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Chalkdust: Educational Fair Exhibits Provide Insight Into Schools’ Role
With a full month of school
now past history, CHALK is
beginning to meet up with
lots of competitive DUST at
school and in the com
munity. To those working
for or connected with
education, it creates a
beautiful halo, because so
much of it circles around
students. From the now
swirling dust at the
American Legion’s Chowan
County Fairgrounds, to the
powdery Peanut Festival
cloud hovering over the
Edenton-Chowan Band
Parents Association, to the
dust being kicked up on
school grounds, students,
teachers and parents are
deeply involved.
For the past four years
now, and since the school
sytem had an Education
Fair of its own at the
National Guard Armory, the
Fair Association has in
vited the schools to join
forces with them by en
tering a competitive booth,
representativeofeachschool,
for exhibit judging. This has
proved to be successful for
the Fair Association as well
as the school system. The
schools have been afforded
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the opportunity, through the
execution of their exhibit
theme, to let the general
public gain a better insight
of the basic educational
philosophy being em
phasized at school. How
teachers and students
manage to do it is amazing,
because every year the
quality of their exhibits gets
better and better.
If you have not yet done
so, you are urged to visit the
exhibit hall and see this
year’s fantastic entries.
They cover everything from
imagination, aspirations,
motivation, and inspiration
to fantasy and realism.
Auxiliary parent and school
club booths become more
prevalent each year, as
these groups show their
main thurst through the
exhibit’s themes.
From time to time during
the year, when teachers get
sick or have to attend
meetings, it becomes
necessary to call in sub
tituutes. The school system
takes price in feeling that its
bustitutues are as prepared
and qualified as possible on
these “pinch hit” day. To
keep the flow of education
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running as smoothly as
possible, Substitute
Training Workshops are set
Up, which substitutes must
attend to be “certified as
substitutes.” These training
sessions are designed to
help these people and in the
long run the students.
Today (Thursday) all new
people who signed up as
substitutes will attend a
workshop from 9 A.M. to 12
P.M. Jim Pressley, director
of instruction, will conduct a
session on “Good Discipline
inthe Classroom”.
There will be two more
meetings scheduled bet
ween now and the end of
November. Substitute
aspirants MUST attend at
least two of the these three
before beingallowed to
serve in thiscapacity. At
some time, they will also
have to “observe” ONE
FULL day in a classroom
setting.
Marjorie Stutzman,
coordinator of the
workshop, announced that
there are approximately 26
new people who have
requested training or
substitute certifications.
There are many citizens
possibly interested in
students and education who
perhaps would like to help in
some way, but feel that they
are not qualified in any way.
This is not so. If you
would like to offer your
assistance and have at least
one hour of free time each
week, you are eligible to
become one of those
“Special” people -a school
volunteer - who can con
tribute to a child’s
education.
Through the Community
Schools Act passed by the
1977 General Assembly, a
Community Education
Program, administered
through the Alliance for
Progress, has been
established here with Mrs.
Peggy Ann Vaughan as
director. One of the main
goals of this year’s program
will be to expand volunteer
services, initiated last year
in PTAs, to all students in
; grades K-6.
Beginning this week Mrs.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Frank Sellers and Mrs. A1
Howard are joining the staff
as scbool volunteer coor
dinators at Swain and
Walker schools and White
Oak and Chowan Schools,
respectively. These people
will be working diligently
with teachers on the
recruitment, orientation
and evaluation of volun
teers. They will also be
approaching church groups
and civic dubs in their ef
forts to enlist support.
These leaders have at
tended training workshops,
the latest being in Winton
last week, to help them in
their endeavors. Once
volunteers are found, they
will also conduct orientation
workshop and training
sessions for new personnd.
Every individual, in the
community is a prospective,
valuable resource for their
own special skill and talent.
Share yours and your time
to help students in
dividually, or by freeing up
the teachers time to work
individually with students.
There’s something for
everyone!
Much information was
gotten out last year con
cerning the state’s Com
petency Test Program. To
recap - this past
spring, all juniors in
the state took a “trial
test” that this year’s juniors
will take for REAL, the
passing of the test, in the
areas of reading and
language skills and math,
will determine whether or
not these students will be
bone-fide, diplomas
receiving graduates at the
end of their senior year in
1980, or receive a certificate
stating completion of a
course of study. However,
the State Competency Test
Commission determined
that juniors failing the tests,
which will be administered
locally on Nov. 1 and 2,
should be given three other
chances over the two year
period to pass the Com
petency test.
In the state legislation
mandating the test, the
stipulation was also in
cluded that it would be the
responsibility of local scbool
systems to provide a
program of remediation for
students failing to pass the
tests. For the mot part the
financial burden of
providing remediation
program will also fall on
local school systems.
