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Betty Wiebe currently teaches grade five in Three Hills, Alberta.
Prior to that she taught for eight years in the Fort Vermilion School
Division. She has won several teaching awards, including an Alberta
Excellence in Teaching Award in 1992. She discovered Blended Sound-Sight
in 1987 when she attended Mrs. Ingham's course in Grouard. She
immediately put it to use in her classroom. Soon she was sharing her
ideas with other teachers in her school, then with other schools. In
1994, she moved to Three Hills to be in a more central location. Since
then she has been very busy teaching this method to teachers across the
province, as well in Saskatchewan. Today she teaches four days a week
and conducts writing workshops on Fridays, weekends or anytime anyone is
willing to listen.
Mrs. Ingham began her teaching career in Saskatchewan in the early
1930's. She taught in one-room schoolhouses, grades 1-10 for a number of
years. She devised an amazingly successful Language Arts program which
she called "Blended Sight-Sound". In 1966 she was granted a
year to write a book on her methods, and her ideas were published that
spring. Since then, she has revised her book five times (the latest
revision in 1994). Mrs. Ingham has won many prestigious awards including
the Hilroy Scholarship Award and various STF awards. In 1995 she was
granted the Order of Canada in Ottawa for her contribution to education
in Canada. Today she is "retired" in Yorkton, Saskatchewan but
still conducts workshops in the summer as well as a few other times in
the year. She usually works with her daughter, Mrs. Shirley George, a
recently retired teacher from Edmonton, Alberta.
Dr. Webster is a professor emeritus from Dalhousie University in
Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. Webster began his teaching career in
Saskatchewan in one-room schoolhouses. He learned the Blended
Sound-Sight Method of teaching from Mrs. Ingham and devised a writing
method to accompany her reading program. He then continued his
university training and eventually taught in Dalhousie, using the same
ideas to teach writing to freshman university students which he used
with his grade-school children. His classes were in high demand at the
university. Dr. Webster also taught for seventeen years at various
universities in Africa. He published his book Blended Structure and
Style in Composition which is his most current book. Today he is retired
in Vancouver, B.C. and helps conduct summer classes in writing.
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