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PACAA Tutorial Program
Succeeds in Helping Children
by
Dale Whiten
In February of this year,
the Piedmont Area Com
munity Action Agency
(PACAA) and Jackson Pri
mary School began a joint
tutorial program designed to
help first graders who were
identified by their teachers
as low achievers.
Two times a week, from 4
until 6 P.M., 26 of these
students are given special
instruction from a retired
school teacher, Mrs. Nell
Thaxton, a CETA employee,
Shirley Bell and volunteers,
Adrian Hendricks and Mrs.
Beth Hearn. Mrs. Ha vis
Greer is the County Coordi
nator of the program and
oversees its total operation.
The educational consultant
for the program, Mrs.
Margaret McCormick, ex
plained the procedures the
tutors follow.
“We use only manipulative
materials, that is, we teach
visual and auditory percep
tion. The tutoring is not the
usual lecture type where the
teacher writes on the board,
etc.,” Mrs. McCormick said.
The instruction is really a
different approach. It’s sim
ilar to the open classroom
though the students receive
close, individual attention
from the tutors.
The class, which meets in
the Neighborhood Service
Center on the Indian Springs
road, is divided into three
groups with each instructor
having different activities
going on. The children move
from group to group there
fore being exposed to the
various activites.
And the activities are
varied. In addition to being
served snacks and having a
story read to them every day,,
the children might play a
form of bingo by locating
words on a card after the
instructor has spelled the
word. Or they might be asked
to name words that rhyme
with the given word and to
identify the letter sound that
begins the word.
The regular teachers of the
students are pleased with the
progress that has been made.
Lee Nelson said the
after-school lessons have
helped one of her students,
who was quite introverted, to
gain more confidence in
himself. She added he can
cope with the classroom a lot
better now because of the
close relationship he has
with the tutor in the small
group.
Another first grade teach
er, Annie Evans, said the
results have been good with
the two students she has in
the program. “They socialize
better and speak up more
since they have been in the
small group situation,” she
said. And Kathy Barnes said
her students in the program
have made considerable
progress especially in the
area of recognizing sight
words.
What do the children think
of the extra teaching? Lynda
Ballard, first grade teacher,
said the children from her
class who are in the program
really look forward to going
even though they have
already been in school
several hours on those days.
She added the instruction
has helped the children with
learning the alphabet and
readiness skills that students
who are not in the program
may have already acquired.
The director of PACAA, Ed
Walker, agreed with the
statement that the children
look forward to the tutoring
classes. Especially when
they get to ride to the
Community Service Center
in the big PACAA limousine
or in the truck belonging to
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riding in the truck is really a
treat for the kids and gets
them really excited.
Transportation has pre
sented a problem for some
children whose parents
would like for them to
receive the tutoring accord
ing to Mrs. McCormick. She
said that because some
children live considerably
far out in the County, they
have not been able to attend
the classes and added that
hopefully the program will be
extended to include any child
in the County who wishes to
attend.
Agreeing with the asses
sments of the tutors, the
teachers and Mrs. McCorm
ick, Walker said he is pleased
with the tutorial program
because “it is something we
feel will have a permanent
effect on the children
involved.
“It is the primary aim of
PACAA to help people get
jobs, get into better housing,
etc., and by providing these
children, who are already
behind other children in their
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instruction we hone a lasting
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He added that otherwise
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Walker noted that the
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school year, has been
provided by spending no
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Walker said there are
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in Pike and Newton Counties
also but that the tutorial
program has been operated
only in Butts County.
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