Show Local school is featured in education organ Several pages in the January Bulletin of the Association of Secondary School principals were devoted to a Ford Foundation experiment which had been conducted at the High School during the school year The experiment carried forth by four Junior High School Orvil Mrs Jack Philip and Harvey was undertaken to Ways of meeting teacher shortage through the better utilization of time and energies of the present Staff and Changes in the curriculum design of and reorganization of administrative patterns the problems in this experiment were designed to determine whether the teaching-team approach to instruction and a reorganization of I the schedule permitting the grouping of pupils yi the grade in classes of variable and abilities for instructional purposes 1 better meet the Of more effectively utilize Hm time and competencies of and provide for the use of improved instructional materials and After the year's experiment an evaluation of the teaching team project was taken by and teachers in the form of questionnaires and structured These were Prepared by the Utah Central Research There was strong support of the idea that the program should also that there should be more faculty discussion of problems so that team members could not become a special clique that seemed to be favored by the Teachers were enthusiast lc in support of the idea that thru as modified by the teaching of teacher time and and an educational program can accomplished At the conclusion of the first experimental the and members of the teaching team endorsed the teaching team for district They expressed the desire to continue the experiment for another which is now being and If to try it out in additional I subject and schools |