_ THURSDAY. EVENING JANUARY | 14, 1960 asses COMBINED FOR TEST : WEST—Wahlquist Junior; quainted with it feel it is one| Mr. Wyatt said. as : in its aa year method of helping to alleviate ne) Dr. Matthew Noal, director of re- ; ’ | : . t teacher shortage. |Search and study in Utah for the) oe | of a unique teaching team projec |. They are also convinced that it|Ford Foundation, is directly in) where two or more subjects arejis a better teaching method and| charge of the new teacher-team ex-| combined riod. during a single class pe-| will spread to all parts of the coun-| periment. He | try when is. north has ao a a Tn onal is belts assisted by) Sponsored by the Ford Founda-{ tion, the system used at the Weber; County junior high school is the only one of its kind in Utah. | Purpose of the project being car-| Will Review ried on there is to integrate Amer-| ican History and Language Arts into| one class subject. . Teachers who are working team are Vernon Mordaunt, | Mercy Leddingham “| fin. as a| a ‘rs. aan and V. E. Grif- About 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 jone of the two subjects. half of the period the FARR students are| | -quist © broken down into three groups, each| group having its teacher and are given detailed work on the subject} 7 carried on aS a group American History | spelling, Sidney L. Wyatt, and) : /County Ae Mr. Wyatt said that tests run on} ~~ i to evaluate the He said that to and_ others at 10 a.m. of in the Weber Education audi- also be attended from the by repre-| three Utah. Juniversities. Special | i meeting ‘|bers of of invitations are being the Weber Education and to attend sent to County also to this mem- Board the ad- | ministration staff, Sidney L. Wyatt, school principal, said. The teacher-team system, in its second year at Wahlquist Junior | work. those will be explained Board sentatives High Mr. Wyatt said that educators | -all in Utah are watching the ex‘periment. will. be torium, 1124 Washington. The second meeting, sponsored by the Wahlquist School PTA, will | be for members of the PTA and| “Iwill school. Two workshops were at; tended by the local teachers, one during the summer of 1958 to prepare the program afd a second last Summer School, administrators ae Tuesday principal sessions than others do in conven| tional class sessions. The Ford Foundation has contributed $3,000 toward the experiment being conducted at the local teacher- interested in education. in Weber, Box Elder, Cache, Davis and Morgan counties. This meeting is scheduled for of Wahlquist Junior High said. BETTER PROGRESS show they are making) | team better progress in the teaching High system _ school the stu- the students Junior The that day. is to teach one subject: while teaching another. As an example while studying new Shown to educators and parents at two separate meetings’ this week. The entire new teaching approach dents can also learn grammar WEST—The team system of instruction, which is in its second trial year at Wahl- oh The last| Plan _ At Wahlquist grades are being used in the new] method. They are ‘divided into’ two School, combining ac-} uses class... -Wahlquist about 125 studying Language the method subjects has in two students in of | same classes each American Arts the who of | are History and| same class| the | period. | Vernon Mordaunt, Mrs. Mercy Leddingham and V. E. Griffin make up the teacher-team instructing the classes. The oe experiment is being made possible through a grant from the Ford Foundation. Wahlquist is. the only school in the state which is | pene out this es presrany ane