the efforts within a school and for the upgrading of Teachers need to know what other teachers are striving to accomplish and subject areas are Faculty meetings provide for this so that education becomes on-going In faculty good sound Ideas which have worked for one teacher are explained so that other teachers might profit from Each year classes which the teachers desire are brought to the district from some of the universities In the These classes tend to keep the teachers abreast with the current subject fields and also abreast with the best proven methods of dealing with To insure common goals for all the new teachers upon entering the county for the first time are oriented as to what we are trying to accomplish in our instructional program within This helps them better fit into current programs and makes them more Carter works with a group of pupils in vocabulary building at the Nielsen teaches social studies to students in the auditorium at Roosevelt Junior High For some large groups can gain as much as smaller Teachers meet weekly in faculty meetings to keep up with latest information on j i i nutritious hot lunch for every is the aim of the school district's school lunch One thousand seven hundred fifty of the district's two thousand three hundred school children participate dally in tho lunch Each meal meets one-third of the dally nutritional require- merits of school Because this program Is partly financed from state and federal children ure able to purchase tills lunch for the low of 18 cents in the elementary school and 20 cents In the high Each year more children take advantage of tills hot |