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Show OGDEN, UTAH, WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 27, 1960 PORTLAND EDUC ATORS eae: a Mette on § a baeteeioto ey over Weber High Scunalts TV system given by a visiting Utah State University professor. They are Harold Troutman, science teacher; Charles L. Jones, principal; Lloyd Williams, college professor, and Miss Helen ‘Schaper, director of curriculum for the Portland school system. The technician is Kenneth Manley, Weber electronic student. TEAM TEACHING, TELEVISION| Portland Educators Surveyrainmsg _ Enrichment Prog County’s A pressing need to enrich the aca- mand of non-academic activ ities on demic curriculum is one of the maj- the teachers’ time. ie problems facing the school districts today. | And one nation’s of the most premising “avenues to ageing this is through ‘more effecti¥@ use of the teachers’ time. ON These were the comments of Miss Helen Schaper, director of curriculum for the Portland, Ore., school district, as she arrived here today with four colleagues for a two-day study of the Weber School District. academic enrichment proeram. a. Accompanying Miss Schaper are Ciiarles L. Jones, high school principal and Harold Troutman, science teacher, and in Lloyd the Portland Williams, Reed science professor. district, | College Miss Schaper said school officials Taust find ‘Ways of reducing the deCee coals ecw thane “We must. cut out a lot of the clerical work and similar activity a teacher has now and give him more time to prepare challenging said. “The results have lead us to want. to learn more about better, lessons,” Miss more schaper One possibility for academic enrichment that Miss Schaper said has attracted the attention of Portland school officials is the team teaching approach the Weber District has been testing for the past this: possible means of academic enrichment,” she said. The group was spending today at Weber High School where the first closed circuit educational television system is in its second year of operation. | Tomorrow they will visit ‘Wahl- | quist Junior High School where ne district has nad a team teaching program under way for two years, _ They have also expressed an interest in visiting Lakeview Elementwo years. With the team teaching approach tary Sehool in Roy where the Wea master teacher presents a lecture ber district has instituted a unique to a large number of students fol-? reading teaching program using a lowed by classroom discussions involving groups of 12 to 15 students and. one teacher. Miss Schaper said her district has euarithented briefly with educational television. combination of the academic groupIng. ; and team teaching techniques. na |
