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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-02-24, Page 1Dick Jewson (441 sinks a basket to help Central Huron Redmen romp over Stratford Northwestern in the Huron-Perth basketball semi-finals. Jewson scored 22 points as the team won a handy 76-58 victory. They will now meet Stratford Central in Clinton on Friday in the first game of the championships. Interest in course not high Bargain World prices are low Record merchants displaying "Bargain World" posters wish to show you they appreciate your business, and will give you the best service available anywhere, These merchants are constantly alert to your needs, and keep their shelves supplied with merchandise selected especially for you, at prices that will save you money. Check the "Bargain World" pages in today's edition of The Clinton News-Record for all your needs. 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Goldsworthy Motor Sales; Haugh Tire Supply; Ivan and Mickey's Gulf Service Station; Jervis Sales-Aluminum Products; Kurn ,In Restaurant; J.T. Murphy Ltd Motor Sales; J.W. Peck Auto Electric; Priceguard Patent Medicines; Scrtiten's Tire and Auto Service; and Clinton News-Record, Mrs. Harold Elliott opened her new store, Mary's Sewing Centre, On Albert Street on Monday, Mrs; Elliott not only tells sewing needs but alto gives courses in sewing. She reported good business in her first two days. (:no fum y. OuSorio 2(1 cenr$ Clinton News-Record 1972 . Hi 1,0 Feb, 15 36 20 16 24 4 17 30 6 18 35 25 19 27 11 20 12 0 21 3$ 11 Weather 1971 Hit LO 23 4 85 1$ 33 28 39 19 34 21 40 23 38 22 Thursday, February 24, .1972 .107 Y for No: a Snow 12" Bain 1.10" Teachers like designing own curriculum Although there was no formal report concerning Professor Dawson Woodburn's request that music courses be begun in the schools of Huron County, there was some informal talk concerning the matter during the discussion of curriculum development. At that time it was pointed out by Principal Joe Wooden, South Huron District High School, that only six people had indicated an interest in music, although it was offered on a sheet listing the possible courses of study for the coming year. Wooden said three Grade 8 st Column A group from Brantford, the Cook Brothers, will play at the One For All coffee house this Saturday at 8, p.m. The weather has played tricks on the coffee house lately forcing cancellation of some shows, but it is hoped there will he no trouble this week, -I- -I- -I- Most of us chickens wouldn't even take part in the log sawing contest at the Winter Carnival even though we were young. But one competitor showed everyone up with his spunk. George Hunter, who is 80 years old, took part in the competition with his nephew, Ron McKay, principal of Hullett Central Public School. This was one of the highlights of the log sawing contest this year which was the most popular one yet. Winners of the contest were Gerald Rathwell and Arnold Taylor of Stanley township in 43 seconds. Grant and Harry Snell were second in 49 seconds. John Burr and Wayne Kennedy were third in 60 seconds. The winner of the Huron-Perth District Collegiate Drama Festival, to be held Feb. 25 and 26 at Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton, will be invited to participate in one of the regional competitions of the Ontario Collegiate Drama Festival, scheduled for Saturday, April 8 at Goderich Collegiate, Also eompeting at the Goderich Regional Festival will be the winners of the district festivals in Kitchener-Waterloo, Brantford and Bruce County. The school winning the best play award at the Regional will go on to participateintheOntarioFinals,to be held at the University of Waterloo on May 12 and 13. There are approximately 300 secondary schools taking part in 26 thstrict festivals this year, They Will he narrowed down to eight regional winners, to go on to the Ontario Finals. The Ontario Collegiate bra= Festival, now in its ninth season, is sponsored by SimpSons-SearsLirnited, who underwrite the entire cost of the Finals, including awards, billeting, travel allotments, adjudication, etc. They also sponsor the regional festivals, and give assistance to many of the district festivals throughout the province. students and three students presently enrolled at SHDHS had indicated their desire to be taught music at the secondary school level. Wooden also told the board that had music become a subject in South Huron for September, it would have entailed a complete reshuffling of classes—if not a building program—to accommodate it. "I don't know where we would have taught a music course at South Huron," mused Wooden. He also explained that courses like music which require special teaching skills and equipment were very expensive in sparsely populated areas like Huron because of the usually small numbers of children benefitting from the course. Further discussion showed that although it had been suggested that plenty of qualified teaching staff was- available, recent advertising had not proved this to be true. Since music would not be a fulltime course for any teacher, other teaching skills must be possessed by the teacher. Few music specialists are qualified to teach other ,subjects, it was discovered. The establishment of educational goals for the Huron County Board of Education— particularly one word of the first of eight aims—was discussed in detail by trustees and members of the administrative staff Monday evening in Clinton. The one word was "moral" and the first recommendation was as follows: "In an effort to give direction and purpose to the educational system of the County, the Huron County Board of Education feels that all policies and decisions should be made within the framework of the following education guidelines: a. The development, within limits Fine quality merchandise at prices you'll hardly believe will be found in Clinton this week when customers will be honored with Bargain World. Clinton progressive merchants, courteous salespeople and The Clinton News-Record are all working together to offer consumers the biggest welcome and greatest values to he found in any shopping area. They invite you to be here this week and see for yourselves the great values they have to offer, You can buy with confidence in Clinton. 