Hopkins High School - Warrior Yearbook (Minnetonka, MN)

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A NEW CLOCK... NEW EMPHASI ' ST ■ THE NEW DESIGN hat changed the clocks .of Hopkins High School. No longer is each class bound to the traditional hour. Tho classes can now vary from IS minutes to two hours, depending on how the subject can be taught best. The day consists of 21 modules of 20 minutes each. These modules are combined to suit best the purposes of the indivi dual group. Classes do not meet every day. Some meet once a week and others meet as often as four. The subject governs the schedule; not the schedule dictating the subject. GROUP SIZE MUST VARY ACCORDING TO GROUP PURPOSE 8 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT MUST BE APPROPRIATE TO ACTIVITIES. S ON VARYING OBJECTIVES. GROUP MEMBERS ARE CLASS TIME MUST SELECTED ACCORDING TO BE APPROPRIATE TO THE GROUP PURPOSE. ACTIVITIES AND TASKS. STAFF MEMBERS. TASKS MOW- correspond talents nature an0 purpose.

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Modular Scheduling Project Oirector. Mr. Milton Ojala PASTE IBM CARD HERE DEDICATION □ THE ’67-68 SCHOOL YEAR will be remembered for the instigation of modular scheduling into everyday curriculum. One man shines out as the father of modular scheduling at Hopkins. It all started when the former Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Tanglen, advised him to attend the Stanford School Scheduling Project in ’64 and ’65. The seed was planted! This man, along with Mr. Weidner, introduced the plan to our school staff and before long Hopkins received a financial grant to become an exemplary school under the system of modular scheduling. It is with great pride that the ’67-’68 yearbook is dedicated to this man and his efforts on behalf of Hopkins—Mr. Milton Ojala.

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 NEW CRITERIA FOR CLASS SIZE THE LITTLE THEATER CATERS TO LARGE GROUPS OF MORE THAN 100 STUDENTS. INDEPENDENT STUDY TIME IS DEVOTED TO GROUP PROJECTS AND INDIVIDUAL WORK. LABORATORY GROUPS ARE SMALL DISCUSSION GROUPS USUALLY MADE UP OF 25 TO OF 10 TO 20 STUDENTS ARE 40 STUDENTS. CONDUCTED LIKE SEMINARS. MODULAR SCHEDULING is a system of teaching and learning that provides an educational process which can produce selfdirecting citizens . . . The world we live in demands self-starting, self-directing citizens capable of independent action. The world is changing so fast we cannot hope to teach each person what he will need to know in twenty years. Our only hope to meet the demands of the future is the production of intelligent. independent people . . . Responsibility and self-direction are learned. 9