Shawnee High School - Tecumseh Yearbook (Medford, NJ)

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Child Care Studying children by observing them in our classroom is one of the favorite activities of the Child Care classes at Shawnee. Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers have been the objects of our curiosity and interest, and observing them in action makes the classroom a living laboratory. Former students, some of our teacher Mr. and Mrs. G. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. R. Pullen, Mrs. Dougherty, Mrs. Columbo, Mrs. Cappsl, and some of our classroom students have shared with us their own children or those of relatives and friends. Our study of these children involves several objectives: to recognize the predictable stages of child growth, to understand the relationship of these stages to other growth patterns, and to plan experiences which will stimulate new learnings. At the same time our students are developing greater powers of observation and new insights into their own development as well as preparing for future roles in parenting or related careers. The parents are invited to discuss the care areas with us, and they allow us to observe their infants in action as the students form a circle around them to watch and to interact. It is easier to remember in the mouth stage when we can relate it to a particular child. Eventually, after learning about developement to age six, the students plan for and carry out a mini-playschool for toddlers and preschoolers whom they invite through their own contacts. The sessions might be for two to three periods, three or more days a week for up to six weeks. The Family Living Room furniture is rearranged and the room is transformed into a child's world of small chairs, tables, toys, and games. Students prepare the area and the activity schedule, initiate the activities, handle the children individually and collectively, observe them and report on their observations. Students become teachers which allows them a new role of responsibility, and for some, new insights into their own preparedness for the adult model. For most, it is the pause in the day's occupation which could be known as the Children's Hourn because for this time period, it allows each student to rekindle a bit of the child she f he once was and to enjoy learning in a totally fun way. 196

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Christmas Show sl Q SAC - Students Actively Concerned Caring, helping, and sharing are what SAC is all about. It is Shawnee's student organization de- signed to help in the community. Variety shows run by the students, organized by the students, and performed by the students are a way to help the handicapped and elderly make life a little ea- sier. The music of the performers helps a little girl with cerebral palsy clap her hands. It makes a lonely old man tap his foot for the first time in a long time. SAC is a highly respected group in the commu- nity. People know that this group of teenagers is out to help, not to hinder, and help they do. All through the school year SAC visits special places to help a small handicapped child cope and to give the elderly people the respect and gratitude to which they are entitled. SAC is a good experience for any member of Shawnee who would like to be involved in the community. Officers of 1982-83 Advisor - Sparkle Organizers - Colleen Hughes, Mary Ann Allen Project Committee - Romy Burkus, Michelle Drummond

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---41 TX-.13 I Libraries are not merely storehouses of the relics of the past, but meeting places for people and ideas, vital partners in our system of education. President's Commission of Libraries 'TW The school which thinks of education as something it helps students to do for themselves will have a large, active, busy library with students moving about, learning from books, from other materials, from each other - creating an atmosphere of people in pursuit of something. The media center is an attractive, two story, round room in the middle of the classroom building. Learning mate- rials available to students and teachers include books, magazines, newspa- pers, microforms, video tapes, listen- ing tapes, films, records, art works, and computerized information. Audio visual equipment is also distributed from the center. The media center staff is aided by student workers and adult volunteers from the community. The media specialists give book talks, make book lists, video tape programs, make slide-tape programs, teach refer- ence skills, obtain materials from other libraries, conduct orientation sessions, arrange special exhibits and events, as well as help find answers to questions and good books to read. It is an active center where the use of learning mate- rials is encouraged and where one can seek and find both information and inspiration. Harold Howe II, Commissioner of Education