THURSDAY. OCTOBER U. 19B2
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Changes in Teaching Methods Being Studied by Area Schools
By EARL H. ADAMS
Mail Tribune City Editor
(Seventh In A Series)
What changes have been
made in the educational
programs of valley high
schools probably are only a
beginning of future, more
dramatic changes.
While the use of visual
aids will continue to in
crease, and be of increasing
ly greater help to students,
and while courses are added
or changed to offer a wider
curricula, more dramatic
changes of the future will
be concerned with the
method of teaching.
These changes will be to
flexible scheduling, team
teaching, large and small
group instruction, the un
graded school, and perhaps
other methods.
E. R. James, superinten
dent of Phoenix schools,
said "the future for team
teaching, ungraded Instruc
tion, etc., holds promise."
The Phoenix district is
studying these teaching
methods where they are
now being practiced to help
determine whether they are
adaptable at Phoenix.
Studied By Others
The same forms of teach
ing methods arc being stud
ied by the Medford board
and administrators for pos
sible adoption.
In fact, a form of loam
teaching is being used In the
fifth and sixth grades in
many Medford elementary
schools. This is done
through partial depurlmcnl
allzatlon in which strengths
of the teacher are accentu
ated and his weaknesses are
alleviated.
Elliott Bccken, assistant
superintendent of Medford
public schools, pointed out
in a report on the team
teaching program:
"Fewer subject 'area as
signments for a teacher sug
gest a more effective and
enriched preparation in
those taught. High personal
interest and skill In specific
subject areas indicate a
high level of teaching per
formance. Guidance Aspects
"Guidance aspects of the
total program become
team effort with the home
room teacher as the central
figure in serving the child,"
he continued. "Results and
accomplishmctns are sig
nificant as measured em
pirically and hy standard
ized tests," Bccken noted.
The key to most of these
forms of teaching Is flexi
bility of scheduling. Willi
flexible scheduling, olher
forms of teaching methods
are more adaptable to pro
grams offered.
Flexible scheduling Is any
variation from the five class
periods per week in a spe
cific course. For example,
instead of offering typing
five times a week, it would
be offered three limes, with
seminars scheduled on the
alternate days. This type of
scheduling Is adaptable to
almost any course offering.
Team teaching methods
depend upon flexibility . of
scheduling. Team teaching,
in a broad sense, is utiliza
tion of the Individual tal
ents of a group of leachers
on a cooperative planning
basis for the benefit of the
students. A teacher whose
strength lies in n particular
subject can be belter used
to improve the instruction
in that subject in a team
teaching program.
Group Instruction
Large and small group In
struction also depends on a
flexible schedule. This type
School News
Kerby School
Six girls have been chosen
as yell leaders for this year's
spoils activities at Kerby
school. They are Janlc Mar
tin, Linda Reich, Mary Ann
Ziesche, Denisr Gilbert, Mar
cia Donovan and Vlcki Campbell.
Representative have been
chosen for a student advisory
council to be known as the
Kerby School Activity Stu
dent council. Purpose 01 the
council will be to take care
of the needs of various rooms
and to coordinate different
activities in the school.
The representatives have
been chosen from grades 6
through 8. Dawn Grunt, Mary
Jane Riggin and Tom Ruzich
have been picked to represent
the eighth grade; Scott" lias-
sen and Linda Mayfleld the
seventh, and Mary Ellen
Johnson, Mary Beth Allen
and Sharon McFadden the
sixth.
The third and fourth grade
rooms will take home a fire
prevention check list on a
competitive basis. Winners
will be presented a special
award banner and party by
the junior fire marshal and
their sponsor, Don Lewis of
Lewis Insurance company,
C'vc Junction. I
of instruction consists,
principally, of utilizing the
strength of an exceptionally
good instructor or a visiting
authority on a particular
subject.
Bccken said "the use of
large and small groups (will
be) to make greater use of
resource individuals, of cer
tain interest areas of par
ticular teachers, and to pro
vide small group experi
ences for young people in
seminar discussions."
The ungraded school is
just what is indicated. There
are no elementary grades,
the students are not pro
moter, or failed, and they
do not receive report cards.
Such a system, theoreti
cally, permits the pupil to
advance in his educational
process according to his in
dividual abilities. Ungraded
classes have not been at
tempted in valley schools,
but local school administra
tors and boards are watch
ing results of ungraded
school systems in other
parts of the country.
Questions About Program
The effectiveness of the
ungraded sciiool has not
been determined satisfac
torily for local school offi
cials in the few schools
which have adapted sucli a
program, and there are
questions about some as
pects of the plan.
One of the questions is
whether it is advisable for
the student to be under the
direction of one teacher for
several years, as is the case
in some of the ungraded
school systems.
