Sprayberry High School - Echo Yearbook (Marietta, GA)

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VIOLA B. MASLIA Special Education Department Has been teaching 17 years Univ. of Georgia, Ga. State 55, University GENE MC DUFFIE Driver Education Sponsors: Safety Club Has been teaching 15 years University of Georgia LISA MC FARLAND English Department Sponsors: Ecology Club Has been teaching 2 years University of Georgia RUTH MC MARTIN Home Economics Department Has been teaching 18 years Univ. of Columbian Univ. of Tennessee WALTER MICHELS Chorus Department Sponsors: F-Soccer, ECHO Pageant Has been teaching 24 years Westminster, Indiana Univ. ROGER MINTON Science Department Has been teaching 6 years University of Kentucky, Murray State University JANET MITCHELL Special Education Department Has been teaching 5 years Bridgewater State Teachers DAN MOORE Math Department Has been teaching 3 years University of Georgia MICHAEL H. MOSS English Department Sponsors: Drama Club, JV- Soccer Has been teaching 3 years Syracose University BEVERLY J. MOTTER English Department Sponsors: Prayer Group, Comm. of 100. Has been teaching 6 years Univ. of Ga., Cortland State Ff . 'nv-'- 'S -as A 4 4 Q- A dh-V .1 1,0 4 P f A FOREIGN EXCHANGE student Aunders Iverson and participate in the Foreign Language Assembly. .Qf -If 'JZ ,ig I. K . 'f BH' 1 QQLUII V' 5 Above: CHRISTMAS CARDS are made In foreign langu before Christmas. Students make cards in the langu they are studying. Above: GOLDEN VOICES senior Sharon Underw demonstrates how languages are used in chorus.

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SPECIAL EDUCATION The Special Education program at Sprayberry High School is broken down into three basic parts: deaf education, accelerated learning, and learning disabilities. The special ed program consists of thirteen teachers, four aides and two hundred to two hundred thirty students. Throughout Cobb County the special ed program is steadily climbing to become even better in upcoming years. The deaf ed program includes a Left: CONCENTRATING on her work, Melissa Loy seems to be very involved ln her assignment. Melissa is one of Sprayberry's deaf students. Bottom: SPECIAL ED INTERPRETER Martha Grisson takes a break while Becky McDaniel finished up her assignment. Below: WHILE ACCELERATED learning teacher Tom Dechman assigns a lesson, Star Student Joe Fox takes a break before beginning. E M.. av f Lf QW variety of means of communications including sign language and lip reading. Sprayberry is the only school in Cobb County which teaches interpretation. During the deaf ed learning process, the teachers and students undergo many frustrations. Mrs. Brum- below says, the students have many inner stresses. Sometimes they become exhausted watching my hands six to seven hours a day. Mrs. Brumbelow gets to know her students more closely because she devotes many hours of her everyday life to teaching them respon- sibilities. She learns their traits and frustrations at school and at home and helps her students cope with them. Another asset to the special ed department is the accelerated learning program, taught by Tom Dechman. This program provides an outlet for gifted students to excel in areas which are not taught in other classrooms at Spray- berry. Students may qualify for this program in a number of ways. First, a 3.5 grade point average and teacher or counselor recommendation will qualify a student. Other means of getting into the program are a 95M score on the standardized test or an l.Q. of one and three fourths standard deviations above the mean. Some of the courses taught by Mr. Dechman include Ascent of Man, Roles and Relations, Concepts of Evil in Literature, and Social Dialects, for which students can receive English, Social studies or elective credit hours. The special aspect of these classes is that the students are taught the hows and whys and the science of the subjects to render them more interest- ing and profitable. Learning disabilities and behavior disorders are also a part of the special ed program. Learning disabilities con- sists of students who have an average intelligence, but have trouble under- standing academic material because of a unique learning style. according to Mrs. Sloan. Sprayberry High School is very proud of the Special Ed program. Sprayberry has one of the best pro- grams in Cobb County due to the dedicated Special Ed faculty. 155

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vJ,.: 's. lf FCREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS WORK WITH WORDS Sprayberry's Foreign Language Department could be called the little department that offers a lot. When a student enrolls in a foreign language class they learn more than another language. They learn the customs, traditions, and the foods of other countries. The department offers students three different languages: Spanish, French, and Latin. Students can take as many as four years in one language class. The department, along with the foreign language club, sponsors Foreign Language Week, when students make posters one day, and have a food day another. On the last day students in all foreign language classes gather into the Large Group Instruction Area for music, skits and interviews with other students. Below: ECOUTE-MOI, Listen to me. Lisa Naftel and Anne Bray drill the class on terms in foreign language. Lett: SENIORS Theresa Frassand and Ellen Fowler explain about being a foreign exchange student to students during Foreign Language Week. V 2 Y. 2 v ful hltyf