g Herald - lantern - Dispatch 13 November '85

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Features Boys Choir RIO GRANDE - As a special yuletime event. Cape Human Resources. Inc. will sponsor a Christmas trip to King of Prussia Plaza and Court for last-minute Christmas shopping. Dec 13 The Friday trip will leave the Social Services Building Parking Cot 1 p.m. for shopping 3-7:30 , p m Dinner is on the individual Then the group will go to the Valley Forge Music Fair for a special i one-night -only presentation of the world renowned I Vienna Roys Choir at 8:30 ' p in For further information and reservations contact Midge or Gladdie at Cape Human Resources. Inc. executive division. 729-4902.

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From The Principal By Stanley Kotzen PrifKipal, Lower Cape May Regional High School

This is one of those times during the year when we all get especially gfadeconscious — the end of a marking period If you were to graph our collective response to grades and evaluations at the conclusion of each of the nineweek academic quarters, you would find that classic •'bell-shaped curve". At one end of the curve you wouldiind those few in the population who worry about grades all the time - and for whom a report card is only a slightly more anxiety-producing experience than daily tension. At the other end of the spectrum are those few among us who live oblivious to grades and evaluation of any kind. TIIKY COl'I.D not care less about how others rate their performance. But then there are all the rest of us who strive for success and acceptance. We want to be rewarded and treated fairly where our work merits positive recognition. We like good grades and the report card has become the universal symbol of exactly how others assess our effort. In schools it is relatively simple to determine grades. All you have to do is add up the test scores, homework assignments, class projects and participation grades, then divide by the number of opportunities the student has had to perform, and you have the grade NOW THAT YOl' have the grade, what have you got"' Do we have a measure I of how much learning has taken place in nine weeks? 1 Not necessarily Do we 1 have a barometer by which I .we indicate accomplish- | ment and growth"' Not I necessarily 1 What we do have is an in J dication of student achievement in terms of specific teacher expectations.

Youngsters make the honor roll when they have learned how to achieve at a high level across the board in all their classes. Some students never learn how to do this, and this creates one of the greatest gulfs that separate teachers and students. The gulf of misunderstanding. PEOPLE WHO become teachers invariably do so because they like school and always have. They generally have been good students and thrive in school. It is foreign for so many of them to see youngsters who take such a casual attitude to education which they have devoted their lives to. promote. Conversely, they are enamored of those students who court approval and wish desperately to succeed in school. They remind them so much of themselves. At report card time we continue to reward those essential virtues of responsibility and obedience We try io recognize individuality and creativity, but often these qualities are too hard to quantify. THE AVERAGES are struck and we have fairly accurate measures of student achievement in terms of teacher expectation. It is probably as important to ask students howmuch they feel they have learned in nine weeks or if they feel they have accomplished goals which are forwarding their plans for the future This requires a potent dose of self evaluation and many of us are not really prepared to do that. Too many of us don't know how we are doing until we see it on the report card Report cards are important. but let's try to understand what they measure and what they don't.

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Vote Slated AVALON - Action on several resolutions, including one to authorize transfer of 1985 appropriations. is expected to be taken at a special meeting of the borough council 10 a.m. tomorrow. The others up for consideration are to award a contract for $140,123.67 for the municipal radio system at the Public Safety Building; another for $54,080.50 for tennis court reconstruction, and for acquisition of additional dune gra$s for $960 O'Brien Goes To California WILDWOOD CREST - Air Force Senior Master Sgt Dennis J. O'Brien, son of France M O'Brien of 206 E. Monterey Ave., has arrived for duty with the 320th Bombardment Wing. Mather Air Force Base. Calif. O'Brien, wing defensive aerial gunnery program manager, was previously assigned at Barksdale Air Force Base. La. Scholarship Benefit Set WILDWOOD - The auxiliary of the Order Sons of Italy here will hold a rummage. cake and food sale 9 a.m. -4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Nov 22 and 23. at the lodge hall, 4505 Park Blvd. Proceeds will go to the scholarship fund of the auxiliary. For further information. call 522-5343. Bowers Given .4 F Promotion COURT HOUSE - Craig S Bowers, son of Marlin T. Bowers Sr of 304 Dias Creek Rd . has been promoted in the U.S Air Force to the rank of senior airman. Bowers is a linguist at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Ariz., with the 41st Electronic Compact Squadron. His wife. Dawn, is the daughter of George W. Lindholm of Rio Grande. 0 He is a 1982 graduate of i Middle Township High J School. ii - ' A IT S NOVEMBER A IT S GETTING l COLDER You can count on Grace S22-242I CRRCE j OiL CO. I 101 East 5th It North Wildwoo«N I 08200 J