All these forms of teach
ing arc related; they are
not feasible unless there is
flexibility of scheduling sub
jects. They represent major
changes which probably
will be used by an increas
ing number of districts,
even in the Rogue valley,
for their adaptability to the
individual district's pro
gram is feasible by relative
ly minor adjustments.
To Be Studied
Most of these variations
in the teaching methods
will be studied in detail by
representatives of the Med
ford school district, South
ern Oregon college and the
state department of educa
tion as part of a research,
in-service training session
of the Oregon Project later
this month.
Teaching techniques at
Lexington, Mass., and Nor
walk, Conn., will be studied
for their adaptability to
local institutions participat
ing in the $3.5 million Ore
gon Project. The project is
being financed by a Ford
Foundation grant for a
statewide program of school
improvement and new pat
terns in teacher education.
Teacher Still Needed
Changes in the teaching
methods will be made in
the future, but to what ex
tent is not yet known.
But whatever changes are
made in teaching methods.
in tl"; use of audio visual
aids and in curricula, they
will be ineffective without
the basic ingredient of the
educational process - the
teacher.
Qualifications and de
mands of the teacher are
steadily increasing, and
much of the Oregon Project
will be devoted to improv
ing the teacher as well as
the method of teaching.
Schools in the area have,
for the past few years, co
operated with Southern
Oregon college in providing
student teachers with some
working knowledge of the
classroom operation by us
ing them during part of the
school year as assistants in
the classroom. This has
been valuable for both the
school district and the stu
dent. Under the Oregon Proj
ect, however, the student
teacher will actually be
come an intern teacher, re
ceiving some salary during
the internship. In this way,
the student teacher receives
experience In class room
work.
Kennedy To Make
Swing Along Coast .
Washington - 'I'M' - Plans
! shaped up today for President
! Kennedy to make an inten-
sive campaign swing to the
Pacific Coast before the Nov.
I 6 elections.
A detailed itinerary of the
President's political travels
was expected to 'uc released
by the Democratic National
Committee today but the ef
fort firmed up this way.
On Oct. 25, iie will be in
Portland; on Oct. 26 in San
Diego and Los Angeles, and
on Oct. 27 in Oakland and
San Francisco.
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Small Woodlol Tdx Law Now Effective
Forest landowners oi Jack
son, Josephine and Douglas
counties have been reminded
by Farm Forester Richard Ol
son of Medford that the small
woodland option timber tax
law is now in effect, and that
applications may be made to
the state forester for classifi
catio nof eligible lands uncler
the act.
The new law is limited in
application to owners of 1,000
acres or less of forest land. It
embodies a relatively new
concept in timber taxation,
that of taxing on the basis of
the productive capacity, or
earning potential of the forest
land. Olson noted.
Timc-er oi. lands classified
under the act is exempt from
further ad valorem taxation,
although lands supporting
timber more than 60 years of
age are not eligible for classi
fication. This feature may
malje the Maw attractive to
owners of timber stands ap
proaching merchantable size,
who are beginning to feel the
increasing tax burden on the
growing timber, he said.
Interested forest landown
ers are invited to discuss the
law with Olson, whose office
is at 3286 Table Rock rd.. Cen
tral Point, or mailing address,
post office box 71, Medford,
or write to the state depart
ment of forestry, Salem.
Body of Painter
Recovered From River
The Dalles - IUPH - The body
of William R. Leftwich, 40.
The Dalles, was recovered
from the Columbia river near
the Biggs Rapids bridge Tues
day night.
Leftwich, a painter work
ing on the bridge, plunged
into the river Oct. 3 when
one end of a scaffold gave
way.
CALLS FOR OBSERVANCE
Washington -(UPH- President
Kennedy Wednesday called
for public observances from
now until next July 4 to mark
the 175th anniversary of the
signing of the U. S. Constitution.
Religion in America
THURSDAY. OCTOBER II. 1H1
C 7
Tithing Minimum Obligation, According To Old Testament
Bv LOUIS CASSRI.S . k.... .:v.....j i ., k:-..Tj i .. . .
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Correspondent
How much will you give
your church during the com
ing year?
Millions of Americans will
have to answer that question
during the next few weeks as
parish churches across the
across the land conduct their
annual membership canvasses.
Some nominal church mem
bers will find excuses for
refusing any promise of fi
nancial support. Others will
routinely pledge the same
token sums-usually one or
two dollars a week-that they
have contributed in the past
But those who take their
Christian commitment seri
ously will p;use before filling
out their pledge cards and
ponder, at least briefly, how
much they ought to give.
If they turn to the Bible
for guidance, they'll find that
the Old Testament is very
specific on this subject. It says
that men should tithe.
