Ellinwood High School - Eagle Yearbook (Ellinwood, KS)

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Listening to the kids read is an example of working on a one-to-one basis. Here is aide Michele Haddon working with second grader Amy Hines. (Photo by Lorri DeWerff) Involved in the Christmas spirit is Patty Peintner. Patty was class aide for Mrs. Milli- cent Meyer, fourth grade. (Photo by Lorri DeWerff) 8

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Participating in a new style of clothing-knick- ers-are junior Susan Strobl and sophomore Shairlyn Casey. (Photo by Dale Hogg) This year monogrammed sweaters reached their highest popularity. LeAnne Detmer is seen here displaying this fad. (Photo by Lorri DeWerff) Andy Ernsting was one of many who attended concerts this year and bought a jersey proving this fact. (Photo by Dale Hogg) A fad shared by everybody this year was the wearing of fox shirts. Bearing this fact out is sophomore Carl Petz. (Photo by Kevin Hickel) 7

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Shelly Thomas assists Jeremy Brokar, second grade, with an assignment. (Photo by Lorri DeWerff) Looking at a project of the third grade class is Shanna Vanaman and class aide Stephanie Sturtz. (Photo by Lorri DeWerff) Grading papers is a big part of what the teach- er’s aides do. Shelley Ward checks a few pa- pers for Mr. Ray Fertig’s fifth grade class. (Photo by Lorri DeWerff) BBC Time Aides help teachers An added “extra” for juniors and seniors this year was the chance to go to the grade school for 9th hour and become a teacher’s aide. A total of 20 students took the opportunity to ex- plore this new class. Darrell Seitz, junior, said, “I really enjoyed the class, and it gave me the opportunity to see if I would like to enter the teaching profession later on.” The program was initiated when some of the grade school teachers in- quired about some help during the day for their classes. Mr. Joe Hickel, grade school principal, and Mr. Don Caffee, high school principal, met and started the program. Some of the different duties that the aides did for their teachers in- cluding checking papers, putting up bulletin boards, and working on a one-to-one basis with different stu- dents in their classes. Reading to the class was another fun job to do, as well as helping in the physical educa- tion department and drawing up charts. All of the teachers indicated that the program had been effective and that they were benefitting greatly from the help of the aides. Not only did it help the teachers, but it helped the elementary students in the classes. “I feel the high school aides were also enjoying the program as well as benefitting from their experiences. They all responded to me in a posi- tive manner,” Mr. Hickel said. He was referring to the notice that he sent out in the middle of the first semester to all the aides. In it, he asked them to write down some of their feelings about the program. As he said, all the comments received were positive. 9