'Phe Clinton NewS- A group of Huron County elerneptary and secondary school teachers who have been studying curriculum development for presentation to the board of education told trustees Monday afternoon in Clinton that every teacher is free to develop his or her own curriculum—and prefers it that way. Although the Ontario Department of Education came under criticism by the committee because of its lack of direction in some courses of study for some grades, it wis evident from the presentation made by the Huron teachers that most modern educators enjoyed the freedom they enjoy within the broad guidelines set down by the Department. Ralph Smith, Principal of Robertson Memorial School in Goderich, compared the detailed courses of study of former years to the very loosely structured guidelines provided by the Department of Education these days. He noted his belief that more definite courses are valuable especially in the kindergarten to Grade 6 area, because it is important that certain skills he taught to all children. Herb Murphy, Science department head at Goderich DCI spoke of the need to co-ordinate the courses taught in the intermediate grades—seven, eight, nine and ten—so that the transition from elementary school to secondary school can be as smooth as The fourth annual Clinton Bantam Hockey Tournament will begin tonight at 6:30:at the Clinton Community Centre. This will be the biggest tournament to date, extending over 10 days in three weeks. In all, there are 64 teams entered and there will he 57 games played Doug Andrews, chairman of the tournament, said some teams have been forced to withdraw because of playoff commitments but all have been replaced. There will he three games played tonight starting with Tavistock and Monkton in -D" play. Three more games will be played on Friday and Saturday will see 10 games, culminating in the "AAA" championship game from 8:15 to 10 p.m. This will pit either Royal York or Port Huron against Etobicoke. Sunday will see another 10 games, Estate planning is a complex field of law and taxation. How do the new tax reforms affect estate planning? What can a partnership or corporation do for you and your son as well as your farm business. What are some of the problems of farming partnerships or incorporating family farms. These factors and questions have been taken into account in planning a two-day short course for farmers. Offered by the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food . the course will be held on Wednesday, March 1 and Tuesday, March 2, 1972 at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology, Huron Park. Sessions begin at 9:30 and end at 4:30 each day, The topics to be discussed include: Special of resources available and laws of the Province, of each boy and girl to his emotional, social, moral and physical growth regardless of mental and physical capabilities." It was John Henderson of McKillop who questioned what the board meant by moral and physical growth, He was told that the Huron County Board of Education would do everything in its power to see that the moral and physical growth of its students was of the highest order. Henderson then produced a copy of a play, which, he said, his son was studying. possible, causing the least amount of upset to the fewest number of students. It was pointed out that each department in the secondary school must function as a curriculum committee. Departments at the present time do develop courses and work on curriculum, but more local work must be done in this direction, it was shown. Murphy said that when curriculum development is considered, there are a series of steps which must be followed. Teachers must consider the rationale of the course, the aims and objectives of the course, the content, the textbooks available, reference materials, the costs involved, the methodology and techniques of instruction, the qualities of the -teacher who will give the course and the steps involved in obtaining approval for the course. Murphy also talked about the need for evaluation of courses, He spoke about almost daily evaluation where the teacher would assess whether or not the part of the course taught that day had met the aims and objectives set down. "Every day should be evaluation day in the classroom," said Murphy, "hut once a year or possibly once a term or semester, there should be an overview of the work to date. A department could profitably set aside a whole week, either in June or spread out through the year, to evaluate its total program, possibly Action will then cease until Thursday, Ma rch 2 when two games will be played. March 3 will see three games. Saturday, March 4 will see seven games and Sunday, March 5, will see two championship games among the eight games scheduled. The "AA" championship will be decided at 2 p.m. and the "A" championship at 3:30 p.m. The final weekend of activity is Saturday, March 11 and Sunday, March 12. There will he seven games on the Saturday and four games on Sunday afternoon, All games on Sunday will be the championships. The "D" championship will be played at 1 p.m . The "C" championship will be played at 2:30. The "E" championship will take place at 4 p.m. and the "B" championship will he played at 5:30 to wind up the tournament, problems in Estate Planning; Some estate planning tools; Planning father and son agreements; Forming a partnership or corporation. Lyall MacLaughlan, Area Co-ordinator and Farm Management Specialist, Hamilton, will be