Tenth of Income
Tithing means giving one
tenth of your income. The Old
Testament docs not treat tith
ing as an extraordinarily high
level of generosity to be
achieved by a few devout pco
pie. It speaks of tithing as a
minimum obligation, and says
that those who full short of
it are "robbing God."
In the New Testament,
tithing is mentioned a few
times, in a rather offhand sort
of way. Jesus did not need to
tell His disciples that tithing
was part of the law obeyed
with hair-splitting precision
by the scribes and Pharisees.
What He did tell them was
that anyone who would enter
the kingdom of heaven must
"exceed the righteousness of
the scribes and Pharisees."
tvnen Jesus talked about
money - and He did, far more
than many church members
seem to realize - He carefully
avoided any legalistic yard
stick for calculating contri
butions. He sought instead to focus
attention on the deeper ques
tion of man's total relation
ship to God. In discussing th.it
relationship in many of His
parables, He used the analogy
of a master and his stewards
Trustee Comes Close
Modem society has no ex
act counterpart of the stew
ard. In Jesus' day, he was a
trusted servant who was
placed in charge of his mas
ter's possessions, and was held
strictly accountable for his
use of them. The word
"trustee" probably comes clos
er than any other in con
temporary usage to describ
ing the role of a steward.
Jesus taught that human
beings are God's stewards,
and must answer to Him for
the way they use whatever
time, talents and money they
may be given to work with.
It is conceivable that a per
son could be a good steward
in the eyes of Jesus without
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contributing a cent to the
church. He might, for exam
pie, give all of his money to
teed the poor (as Jesus chal
lenged one rich man to do)
and have nothing left to
pledge to the every-member
canvass
ranbernes
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Forestry Research
Projects Receive
$126,400 Grant
Corvallis-Oregon State uni
versity has received $126 400
for three forestry research
projects and a study on im
provement of forestrv it),,.
tion.
The Brant came frnm H,.
i.uU,s w. ana Maud Hill Fam
Hy Foundation of St. Paul,
Minn., which is actively sup
porting several other basic re
search projects at OSU. The
Foundation also sponsors
noun education programs,
high school merit awards, and
college scholarships for stu
dents in the South Santiam
area of Oregon.
The basic research projects
planned with the grant in.
elude a study of seasonal wa
ter use by forest vegetation;
nitrogen fixing plants and
Western Oregon forest succes
sion; and the chemical struc
ture of wood lignin.
The first two projects listed
will continue for three years;
the third for two years.
The study on seasonal water
use of forestry vegetation will
attempt to determine the dif
ferences in water use by var.
ious forest trees. Project lead
er will be James T. Krygier,
a watershed management spe
cialist on the school of for
estry staff.
Research on nitrogen fixing
plants and their role in de
termining the type of plants
which grow on Western Ore
gon forest lands will be con
ducted jointly by C. T. Young,
berg, forest soils scientist; H.
J. Evans, physiologist in the
department of botany and
plant pathology; and Michael
Newton, department of forest
management.
The orderly development of
forest land from one stage of
plant cover to another is
termed "succession." Foresters
have long wondered what
part is played by different
plants In determining succes
sion, it was explained. Prelim,
inary studies have indicated
that plants with an ability to
fix nitrogen, such as legumes
like vetch or alfalfa, might be
particularly Important.
The chemical structure of
wood lignin is already under
study at OS U's Forest Re
search Laboratory and the
new grant will make expan
sion of work possible. D. W.
uiuniit is ill kimi ,.a
project In which forest sci
entists are attempting to un
ravel the chemical secrets of
lignin, the substance which
holds wood cells together.
The special forestry educa
tion study, a three-year proj.
eel, will be directed by W. F,
McCulloch, dean of forestry.
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Prices effective Thursday,
October 11 through Sun
day, October 14 at Safeway
in Medford. We reserve
the right to limit.
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Atmospheric Shot
Slated Next Week
Washington - fllPH - The
Atomic Energy Commbsion
plnns a high-Bltitudc nuclear
nhot of less than a megaton
over Johnston Island In the
Pacific next Sunday or Mon
day. It would be the 30th an
nounced test in this country's
current Pacific test series,
and the second set oft at
high altitude.
The A EC said Wednesday
the lest "is presently sched
uled to take place between
9:30 p.m. Oct. 14 and 2:30
a.m. Oct. IS, Hawaiian Stand
ard Time, subject to weath
er and technical delay."
If not conducted during
that period, the AEC said, the
shot will be rescheduled.
BAN SLOT MACHINES
London -IliPlu The British
prison commissioners today
curtailed some of the recrea
tion of turnkeys. They banned
slot machines from prison
guards' clubs.
to please any cat
all tuna
liver'n meat
chicken
fish
meaty mix
kidney 'n meat