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1976 FRIDAY, MAY' 7, 1976 MARS HILL COLLEGE HILLTOP PAGE THREE Professor Learns New Education Technique tu- ted the of on at re- at rs. ,ir- lent ign s a ici- ma- in- jiic ili- inor : be [ of lave of the and ■ity leir .ni- .eda lior ijor .a. ; Ann lior from are ited ;om- ;ten lit- lend en- by Rebecca Stone Dr.Katherine MaCoy, associate professor of the Department of Modern Foreign Lan guages at Mars Hill College, recently at tended a six-week training course deal ing with a new con cept in foreign lan guage education. This novel technique, the Lazanov method, was taught at the Mankind Research Unlimited institute in Washing ton , D. C. The Lazanov method was developed by Gerogi Lazanov, a psychologist,psychia trist, and medical doctor, in Bulgaria in 1956. He was in volved in the study of hyperamnesiacs, people with greater than average memories in an attempt to de- termice why they had such unusual memory faculties. In his ex periments, foreign languages are used because the great a- mount of material that has to be assi milated and retained can be measured with little difficulty.Dr. Lazanov founded the Institute of Suggest- ology, funded by the Bulgarian government to continue his stu dies. His method is used extensively be hind the Iron Curtain, but very little is known of his findings in non-Soviet bloc countries. The basic premises of the Lazanov method deal with the fact that the brain mea sures an enormous a- mount of impressions, but much of this in formation is filtered so that it cannot be brought back into the conscious mind. Since we only use 6-10% of our brain, Dr. Lazanov's experiement ,have centered around finding ways to acti vate a greater per centage of our mental capacity and reacti vate the experiences to which we have been exposed. Another hy pothesis of this me thod is the double- planess factor; the mind sets up anti- suggestive barriers which make the assi milation of learning and knowledge more difficult. With the Lazanov method, the ■peripheral barrier is penetrated and learn ing is taken into the center of attention. For this learning process to take place an alert, but relaxed and pleasant state of mind is essential.The method must be car ried out in comfor table, peaceful, and aesthetically-pleas - ing surroundings. In this atmosphere, a class of no more than 12 students learns from 1,800 to 2,000 words in a 5-week course in a very pain less and enjoyable manner. In experi- CU* wi • All Honors Day Ma/ial.c;. prizes. * Medals, prizes, scholarships, and in dividual recognitions were awarded to a number of students and faculty at Mars Hill College during the school's honors day profram on Wed nesday, May 5, 1976, Faculty promotions were announced during the program which was held in Moore Audito rium. Iliey included: to associate profes sor, Winona Bierbaxam, Worth Booth, Betty Jolley, Betty Hughes, Bob Kramer, _ Jim Lenburg, Frank Quick, and Joel Stegall, to full profe jssorj Freddy Holtkamp, Earl Leininger, and Nancy Medford, to assistant professor; jon Crawford. Chief scholarship winners were: Brenda Ennis, recipient of the Ella Janet Pierce English Scholarship of $700 established by Dr. Pierce,a long time Mars Hill facul ty member;Patti Mills and Jon Riddle, reci pients of the Trues- dale Scholarship of $500 each,established by Dr. & Mrs, Leonard Truesdale of Ocala, Fla.; James Walter Heine, recipient of the Brazil Pre-Medi- ments with students who have gone through the Lazanov course, an average of 95% of the material covered is assimilated. After a one-year period, with little review, students have been able to recall from 70-90% of the ma terial . The sequence of e- vents in the course are as follows J In the first session,the instructor reads and acts out a dialog consisting of 200-300 new words. The stu dents then do breath ing exercises and are told to relax, listen to the music being played, and to pay no attention as the in structor rereads the dialog. While in a meditative or pseudo passive state of mind, they listen to Ba roque and Romantic music (Hayden,Mozart, Bach, Handel). In the second session, the students reactivate the material from the dialog by acting out short skits between two or three people dealing with conflict situations in which role playing, games, songs, and visual ma terials are used. In the next session, the skits ^d conflict situations are expand ed to include the to tal group. When the students receive the written material dur ing the third day of class, they are told cal Scholarship of $500, established by Dr.& Mrs. W.O. Brazil of Asheville; Phil Crane, recipient of the Taylor Debating Award of $250, esta blished by 11th Dis trict Congressman Roy A. Taylor of Black Mountain; Gary Bridgman,recipient of the. $200 Ralph M. Lee Scholarship, esta blished by the former professor of Econo mics and Dean Emeri tus of the college; and William Leland Fowler,Rostand Smith III, and Karen Christianson, winners of the Mildred L. Bingham Scholarship, awarded by the Busi- that it is not neces sary for them to re view or study it. Grammatical explana tions and memory work are not stressed in the Lazanov method. Some of the results of this method are. that people can learn large amounts of ma-' terial in a short time and enjoy doing it. Other advantages, aside from those in education, is that this mind-expanding and developmental technique helps peo ple to feel better and more relaxed after attending the daily four-hour class session. Some parti cipants that were ex periencing mild neu rotic symptoms (ner vous headaches, back aches) or states of anxiety found relief during and at the conclusion of the course. Modifica tions of the Lazanov method have been used to assist grade school children with reading problems and high school students with adjustment pro blems . Dr. MaCoy was pre sent at the first Lazanov training course offered in the United States and was instructed by two of the five Americans who were selected to attend Dr. Lazanov's Institute of Suggest- ology in Bulgaria. During the first week of training, she was ness Club Alumni-^As.- sociation, of $650 each, the HILLTOP a- ward for outstanding athletes of the year went to Debbie Wykle and Jimmy Graves. Over 250' students were singled out for recognition. This in cluded 79 recipients of the President's and Dean's Scholar ships , 30 students named to "Who's Who Among Students in A- merican Colleges and Universities",16 col lege marshalls, 37 Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship So ciety and winners of various medals, a- wards, and certifi cates. DR. KATHERINE MACOY an observer and at tended ^arious lec tures dealing with the Lazanov method. The following five weeks, she was an in structor-trainee arid taught Spanish to a group of psycholo gists, doctors,teach ers, writers,and edu cators. They wete all able to get into a relaxed state of mind and to absorb the material 'very quickly. Dr. MaCoy will be inpluding pprtions of the,La zanov method in her courses at Mars Hill and will be holding workshops and . con ferences in the near future. leachiog FRIENDS OF WORLD TEACHING is pleased to announce that hundreds of teachers and administrators are still needed ’to fill exisiting vacan cies with overseas American , Community schools, internation al , private, church- related, and Industry- supported schools and colleges in over 120 countries around the world. FRIENDS OF WORLD TEACHING will supply applicants with updated lists of these schools and colleges overseas. Vacancies exist in almost all fields—at all levels. Foreign language knowledge is not required. Quali fication requirements, salaries, and length of service vary from school to school, but in most cases are si milar to those in the U. S. For further information, prospec tive applicants should contact:. Friends of World Teaching P. O. Box 6454 Cleveland, OH 44101
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