BONNEVILLE UNISERV

18th Annual Bonneville Bucket
GOLF TOURNAMENT
For Alpine, Carbon, Nebo & Provo Educators!

June 1st, 7:30 a.m. at
Sleepy Ridge Golf Course
700 Sleepy Ridge Drive, Orem
(1000 South Geneva Road)

Don’t miss out on your chance to play golf with fellow teachers, receive awards, get some grub and win prizes, prizes and more prizes!

o Shotgun Start – Best Ball Tournament
o Individual players may register and be pooled into foursomes
o Complimentary autographed team photos with retired pro golfer Billy Casper
o $50 per person includes: entry fee, green fee, cart, prizes and Kids Cause donations
o Free Range Balls available before tournament starts
o Bring $ for Mulligans and Raffle Tickets
o Prizes available at every hole
o After Tournament: Awards, Prizes, Free Lunch and Raffles
o Deadline to register is May 1st forms must be turned into Bonneville UniServ

For tournament questions call:
Bonneville UniServ
39 S. 400 W., Orem, UT 84058
801-224-2055

All proceeds go to the Kids Cause Foundation

Detach and return to Bonneville UniServ with payment by May 1st, 2009

18th Annual Bonneville Bucket – June 1st
GOLF TOURNAMENT
ENTRY FORM

$50 Covers: Fees, cart, prizes & Kids Cause donation

Name________________District___________School________

Address______________________________Phone_________

Foursome Preference _________________ ________________
_________________ ________________
INDIVIDUAL PLAYER (will be placed in foursome)_____________

Dear NEA Member,

Greetings! There are many new ideas out there to help teachers. NEA has created a web-site called “Works-4-Me” which are tried and true teaching hints suggested by NEA members. Each week you will receive an e-mail with six helpful (and short) hints to help you in your teaching. They will fall under the following categories:

Teaching Techniques
Content
Getting Organized
Managing Your Classroom
Relationships
Using Technology

In addition, you will get information about your NEA Member Benefits that are available to you through your membership in the Association. Click on the link or visit http://www.neamb.com/.

Teaching Techniques
Student Control of Learning
"I design an activity that offers opportunity for personal expression and that will require students to use a small piece of information that they DON'T have, such as a vocabulary word or a verb tense. Once they realize they need to know that, they will want to learn it because it has become their decision to learn it, not mine. Things acquired in this way seem to stick much better."

Content
Reading in the Halls
"For Read Across America, we took time at the end of the day and every single student and teacher sat in the hallway and read for thirty minutes. It was awesome! Our principal feels that we should do this every week. I hope we can do that. It was wonderful!"

Getting Organized
Extra Copy Box
"I frequently have students absent, leaving my room for music lessons, calls to the office, nurse, etc. I have a box in my room labeled extra copies. After I pass out worksheets, I put 10 extra copies in the box for students to use. When a student comes back to my room and notices we are working on a sheet he/she doesn't have, they know to go to the extra copy box and get the sheet. I post all assignments on my backboard so they could check to see what they missed and do not have. I leave the assignments up for two weeks. This has eliminated them interrupting class to ask for a worksheet and makes them responsible for catching up on work they missed. Frequently students may ask to recopy a worksheet because it is sloppy and they want to do it over, I just tell them to go to the box and get another copy. This also instills pride in their work."

Managing Your Classroom
Group Work
"When choosing groups, I tell my students that when they are working they will not always be working with their best friend. I remind them that an important part of class is learning how to work in a group."

Stick Grouping
"I vary my classroom groups by greeting each student at the door with a craft stick. The tips of the sticks are color coded according to the area of the room they must go to or the activity they must work on first. This allows for a differentiation in grouping. The students really like this method and it's very simple to control."

Relationships
Reflections on the Quarter Past
"When report card time approaches, I ask my students, without submitting their names, to reflect and write short notes on what to change, delete and add to the class. Sometimes students have insight that teachers forget to consider. Their comments help me improve my lessons and teaching techniques as well as see myself through their eyes. This gives my students ownership and gives me some grounding."

Using Technology
Movie Night
"I add a blank tape to my list of supplies at the beginning of the year. The students and I use a digital camera to take pictures of classroom activities all year. We use Photo Studio software to download the pictures to videotape and can even put music to accompany these pictures. Our year ends with a class movie night. Parents and students come view our class memory tape. Everyone enjoys the tape tremendously. I make individual copies on the blank tapes students brought in at the beginning of the year so all students have their own copies. It is a wonderful way to capture and celebrate student accomplishments."

Representative Patrick Painter, Senator David Hinkins, Representative Christine Watkins, and retired Senator Mike Dmitrich smile after the House Representatives voted to designate Highway 6 to the Mike Dmitrich Highway.

Bonneville Welcomes Back Former Director

December 1, 2008, former Bonneville UniServ Director Christine (Chris) Watkins returned to fill a vacancy in the office. Chris retired and returned to teaching for one year in the Carbon School District. She then became the elementary principal at Pinnacle Canyon Academy in Price. Chris believes that the two and half year hiatus gave her a better understanding of what teachers are facing today. As a principal she also gained an appreciation of the pressures that administrators have. “I loved going back as a special education teacher, but I really enjoyed leading teachers and working with all of the students as an administrator.”
Last March Chris decided to run for the Utah State Legislature for District 69. District 69 encompasses most of Carbon County, Green River in Emery County, part of the west side of Grand County, all of San Juan County and a small portion of Wayne County. Chris had to make it through the State Democratic Convention, she did, and then she had a Primary Race, she won that race. Chris continued to campaign very hard and on November 4, 2008, she was victorious. After a few weeks she realized that winning this office was truly a “life changing event” and she knew she could not be an effective educational leader being away from school. She resigned her position as principal and was fortunate to be able to come back to the Bonneville UniServ.
Chris is very happy to be back serving teachers and public education. One of her main assignments is membershipping and she is asking Association Reps. to give her a call or email (chris@bonneville.org) and she will gladly come to a faculty meeting or come to any school to talk individually with any member or potential member. “I have been a member of UEA my whole professional career and believe in public education and love advocating for public school teachers.”