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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1981)
Photo by Erich Boekelheide These parapsychology scholars are among 150 elementary and junior high school students participating in one of three workshops offered this summer for gifted pre-teens Program caters to ‘gifted’ By GINGER BARNES OIDiEJMnM The young faces peering out from under worn baseball caps and lopsided pigtails reveal nothing unusual about this pre teen classroom Not until the instructor begins to speak of flexibility and as sumptions, flow charts and electrons, does the observer become aware that these are not ordinary junior high schoolers The children in this computer programming class are students at the University this summer, participating in the Second An nual Summer Enrichment Pro gram for Gifted and Talented Students They represent the top 3 per cent of students in Oregon (although they are accepted from all over the United States) and have an above-average measured intelligence Nominated for their outstand ing abilities in general intellect, academic achievement, creat ivity, leadership and the arts, these sixth seventh and eighth graders will take part in two weeks of advanced learning and living on campus Education professor George Shepherd created the program a little more than two years ago when he felt there was a need for alternative programs for gifted children Some children want to pur sue academics in the summer and have only church and sport Happy Hour and FREE Vi order of the best fries in Town ThurvFri 2:30-4:30 (one per customer) Fries with purchase of $1.75 Hot Dog or $2.00 Hamburger Come on Y’all Say you heard tt in the Emerald camps to turn to,” Shepherd says ”1 felt the University was a tremendous resource ' To demonstrate the interest and need for his program, Shepherd points out that 96 percent of the students who at tended last year's two-week sessions want to come back Classes in everything from parapsychology to mime are, according to student evalua tions, teaching these children that an exceptional mind is nothing to be ashamed of ‘ These evaluations reveal what bugs the kids about regular schools,” Shepherd says "One kid said, Tm not afraid to be smart here ' They are with true intellectual peers for the first time who don't call each other show-offs' or apple polishers.’ ” Social progress is just as im portant in the program as academic progress, Shepherd explains "These kids are nor mally popular and are leaders, but are isolated intellectually Here, there is a large mental peer group from all over that they can share with.” Shepherd says he ap proaches the students with major concepts but lets them use their own insights to draw conclusions "We have kids taking calculus who haven't had algebra We aren't going for geniuses, but are just trying to stimulate their interests so they can deal with concepts — no matter what their background “We can provide more in dividualized instruction here that opposes the three R's' of regular schools — ram, remember and regurgitate." 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