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48. Wednesday, December 5, 1979 An edition of the Sentinel Star Yea, team Walker Junior High teachers pleased with combined efforts By LISA ROBERTS to coincide with one another. For example, students recently studied Great Britain. In geography lessons, they studied the country's characteristics. In English, the classes focused on the works of an English author.

In science, the classes studied the plants and animals native to the country. And in their math class, students reviewed measurement systems developed in England. Students attend team-taught classes for four of six periods scheduled each day. Electives are scheduled for the remaining two periods. The electives are not team taught, but, "it doesn't much matter," said Anne Hartman, the team's science teacher.

"Because of the consistency in the other four periods, the students find it easier to adjust." Students whose classes are taught by the team don't change classmates. One class, with a few exceptions, will stay together and will go from teacher to teacher. This creates security for the students, said John Meinecke, the team geography teacher. The transition from elementary school, where teachers are somewhat motherly in their atten- Team, Page 3 Four teachers at Walker Junior High School are teaming up to get their educational messages across. They are involved in what is called interdisciplinary teaching.

The method was introduced at the school this year in the seventh grade. About 150 students participate in it. Often called "team teaching," the method correlates the subject matter of geography, English, science and math. Teachers plan units Oak Ridge dials 89 for learning By LISA ROBERTS In the 900 building of Oak Ridge High School, 6000 Winegard Road, behind a science classroom, there's a radio station. And it's the real thing.

It broadcasts between 6:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. Monday through Friday. Its transmitter a model dating back to 1947 boosts the station's signal enough for it to be heard within a six-mile radius of the school. All you have to do is turn your radio to 89 on its FM dial.

That's WGAG Green and Gold radio. Appropriately, those are the school's colors. The station has operated since November 1977 under the direction of Jack Howard, a physics teacher who happened to be in the right place at the right time with a Federal Oak Ridge, Page 3 ITJFJ GMrg Sknth HttK aanliiwl Maureen Michael, program director of WGAG, takes her turn behind the microphone. Columbia Elementary marks reading day with free books Page 6 Calendar 15 Classified 22 Engagements 18 Go Guide 5 Legal Review Peikin 14 Sports 20 Wild 'n Tame 4 Weatherman, Santa combine their efforts for Union Park parade 16.