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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 ANCIENT YORK LODGE NO. 127 Regular Meeting Nights 2nd and 4th Mondays Qualified Brethren Invited Jack Long, W. M. Aubrey Harvey, Sec. WORTHY ILLE, GA. the agency. Walker said 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 JfysFS [> "a S Maalox IwS vom mux **** W ii— Maalox 12 FI. Oz. 99 c Reg. 1.25 Limit 2 50oll g t A -U6 i' .4 Datril 500 $lO2 An extra-strength Non- Asprin pain reliever. 72 tablets. 500 mg. Roses Own Brand Paper Towels 38 c Limit 2 White or Pastels THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA classes, with the special instruction we hone a lasting impression will be made on these kids,” Walker said. He added that otherwise these children would proba bly get further and further behind other students as they went to higher grades and would eventually drop out of school. 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