University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 12. 1873
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3rd Grade Aids Research
by PAT BRETTENSTEIN Kansan Staff Writer
Happier children may be one result of an experimental teaching program in progress at our school. We teach at School in Lawrence, Glenda Richardson, third grade teacher who is using the program, listed such student benefit as a positive effect on better behavior and more self discipline.
The program, called contingency management, is sponsored by the Kentucky Institute Instructional Materials Center. Rick Garland, Lawrence graduate student who works with the center, explained that the program was a form of behavior modification.
GARLAND SAID that the "likely recurrence" an action by any individual depended on the consequences of that action. To encourage repetition of an action, this response gave an immediate positive response. This gave an immediate positive response. The continency management Garland said
Under this teaching program, students are given an assigned task. If they complete the task successfully, they are immediately rewarded with free time in which to play.
Garland said that this program was started at the University of Southern California. The program was then adopted on an experimental basis by several other universities, including KU.
To test the program, the Instructional Materials Center has sponsored training sessions in conjunction with other universities. In the programs, one teacher, one principal and someone else familiar with the curriculum are required to one such session in Salt Lake City, Garland was teamed with Richardson and Ira Williams, East Heights principal.
To test the program, the Instructional Materials Center sessions in conjunction with the instructional staff.
AT EAST HEIGHTS elementary school, the program is utilized by dividing Richardson's classroom room. One hallroom is designated to the room. One secretary room is designed as a work area; the
Closing Hours Announced for Spring Break
University of Kansas residence halls will officially close for spring break at 6 p.m. March 17, according to John Hall, dormitory floor. The halls will reopen on noon March 25.
Selected halls will be open to provide vacation housing for students who need such housing. Only residents of the University residence halls will be eligible for vacation housing. Each student will be charged $3 a night for vacation housing.
A hall will remain open for vacation housing if at least 18 people commit their vacations to the same vacation period or if enough people make commitments for an equivalent number of separate nights. Students desiring vacation housing must their resident director by noon Tuesday.
Closing hours for scholarship halls will be dictated by the needs of the members in the institution.
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Watson Library will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, according to the Library's schedule. The library closed Sunday, March 18, and will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 19 to 23. The library will be closed on March 24 and 25. Please resume its regular schedule on March 26.
University buildings will be open from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Leo Oustahl, assistant director of the physical plant. They will be closed on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. buildings will be closed on March 24 and 25, except for buildings reserved through the buildings and grounds office.
The children are assigned tasks according to their ability. When they have completed a task they are immediately rewarded and entertainment side of the partition.
After a specified amount of free time, they return to the work area for another task. In this manner their good work habits are immediately and positively rewarded.
Richardson said she was pleased with the success of the program. She said that children were completing more work and that each was working at his own rate. The program allows the children to complete their tasks and subjects that they have in the past, she said.
THE PROGRAM has made her job easier, Richardson said. It allows more students to learn where and when he must be spent on discipline, she said, because some students who would have been playing when they should have been working now concentrate on completing the course.
Richardson listed several advantages to the program besides improved learning habits. Students seemed to socialize better because they were given more opportunity to play in a closed space, and the program provided them with opportunities in their personal relationships, she said.
The children are also learning self discipline, Richardson said. They know that if they do not complete their tasks they are cutting down on their playtime. They are also told, she added, that there are certain things that they can do to protect themselves and that they cannot do and must decide for themselves what the consequences of their actions will be.
showed improved behavior on the playground and in other classes such as using a toy car.
One unforeseen benefit of the program developed when Richardson brought some "dress-up clothes" for the recreation area. She said that the children began making up costumes for the day, which costumes and began acting out feelings that they had not been expressing before.
SHE SAID that many of the children also
Williams, East Heights principal, said that the program also had changed his relationship with the children. He said the teacher was often the principal as a controller and disciplinarian.
"With this class I don't have to be negative." he said.
Twenty other teachers from eight elementary schools in the district are involved in training for the program or considering such training, he said.
WILLIAMS SAID that the program was expanding rapidly. He said there had been many inquiries from other East Heights teachers about it. Thirteen additional teachers in East Heights were already considering adopting the program.
He said that the program might have to be modified for other classroom situations. There might also be some problems objections assistants for the teachers involved, he said.
To be completely successful, Williams said, the program requires an immediate response from the teacher when a student completes a task. This puts an added strain on the teacher to get to the students when they are through working.
IN LARGE CLASSES this could require a teaching assistant. Richardson said that so far they had enough volunteers to help as assistants.
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Search Group Nears Choice Of Chairman
The new chairman of the division on biological sciences at the University of Kansas probably will be named by the end of the week, Charles Wyttenbach, a biologist and cell biology and chairman of the search committee, said Sunday.
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Wyttenbach said the committee had narrowed the field of candidates from six to four.
The three candidates for the chairmanship are Brower R. Burbill, associate director of botany and medicinal chemistry; and Albert J. Rowell, professor of geology and director of the systemsatics and ecology departments.
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Wyttchen said the chairman will be selected by mail ballot. Approximately 70 persons in the five departments within the division are eligible to vote.
Wyttenbach said the three candidates for the position were to be interviewed by members of the departments this week. Mail ballots would be returned to the search committee and counted by Friday, he said.
The search for a new division chairman was necessitated by the resignation of Ronald McGregor, professor of botany, as chairman of the division.
McGregor's resignation becomes effective June 30, Wyttenbach said.
Politics of Oil & National Liberation Fronts in the Middle East
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Joe Stark has just spent 2 months in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and has travelled extensively throughout the Arabian-Persian Gulf region. He will speak on the National Liberation struggles in this area and will present a slide show.
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Former Editor of RAMPARTS and current contributing editor of SUNDANCE. The slide show and Sheer's speech will cover his extensive research, done in the areas of the Palestinean resistance movement, Zionism, the Nixon doctrine, and oil interests in the Middle East as affecting the energy crisis and foreign policy.
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