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i. SO the little sentinel, Wednesday, December 5, 1979 From 1 Oak Ridge "i-V 1 1.4$ is: I Communication Commission (FCC) first class license to his name. Howard is the sponsor of the school's radio club, which has 25 members. 4 Eighteen of them take. turns as disc jockeys at the station's microphone.

The radio station, with its begged and borrowed equipment, isn't as much entertaining as it is educational, Howard said. Students who keep the station going actually get a taste of what operations at a commercial station would be like. They write news stones. They make careful logs of records they play, public service spots they announce and transmitter signals. The station, just like any other licensed by the FCC, is required to comply with FCC regulations.

F.quipment, though most of it is "old stuff," is similar to what would be found at a commercial station, Howard said. Time is carefully programmed, said Maureen Michael, program director for the station. Tune in after school and rock will blare from the radio. Tune in during mid-morning hours and easy listening munic will probably be being played to attract an audience of older folk. Beautiful music dominates after easy listening, and long-playing records will spin on the turntable blaring Perry Como or an instrumental.

For some students, being a disc jockey on the school radio station is "an ego Wendy Robinson, left, librarian for Oak Ridge High School's radio sta tion WGAG, keeps track of discs spun by the station's 18 disc jockeys. Above, an aspiring DJ gets some pointers 'from teacher Jack Howard, who says working at the station can be an educational ego trip. And that's exactly what some of them are in here for," Howard said. Right now, the station has no budget. It operates on about $200 a year made from selling doughnuts and cleaning yards.

Money is a problem, Howard said. Most of the station's equipment was donated to the school with some usefulness left. But it's older. And it breaks. "We are very definitely in need of turntables," Howard said.

"Any way we look at it, we'll have to do some fund-raising to get by with the transmitter. We may have to start putting Band-Aids on it." But the station definitely seems to have a future at Oak Ridge High School. Howard said plans are in the works to start radio plays and a little sportcast-ing airing the school's football and basketball games. For now, records spin in that glass-fronted booth behind the science class room in the 900 building of Oak Ridge High School. And WGAG, FM 89, is the voice of Oak Ridge High.

trip tor students. Gcorg Skwtl UttK Mntliwl From 1 Team schools, though, report" the method seems successful. But plans are already being made for expanding team-taught classes at the school next year. The entire seventh grade and a portion of the eighth grade classes probably will be team taught next year, he said. The four teachers pioneering Walker's team teaching make it clear they enjoy being a part of the program.

"Before, I felt isolated in my classroom," Stephens said. "I felt there were people in the school that could help me out, but it wasn't happening. Now, things have changed." "Team teaching has made me re-evaluate the approach I take to students, my attitude and how I was coming across in the classroom. I didn't really care before. I had been in a rut.

Now I don't feel this way because I have these three people," said Barbara Hester, team math teacher. tions, to junior high school, where students change teachers and classmates all day long, can be a traumatic one for some seventh-graders, he said. "We show concern. We show them we're not just here to throw out the work. We care about them," Meinecke said.

The teachers cite numerous advantages to team teaching. For one thing, if a student is having a problem, the teachers may compare notes, finding out if the behavior is happening in one or two classes or in all four. And, they claim, it's easier to spot a problem when they work as a team. Consistency in the program also boosts the morale of the teachers. And that is reflected in the classroom through their work with students.

Students know what is expected of them. Classroom rules are the same in all four of the classes. A student knows if he can't chew gum in one class, he can't chew gum in another. The rules have cut down on disciplinary problems, the teachers claim. Although curriculum taught in the classes is no different than what other seventh-graders in the school are taught, it all meshes together.

For example, English can be emphasized in geography by the writing of a paper. And math may be focused on in science by the calculating of formulas and the taking of measurements. "We teach them that a subject doesn't stop when they walk out of a classroom. They have to use skills learned in other classes in order do do their work," said Barbara Stephens, the team English teacher. Team teaching is currently being used in five junior high schools in Orange County.

Because it started such a short time ago at Walker there has been little evaluation of its effect, said Ed Hamil, the school's assistant principal. Other.