presenting the material and leading Monday's session, and Doug Miles, area co- ordinator and Farm Management Specialist will be presenting the material and leading the Tuesday session, Registration in the course is limited to the first 50 applicants. Interested farmers are advised to file their applications immediately with their county agricultural representatives in the counties of Bruce, Huron, Perth, Lambton, Middlesex, Oxford and Elgin. Henderson related that his son was required to stand up in class and read a portion of the play which contained some obscene language. He said his son hesitated and had to be asked twice to read the exerpt. "Is that promoting moral growth?" asked Henderson. Mrs. Marion Zinn, Ashfield, chairman of the education committee which introduced the educational goals to the board, said that lengthy discussion had been heard in committee on the matter. She said that it had Please turn to Page 3 on the basis of one day per grade level, In some instances, members of another department, or parents, or outside consultants might be invited to attend," Joe Wooden, principal of South Huron DHS, chairman of the committee, told the board it was possible for courses to develop in one school which Were not being taught in any other school in the same county, "Yet all courses would be under the de'partment's guidelines because the guidelines are so broad," Wooden said, "Teachers approve of the present system," observed Wooden. "It allows much broader development and permits the teacher to utilize the special skills he or she possesses." Murphy, however, noted that could be the "great weakness" in the system. He said that in Grade 9, for instance, students came from a variety of "feeder schools" to a central high school with a variety of skills and special interests. Murphy stressed the need for the "core" which would be common to all. Mrs. Gordon Pullman of Seaforth Public School and Ken Scott, Brussels Public School, summarized some of the present work being done in the county toward curriculum development. Others on the committee were Superintendent Jim Coulter and Trustee Don McDonald. There were 13 recommendations set down by the committee for study and possible implementation by the board of education in Huron. They are: 1, That Departments within each secondary school increase their efforts in the direction of curriculum development with special emphasis on relating techniques of teaching to content and upon other aspects of curriculum other than content; 2. That teaching staffs spend more time in curriculum evaluation. This should include some attempt to determine the degree of success of secondary school graduates from Huron in post secondary education, in business and in industry; 3. That Subject Councils be formed and operate as suggested; 4. ThatSecondary School Department Heads of each subject hold regular meetings for curriculum development purposes; 5. That all teachers of a subject at the secondary level meet occasionally for curriculum development purposes; 6. That a curriculum Development Committee he formed in each school in the county; 7, That curriculum guidelines for Kindergarten to Grade 6 be completed. K. to 6 curriculum should emphasize the basic skills—reading, writing, arithmetical skills, spelling, etc; 8, That county-wide meetings for teachers in special areas continue; 9. That teachers of each grade K to 6 meet regularly to evaluate and develop curriculum as noted in section 8; 10. That more preparatory work be done for special courses, such as music and art, prior to offering such courses. For example, we should do more than simply place the name of a subject on a subject selection sheet. Curriculum and facilities need to be considered as well as staff; 11, That some of the time recommended by the PrOfessional Development Committee be spent in curriculum development; 12, That consideration be given to freeing for limited periods of time certain members of the county teaching staff to review curriculum in a defined area and then hold sessions with the teachers concerned. Such sessions should concentrate on curriculum improvement; 13, That nothing in our report suggests that we should aim at a uniformity of curriculum among the schools of the county. Some agreement on general areas and objective and upon some core material is desirable but considerable freedom to interpret Department guidelines and to develop courses should remain with the local school, Clinton hosts Legion speaking contest Fifteen contestants—top winners from four zones—took part in the District C finals of the Royal Canadian Legion public speaking contest at the legion hall in Clinton Sunday afternoon. District C encompasses an area from Exeter in the south to Tobermory in the north and Goderich in the west to Galt in the east. Winners were: senior secondary school division, Neil Lamont, 15, of Port Elgin; junior secondary school division, Jamie Lizmore, 15, of RR 4, Kincardine; senior public school division, Janet Cassels, 14, of Galt; junior public school division, Linda Graupner, 11, of Galt. The four winners will compete in area finals at Hanover March 5, Provincial finals will be 'held in,Windsor April 1. Spring Fair will last 3 days The Clinton Spring Fair' will be a three-clay event this year. Directors of the Huron Central Agricultural Society voted Thursday night in favour of extending the fair to include a Sunday program. Normally the fair includes activities on Friday and Saturday. The Sunday program will include a light horse show. There will be show events and competitive racing events. Directors also increased the total of prize money to be awarded in many livestock classes and cut out a few classes which have not been used in recent fairs. Bantani tournament starts tonight, 57 games, 64 teams Course on estate planning offered at Centralia Board worries about moral growth of students