However, each school sytem
did receive a “stipend”
from state remediation
funds, which acts as seed
money to get a remediation
programstartedlheamount
of money each local system
received was based on the
percentage of students
answering less than 70 per
cent of the test questions
correctly. Chowan County
received $12,000 to spply
toward remedial instruction
for students.
In comparison with
juniors across the state and
in our 17 county educational
district, Edenton-Chowan
students didn’t do too badly.
Statewide 51 per cent of
North Carolina’s students,
who took the same portion of
the math competency “trial”
test as our students, an
swered less than 70 per cent
of the test items correctly.
Edenton-Chowan students
compared with this at 56 per
cent. In the 17 county
district as a whole, 64 per
cent of the students an
swered less than 70 per cent
of the test items correctly.
Even though it leaves a lot
to be desired, Edenton-
Chowan was only 5 per cent
away from the state’s
performance as a whole.
To this end, a remediation
specialist, Valerie Sutton,
was employed to devise
such a program for local
students. Her services are
being shared by Chowan and
John A. Holmes high schools
In preparation for the
statewide testing on Nov. 1
and 2, she has been working
closely with junior English
teachers inthe system. Last
week, all juniors took a
locally devised diagnostic
“trial test”, including the
types of objectives and skills
in whch students need to be
proficient.
Once these tests are
graded, students who fail or
do poorly on the test will
receive counseling and be
encouraged to voluntarily
attend remediation classes.
Beginning Oct. 1 she will
conduct two, three hour
remedial sessions from 2
P.M. - 9:30 P.M., four nights
weekly. She will be
available to Chowan
students on Monday nights
and Holmes students on
Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday ights. There are
three times as many juniors
at Holmes than at
Chowan.
High school students are
also provided opportunities
during the school day to
receive remedial help.
Through the ESEA reading
labs at Chowan and Holmes
and the ESAA funded lab at
Peanut Festival Horse Show
The Edenton-Chowan
Band Parents Association is
sponsoring its Third Annual
Peanut Festival, October 7-
8. The Peanut Festival is
designed to "provide en
tertainment for the entire
family, and one of the more
popular features is the
horseshow.
Scheduled to begin at 1
P.M. on October 7 at the
American Legion
Fairgrounds, one mile south
of Edenton on U.S. 17. The
following classes are open
for entry that will please
both riders and spectators.
Two and under Halter,
Three and over Halter,
Showmanship Halter (19i
years and under), Roadster
Pony, Western Novice - Go
as you please (Open),
English Novice - Go as you
please (Open), Open
Balloon Race, Trail Class,
Open Ladies Pleasure, Open
Barrell Race, Gentlemen’s
Western Pleasure and Open
Pole Bending.
Also Open Ring Spearing,
Youth Western Pleasure (19
and under) Open Mail
Train, Open Western
Pleasure, Open Ring
Spearing, Working Hunter
Horse Under Saddle,Open
Mail Train, Pony Hunters
over Fences (2’0”), Working
Holmes, redmedUd classes
areestaMishedintheEnglish
curriculum, with interested
students participating for an
English Credit, in addition
to the required English
courses. In this manner,
high school students can
receive a double dose of
English reinforcement,
rather than being pulled
from their regular English
class period.
Then there’s the Teacher
Resource Center, located in
the basement of Swain. This
area has become a virtual
warehouse of sample ma
terials for teachers to
duplicate as supplementary
classroom aids for all grade
levels and all abilities.
There are books,
library materials
Hunter over fence (2’6”,
Working Hunters Over
Fences (3’0”), Fastest
Horse around the Ring.
The judge is Dr. Vernon
Bryon of Goldsboro.
Organizer of thehorse show
for the Band Parents
Association is the Chowan 4-
H Horse and Pony Club. For
information, contact The
Peanut Festival, P.O. Box
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and filmstrips
galore for teachers
to copy or borrow
for classroom use. t
Just as our teachers can
take advantage of these
materials our librarians
take advantage of that
which the state has to offer.
Just this week all librarians
in the school system went
to the Media Evaluation
Cento: at the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction
to look at material deter
mined by a State Committee
as being the best which can
e offered to students.
That halo referred to
earlier may appear a little
lop-sided and dim at times,
but once the DUST is Mown
off, the true intent has a
chance to shine through.
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By participating in this
phase of the festival, the
puMic will not only have a
an enjoyable Saturday af
ternoon, but they will also be *
contributing to a worthy
cause. All proceeds from the
festival donated to the
Edenton-Chowan Band
program.