CLASSES COMBINED FOR TEST Schol Wahlquist Junior High ! aha S h Hig _ Pursues Novel Teaching Plan quainted with it feel it is one|Mr. Wyatt said. — | by the Ford Founda-| { tion, the system used at the Weber | County junior high school is the} pony. one of its kind in Utah. , Purpose of the project being car‘ried on there is to integrate Amer- ican History and Language Arts into — one class subject. Teachers team ae ¥ Will Review | 250 students in the eighth groups and given 90 minute instruc- | tions each day. | : _ The first 45 or 50 minutes the ‘group meets together and is taught 'by the teacher who is assigned to ;one of the two subjects. The last half of the period the students are | broken down into three groups, each 'group having its teacher and are ‘given detailed work on the subject carried on as a group that day. _ The entire new teaching approach is to teach one subject while teaching ahother. As an exanfple while ‘studying American History the stu- dents can also learn grammar and spelling, Sidney L. Wyatt, principal of Wahlquist Junior High said. BETTER PROGRESS Mr. Wyatt said that tests run on the students show they are making better progress in the teaching team sessions than others do in conventional class sessions. —_ The Ford: Foundation has con$3,000 toward the experi- ment being conducted at the local school. Two workshops were at- tended by the local teachers, one during the summer of 1958 to prepare the program and a second last summer to evaluate the work. Mr. Wyatt all in Utah said that educators are watching the ex- periment. He said that those ac- Wahlquist Visit ¥% f 4 iS SA os PE OW ria ee aa es i me | Oe co ag t #8 % mm Lehre ca 3 meA aa ke ‘ f>* o oon ¥ i eA . fe WahlCounty PTA Council will visit rrow | tomo l Schoo High r Junio quist ‘ ; F oe Oy ey ; ; ‘ The Weber). WEST — | FARR D method. They are divided into two to Pay Group PTA Unique Plan grades are being used in the new tributed | who are working as a are Verrion Mordaunt, Mrs.| Leddingham and V. E. au “About | 7 Se riod Sponsored Sere or more subjects : | lat 10:30 a.m. . business regular a Following d by} meeting they will be joine ior a members Wahliquist PTA FARR WEST—The new teacher| team system of instruction, ‘which | is in its second trial year at WahlBe will , School High r Junio quist problem The discussion session. group will eat lunch in the} mem-| chool cafeteria after which schoo l. pets will visit classes at the shown to educators and parents at | | | two separate meetings this week. to. The system will be explained — two | nee where ‘combined during a single class method of helping to alleviate the ‘Dr. Matthew Noal, director of re teacher shortage. \ |Search and study in Utah for the _ They are also convinced that it|Ford Foundation, is directly in are is a better teaching method and| charge of the new teacher-team expe- will spread to all parts of the coun-| periment. He is be ing assisted by try when its worth has been proven, See erie ee FARR WEST—Wahlquist Junior High School is in its second year of a unique teaching team project \ school. administrators and others| interested in education in Weber, | Box Elder, Cache, Davis andpe Mor- ig counties. n This Wahlquist PTA NONI for scheduled is meeting ‘Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Weber | | | County Board of Education audi-| —s_— torium, 1124 Washington. sponsore d “The second meeting, universities. from the ise three ‘Utah cee spacial invitations to attend this ee ‘meeting ate being sent. to 4 |\ bers of the Weber County Boaraad‘of Education and also to the t, ministration stat ae L. Wyat eas said. pal, princi “school system, : “the Fonahenieam second ‘High year at Wahlquist the School, uses ‘combining : “Wahlauist. in the subjects thas in its Junior method two of are) Language Arts in the same class) Mordau ; nt,pO : Merou cy | ‘MrseRe makeg E. Griffinuctin ‘Leddingham and V.team instr up the teacherPte experiment is being class, beginning to- Mondays for 12 weeks. a Hours are from 7 until 9 p.m. and the class will. be taught by. | Mrs. Moyle Christensen. It will be on “Sewing for the Family.” All classes will be held in the newly equipped sewing room at the school. Public invited. eT 0 eiuiying American History and) . Vernon sewing night and running on consecutive same classes | about 125 students..each who wd FARR WEST — Wahlquist Junior High School PTA is sponsoring an adult aT ¥ | py the: Wahlquist School PTA, wt and_ ‘be for members of the PTA tepte. . will also be attended by sentatives TOT 2 Un RN re possible through a grant from 1) | Ford. Foundation, aan ne \ only sehool in the state W"'-" | | Ong out this particular progran: | Farr West School Sets Adult Class — FARR WEST — | | The ‘Wahlquist Junior High School PTA is spon-| soring an adult education class | be- | ginning Thursday and running six weeks on consecutive Thursdays. | - Beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the ‘school, La Verd John will conduct the class entitled ‘‘What’s Normal for Teen-Agers.’’ Mr. John is di- rector of pupil personnel and spe-| cial services for the Weber County School District. All parents of Wahlquist dents are urged to‘attend. stu-