Fine Basketry
Added To
Museum Collection
Two ortwte Yakxitat baskets and
throe pieces of rare Attu basket
ry recently presented to the Ko
diak Historical Society are now on
display at the museum. The bas
kets were donated by Dorothy K.
Haburman of Ross, California,
whose family lived at Wrangel 50
years ago. She heard, of the Ko
' %
dxak Museum through Mrs Schap
smkoff whom she met at the Oak
land Public Museum last fall.
The baskets are nearly 60 years
oM according to infomation ac
companying them.
Also new at the museum is. an
album of odd pictures of Kodiak.
KAIHS president Donald Clark
todd the MIRROR that the Society
is interested in increasing its col
lection of historical pictures of
this area. People interested in
donating photographs and draw
ings, or loaning good negatives
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should contact the new curator,
Eunice Nestfth.
The museum is open Sundays
from two to four pm., and at other
hours upon request.
Kodiak Principal
On Able Students
(Ed. note: Below is an article
which appeared in the ALASKA
TEACHER, by Betty Springhill,
which we print here, as it give*
some approaches to the problem
of curriculum provisions for more
able students in the Kodiak Ele
mentary School.)
By Betty .Springhill
There Is no best method for
organizing for instruction in the
elementary school. The objective
sought is to attempt to place each
child in the school setting that
gives him a chance for optimum
learning.
Recognizing that one of the roost
serious shortcomings of our schools
has Men the failure to provide forv
the individual differences among
school children, many schools have
attempted to .provide special op
portunities for the intellectually
gifted child. Thd Kodiak Elem
entary school, under the leadership
of Ivor A. Schott, superintendent
has attempted for several years to
provide special opportunities and
stimulating experiences for those
more able students.
The curriculum provisions and
adjustments in a small school are
necessarily limited, but wherever
it has been possible and financially
feasible these adjustments have
been made.
In 1955 the elementary French
program was introduced into the
Kodiak School curriculum. This
was done to provide increased lan
guage opportunities for the more
able children in grades four
through eight. This partial group
ing of the more capable children
into these special classes has been
of considerable value. During the
first semester the elementary
French classes were instructed by
Mrs. Lucette Little, and the second
semester by Mrs. Simone Talbott,
a native off France, educated in
French Morocco.
Mrs. Talbott is teaching conver
sational French to all the fourth
graders, and from grades five
through eight she is conducting
classes selected according to pre
vious experience and ability of the'
students. These classes are offer
ed to the children who maintain
a “B” average or better in all of
their academic subjects. In ad
dition to the advanced classes, she
is teaching a class in beginning
French to all of the new students
who qualify.
Another curriculum adjustment
which is being continued because
of its success, was to select the
more able eighth grade mathraa
tics students and permit them to
take first year algebra with the
high school class for high school
credit, and then permit them to
take geometry the first year of
high school. These algebra class
es were to be in addition to their
regular classes. This adjustment
is possible because of the fact that
the grade school building and the
high school building join and
are located in separate wings in
the same building. The desuits
were so successful, with all the
students selected maintaining high
averages in both classes, that the
practice is being continued this
year. The latest report from the
high school instructor is that the
freshman geometry students are
maintaining the highest scores and
the 8th grade algebra students are
doing good work as the best
freshman students.
In addition to the special classes
in foreign language and mathe
matics other administrative prac
tices which are being used are to
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