Shadle Park High School - Sporran Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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ABOVE: Math instructor Mr. Harvey Lochhead uses the overhead projector to explain a problem to his intermediate math class. Both teachers and students used the overhead to show examples and explain theorems. 27

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Students Learn Math by Participating The Mathematics Department is convinced that a student learns best through participation, stated Mr. Wayne Eacker, department head. Math teachers therefore tried to get students interested in class involvement. Overhead projectors greatly facilitated such student participation. Now standard equipment in all math rooms, teachers and students constantly used the overhead to convey their thinking to classes. Mr. Eacker stresses the fact that teachers encouraged students to pursue math on through the advanced course because mathematics plays such an important role in our rapidly changing world. It also helps the student think problems through, a skill which may help in later life. LEFT: Math comes a little too early in the morning for senior Karen Somerville. She yawns as she listens to her teacher describe the properties of complete ordered systems in her intermediate math class. 26

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Adding Advanced Studies Helps Language Students Advanced language classes in French, Spanish, and German completed a study of four and five years of work for 21 students this year. These students mixed with third and fourth year classes and generally studied on an independent program in which they evaluated the language. Language enrollment increased 124 percent since 1959, showing a jump in popularity for the conventional languages. These languages consist of Latin, French, German and Spanish. Unconventional languages such as Russian, Chinese and Japanese brought a taste of Asia to many public schools this year. Second year Russian composed the only Asiatic language offered at Shadle. Using progressive learning, language classes developed a better understanding of the course. This system contains speaking and listening methods as opposed to the strict grammar technique. Students learned through educational films, tapes, records, film strips, and the language lab. By using these methods students gained knowledge of history, geography, culture, and economy of the land. Used extensively, the lab opened every day before and after school for student study. It offered the students the opportunity to work at their own speed and to choose the field in which they wished to study. BELOW: Learning the proper pronunciation of German words, Kathy Dike, fourth year German student, listens intently as Mrs. Loretta Sloan slowly enunciates the correct sound. ABOVE: Translating third year French into understandable English, Mr. Bill Via answers a question concerning the proper tense of a verb and its actual meaning.