OCTOBER 20, 1978 PAGE 7
ew Teachers Are Learning the Rapes
Ms. Billie Brown - Grade 5
Laura Fuentes - Grade 4
Laura Fuentes didn’t know
she was going to be a teacher
until she went to college. But she
seems to be happy with her work.
“It gets better every day,” she
says.
Getting all of her students up
to grade level is one of Laura’s
goals. Her feelings are too many
students are in the sixth grade
’and Junior High that really
^shouldn’t be there. She would
like to prepare them so when
they’re in Junior High, they’ll be
up with the other students, and
not still at the grade school level.
Another goal set by Laura is
to develop a positive self-image
¿within the students.
The only problem Laura will
confess she’s faced so far is
classroom control or discipline
among the students. “I started
ou^
nice admitted the first-
year teacher. ‘Tm not a discipli
nary person.
Mrs. Fuentes is glad to be
teaching at Warm Springs Grade
School because she wanted to be
here. “I was happy when I got
my job here.”
When asked how does she
like teaching, Laura replied,
“It’s a lot more work than I
thought.” The “work”
Mrs.
Fuentes talks about is correcting
papers in the evening and on
weekends. But to Laura, “things
have been pretty good.”
The twenty-three year old
teacher received her teaching
degree at the University of
Oregon. Fuentes is from Madras
where she was formerly a gro
cery clerk.
Community Calendar
October
21-22 St. Patrick’s Cowdeo in Madras
28-29 All Indian Rodeo in Nixon, Nevada
31
Halloween (trick or treat and carnival at CC)
'November
All Indian Rodeo in Warm Springs (OICA)
4
District meeting Simnasho longhouse
General Election - Vote at Teen Club
Veterans Day (observed) No school (509-J)
10
9-10 National American Indian Cattleman’s Association Conven
tion at Kah-Nee-Ta
MHS District Volleyball tournament in Burns, Oregon
fi
4 & 18 Patchworkshop at Adult Learning Center
23-25 Indian National Finals rodeo in Salt Lake City, Utah
NAIWA NEWS
Marie is returning
Marie Calica, President of
the Oregon chapter of the North
American Indian Womens Asso
ciation (NAIWA) recently was
appointed by Hildreth Venegas
NAIWA National president, to
serve on the committee for the
“International Year of the Child
1979”, which is the coming years
theme for NAIWA.
today
(October 20) from Aberdeen,
South Dakota, where she attend
ed a planning meeting, to devel
op projects, and to backup the
1979 NAIWA theme. The commit
tee also discussed the 1979
NAIWA National conference to
be held in Yakima, Washington,
June 18-20, 1979.
When school got underway in
the first week of September, Ms.
Brown was teaching both fourth
and fifth grades at the Warm
Springs Grade School.
The reason for this, ex
plains Ms. Brown, is because
more fifth and sixth graders
were expected. But because the
students anticipated failed to
appear for some reason or an
other, the other grades were di
vided and Brown has only the
fifth graders now.
“It’s just like the first week
of school all over again,” said
Brown of the change. “But
everything will be great eventu
ally,” she predicted.
This is Billie’s first time she
had only one grade in a class
room and she says, “I don’t know
if it’s nice, but it’s different.”
Before Brown came to In
dian country she taught for four
years in Harney County where
she also had a mixture of grades.
“I like teaching,”
Billie
proudly admits. “I have enjoyed
every room I had. I like the kids
and I like what I’m doing. Only
thing I don’t like is the field
burning,” commented the tea
cher.
Billie doesn’t have any goals
set yet, but she said she would
like her classroom to work to
gether. “I think we could do a lot
more if we get together as a
group,” is her thinking. Instead
of seeing the same ones answer
questions she would like to see
the entire classroom participat-
ing, such as in discussions, read
ing, etc.
Brown hasn’t had any real
problems yet except her students
are a little shy to answer. “But
that’s normal because they don’t
know me,” answered Brown.
Because she was raised in a
teaching family, Ms. Brown
didn’t think she was going to be a
teacher. Since she wasn’t happy
with what she was doing, she
decided she needed a change.
For nine years Billie was
working in an automotive parts
company in inventory control.
The job wasn’t satisfactory with
her so now she is teaching and
she thinks this is where she’ll
stay.
Denver Sensibaugh - Grade 4
‘Tve always liked this area ■
because it offers recreation,”
said Denver Sensibaugh, fourth
grade teacher at Warm Springs.
“We (different certified teach
ers) were interviewed for differ
ent schools. I wanted to be placed
somewhere in Central Oregon.”
To be a teacher was Den
ver’s goal for the last three
years. “My aim was towards
teaching,” stated the youthful
22-year old teacher.
Now that he completed his
first goal, Denver has set goals
for himself and his students.
Denver would like to have
his students up to fourth grade
level so they’ll be ready for
Junior High. “If that goal isn’t
reached I hope they get the
basics. I think they need more of
the basic education. I want them
to be confident in math and
reading. I’d like to encourage
them to read on their own. I’d
like them to learn to like to learn.
It seems that self-motivation is
low. It’s hard to get them to go. I
like my students to enjoy learn
ing,” said the fourth grade
teacher of his goals.
“I feel I can really accomp
lish something,” beamed Sensi
baugh.
“Discipline hasn’t been too
much of a problem. I consider
myself strict,” said Denver in a
half-stern voice. “I’m proud of
my students already,” he said
about his well disciplined stu
dents.
Denver says he will stay at
Warm Springs Grade School if he
feels that he’s making a contri
bution. But he also considered
taking a year off to vacation and
travel, since he’s “fresh out of
school.”
The University of Oregon
graduate said he would like to
take some time out and go in the
wilderness and just hike around.
In the winter time he would like
to go to ski resorts. During the
summer he would like to hike
along the Skyline trail. In the
fall, he would like to go to
Oklahoma and visit his grand
parents. He said he’d also like to
tour the Mideastern
United
'States with his brother.
Denver’s hobbies are skiing
and hiking, most outdoor activi
ties, most sports, some micro
filming (which he would like to
use in his classroom), and study
ing the Bible.