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New teacher certification shifts burden By Ed Miller School teachers will no longer be certified by the state for five years when they graduate from college and pass the National Teachers Ex amination (NTE), Hoke County Board of Education members were told last week. According to School Personnel Director Gloria Williams, new teachers will have to go through a "six-year certification process" beginning July 1 because of a new law passed by the state legislature and the North Carolina Board of Education. A student must now complete a general education program and, at the end of their second year, nor mally, take a "core battery of tests" and achieve a minimum score, said Williams. . If the minimum score is earned, the student will then apply for ad mission to a state approved teacher education program in the college of their choice, she said. The student will then go into "professional studies" or educa tion courses in their desired field. During this time, students will be sent to observe real classroom environments and later to student teach. They must then take the profes sional knowledge part of the NTE before graduation, Williams said. Degrees will be awarded all students completing those re quirements, according to the direc tor. At the same time, the students will be recommended to the state for a two-year certification. Williams added that if all re quirements have not been satisfac tory completed, no recommen dation would be made. Graduates will then secure jobs in school systems, but their train ing is two years away from being finished The burden now falls on school systems to provide support teams for the young teachers, according to Williams. The team should include the principal of the school where the teacher is training, a tenured teacher in the same field as the trainee and a specialist in cur riculum, said Williams. There may be four people on the team but there must be these three, Williams said. A school can also provide train ing teachers with a "mentor" teacher instead of a support team. According to Williams, the men tor teacher will "assess demonstrated performance and facilitate the development and refinement of essential skills." "Anything they (the mentor) can do to help, they should do," said Williams. According to Williams, it is not the local board of education's responsibility to certify teachers. That is the job of the state board of education, she said. "The job of the local schools is to train," she said. When the training period has ended, the teacher will be rated on one of six levels. The middle level is standard, and that is good enough for cer tification, said Williams. At the end of the two-year train ing period, the school system is under no obligation to hire the teacher once certified, said Williams. At last Tuesday's Hoke County Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Dr. Robert Nelson said he would sign a letter endors ing the plan, but he added that he could not see how teachers would find the time to do their jobs and be parts of support teams or men tors to younger teachers. Cost study delays Carolina telephone meeting By Ed Miller Carolina Telephone officials say a public meeting scheduled for Raeford on June 26 was delayed until the results of a cost study for connecting Hoke County to the Fayetteville phone exchange is completed. No date has been set for the meeting that would let Raeford residents air grievances against the phone company, according to Ber nice Barrett, Carolina Telephone District Commercial Manager. According to Carolina Telephone Spokesman Fred Worn ble, the cost study should be finished by August 1, and the meeting will be rescheduled. When the meeting was originally scratched, a spokesman for Carolina Telephone blamed the cancellation of "scheduling con flicts." "There's a lot of confusion go ing on around here," said Worn ble. The North Carolina Utilities Commission recently ordered a cost study for establishing extend ed area service between Raeford and Fayetteville. The study is to be finished by August 1, according to the order. "We just thought we needed to wait," said Womble. "On our part, it was bad timing and bad scheduling," said Barrett. "We couldn't get our key people together," she said. According to Barrett, telephone customers should be on the lookout for notices about the rescheduled meeting included with their upcoming bills. The meeting was to be at the Raeford City Hall from noon to 6 p.m., according to the company. Supporters of the move to ex tend the phone service say it is essential to growth in Hoke Coun ty Raeford-Hoke Economic Developer John Howard told Utilities Commission members that "extending the service area would improve the tax base by making the county more attractive for new homes." In a meeting with the commis sion last month, Raeford City Councilman Vardell Hedgpeth told commissioners that the City of Raeford stands behind the plan to establish the service. The service is the number one factor which will determine future growth of Hoke County, Southern National Bank Vice-President and Raeford-Hoke Chamber of Com merce spokesman Steve Parker told the commissioners in the same meeting. Department of Social Services (DSS) Director Ken Witherspoon told commissioners the service would remove another obstacle in helping the poor and elderly of Hoke County have a better quality of life. 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A surgeon corrected the 70 degree curve to 30 degrees and the little girl is now in a body cast and doing well. Amy and her family will be coming home to Raeford on Thursday. In an effort to raise money for the family, area groups and organizations have planned fund raisers for the child. On Saturday, June 22, the women of the Raeford Jaycettes will be selling their own cookbooks at both Raeford shop ping centers from 9 a.m. to noon. On June 29, the women of the An tioch Presbyterian Church will hold a yard sale across from the church with proceeds to go to help Amy. . . . Around Town (Continued from page 1A) off, more than my class did when we graduated. So you see, we all think we have it bad and then we find out others envy what we have. It was good seeing and talking with the Gor dons. ? ? * A telephone call Monday to Mrs. Herman Koonce brought forth some information about the telephone system at Rockfish that Howard Wood informed me about recently. 1 will try to get it across the best 1 can. So here goes. She said that her father, J.W. Townsend was a druggist and operated a drug store at Rockfish. He also had a telephone system that had a hook-up of approx imately 65 telephones around Rockfish and in Cumberland County to Hope Mills. The switch board was in their home and the family operated the board. They were hooked up for long distance through the railroad line and the J.R. Boyd Telephone Co. in Fayetteville. The best that she could remember was that the system started about 1915. The costs for a phone was $3.00 per month and of course it was ex tra for long distance, as it is today. I didn't ask Mrs. Koonce if the system was taken over by Carolina Telephone, like most of the local systems were in the late 1920s. Mrs. Koonce also said that dur ing that time that a doctor was also at Rockfish. The first was Dr. Ben McGougan, who left for practice at St. Pauls and later at Morvtn. The next was a Dr. Williams, who left for World War 1 in 1918. He was followed by Dr. Nash, who later also moved to St. Pauls. (I can remember him because 1 knew one of his daughters). The last was a Dr. Rosser of Vass, who moved to St. Pauls and then to Vass. Most of this I didn't know and maybe it can be put down for a future history of Hoke County. Thanks Mrs. Koonce for this in formation. If any is incorrect, let me know so that we can set the records straight. ? ? ? With the hot weather, don't you think it is about time for the Legislature to adjourn and plant corn as my friend, Arnold McKay, would say! Fifteen Raeford students receive Sandhills honors The following 15 Raeford students made the Dean's List at Sandhills Community College for the Spring Quarter, 1985: Randall C. Barefoot, Ernestine Bennett, Carol L. Britt, Pamela J. Cumston, Linda L. Daniel, Terry A. Dooley, Ruth N. Doutt, Jack F. Frazier, Mary A. Huff, Jennifer L. Manning, Christy A. Nichols, Brenda J. Tillman, Kathleen C. Vincent, Melody H. Walters and Cynthia J. Wilson-Banks. We want to go home These two dogs were found in the Rockfish area and picked up by the county dog warden. They appear to be someone's pets but have been unable to tell dog pound officials where they live. If anyone knows the owners of the dogs, please let them know ; they really want to go home. The Hoke County Planning Board will hoid a special meeting on Thursday, June 20, 1985 8:00 p.m. in the Commissioners' Room of the Pratt Building. This meeting is being held to discuss the Mobil* Home Park Ordinance for Hoke County with various mobile home park owners and operators. The Public is invited to attend.
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