Yorktown High School - Grenadier Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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 Volume VI, 1965-66 Arlington, Virginia RICK VAN ORDEN Editor NANCY PETERSON Assistant Editor LINDA WOOLSTON Business Manager HARRY A. TUELL Adviser WILLIAM WESTBROOK Business Adviser J y wfy a fJ6 •r •LV’ r V- .r . Vi 1 lr j--' j- •7 4. f ! . ocas on f ie individual C w 5 Mi. t V, 3 J-

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To prevent the student from feeling lost in a rather large school, the administration adopted as its theme for the school year 1965-66, Focus on the Individual Student. Classroom instruction, physical structure of some rooms, student and teacher schedules, and many other daily pro- cedures were altered to aid the individual in the crowd. Team teaching, which had formerly been used in the Eng- lish Department, spread to the Social Sciences, Mathematics, and Science Departments. In this teaching technique, classes were rather large, but the students had the benefit of having more than one in- structor in a single class. Not only did this technique give the students the benefit of more than one kind of thinking and teaching, but it gave them an opportunity to work with a teacher in a very small group. The Mathematics Laboratory came into existence. One of the classrooms was set aside, and one math teacher stayed at this post each period of the day. If the students needed extra help or enrichment in mathematics, they could come from study hall or the regular class to work with a teacher in this laboratory. Science laboratories were changed, the foreign language instruction was updated, and social studies teachers helped each period in the library in an effort to Focus on the Individual Student. i'ORKTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL