SCHOOL FACULTY, AIDES TO SPEND DAY IN MEXICO : BOARD QUESTIONS BUT APPROVES LINDA VERDE SITE COUNCIL'S PLAN.Byline: Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Linda A set of parallel processing functions added to languages, such as C and C++, that allows data to be created and transferred between processes. It was developed by Yale professor David Gelernter, when he was a 23-year old graduate student. Verde Verde (vûrd`ē, vĕrd`ē), river, c.190 mi (310 km) long, rising in central Ariz. and flowing S to the Salt River. The valley supported early Native American civilizations and is dotted with ruins, such as those at Tuzigoot National School's teachers and aides are planning a 16-hour bus trip to Tijuana to sit in on classes and chat with teachers at a Tijuana elementary school elementary school: see school. , then view Mexican Mexican named after or originating in Mexico. Mexican axolotl see ambystomamexicanum. Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum art and buy books at a museum. Costing $1,600 - mostly to charter a bus - the trip April 18 will be a chance for the instructional staff to get to know each other during the ride and to gain knowledge that can help them teach the local school's growing number of Latino students, Principal Raul Maldonado said. ``We need to see where the kids are coming from to learn how to deal with them,'' said Maldonado, noting that about 30 percent of Linda Verde's 575 pupils are Latino. ``Our multicultural mul·ti·cul·tur·al adj. 1. Of, relating to, or including several cultures. 2. Of or relating to a social or educational theory that encourages interest in many cultures within a society rather than in only a mainstream culture. training is basic - how to deal with kids coming from a different educational system, how to make it better, so they blend into the mainstream. When they come back, the teachers will be able to deal with the kids and understand a little bit more. And that benefits the whole class because they are not having to stop and discipline kids and take time away from other kids.'' The trip was approved by Linda Verde's site council of teachers, other staff and parents. The council voted unanimously to ask the Lancaster School District Lancaster School District may refer to:
The teachers and aides are scheduled to leave the school at 6 a.m. and return at 10 p.m. on a bus equipped with a public address system and a videocassette recorder videocassette recorder (VCR), device that can record television programs or the images from a video camera on magnetic tape (see tape recorder); it can also play prerecorded tapes. . On the way to Tijuana, the group will view a motivational tape on teaching, and the staff leadership team will teach some monotony-breaking games such as loteria, a Mexican game similar to bingo bingo Game of chance played with cards having a grid of numbered squares corresponding to numbered balls drawn at random. When a number on the card is drawn, the players cover that number (should they have it); the game is won by covering a certain number of squares in a row , Maldonado said. Once in Tijuana, the group will visit Tensador Mexicano, a school for children in first through fifth grades. ``At the school, we'll be doing classroom observations, chatting with the principal, meeting with teachers and sharing ideas and teaching strategies,'' Maldonado said. After lunch, the group will watch a video on the Mayans and tour the Tijuana Multicultural Center, which has displays of Mexican art. Teachers also will have a chance to visit the center's bookstore. The trip will be videotaped. ``The board would like for us to share with them what we experienced down there,'' Maldonado said. ``It's a unique situation,'' Maldonado said. ``We don't normally think of staff development as allowing staff to experience and feel it. We don't normally think of staff as having that need.'' The Lancaster School District board approved the April 18 trip in a 4-0 vote at last week's meeting, with trustee Mel Kleven absent. About 60 percent of the cost will be financed with a federal grant and the rest from campus discretionary-use funds. Two board members said they had qualms but approved the spending because of support for local rule by site councils. ``Personally, I would have spent the money on reading materials and computers, but they were site funds, and they made a site decision,'' Trustee Greg Tepe said. ``I chose to support it. I support local control.'' Trustee Andy Visokey questioned whether the spending would benefit all the school's pupils. Apparently, he said, the school's site council decided the trip ``would benefit all the kids and not just one group of minority students.'' He added: ``Maybe it does benefit the whole school.'' Tepe said the decision was sticky Refers to an application or service that keeps you on a Web site. For example, stock quotes, glossaries, educational material, chat rooms and similar offerings give you reason to remain on the site, while it allows the company to show you more ads or proprietary messages. because the board has not yet adopted a multiculturalism multiculturalism or cultural pluralism, a term describing the coexistence of many cultures in a locality, without any one culture dominating the region. policy. District administrators are in the process of drafting a proposed one. Tepe and Visokey said they could see some potential benefit to teachers from the trip. ``They get a lot of students that move up here from Mexico,'' Tepe said. ``They will go down and talk to the educators in Mexico to find out what the education plan is like, so when they do receive these kids, they have a better idea of what students have been taught. There is some value.'' |
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