Guidance Department Year in Review 1970-71
The year highlighted extensive guidance services aimed at helping individual students. Group guidance for seventh graders, limited eighth grade participation, and May field trips to the Senior High School complemented testing programs and parent orientations. Staffing exceeded recommended ratios, prompting calls for additional counselors, while college reps visited and transcripts rose. Home study and staff meetings supported cross-building coordination as the department faced ongoing challenges and future plans.
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Stamford
Special Education Program At Mt Anthony Schools
Thirty students receive special education in Mt Anthony Union High School classes, fourteen in junior high, sixteen in senior high. Funded by the Bennington School District through the state, the program emphasizes basic academics, work habits, social attitudes, and accomplishment. Students also take regular courses such as physical education and home economics, with many electives available at the senior high. Cooperation among administration, staff, and teachers supports a beneficial program for these students.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
Bennington
Special Education
Mathematics Department Signals Broad Access To Math Training
The department outlines an adaptive program to provide each student with mathematics training suited to aptitude and interest, grouping classes by ability in junior high and senior high. It notes ongoing experiments with performance criteria in Algebra II, honors graduates matching sophomores in Geometry, and a record high for the Annual UVM Prize Examination with 83 students participating. Planning calls for educational computer facilities and a calculus course for advanced seniors in 1973 1974, potentially under AP.
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