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tation, Zytuk ilas been able to
provide gymnastics, soccer
Skills, basketball and a host of
other exercises.
Education then is not really
changing on a wide scale, but
more on an individual level,
whereas Jim Chapman said they
"take some of the traditional,
which is excellent, and• mix it
with some of the new to meet in
the middle,"
have had a larger budget, it is not
necessarily a richer school. Both
schools receive a per diem rate
per student that their operating
costs have to come from. BPS
has more pupils, but inversely
more costs. The money for new
perqougirpammemn ' ets woor
changes
inuldeome in the
form of grant money said
Chapman, money that is
available equally to both schools.
He said that he and his staff are
currently' looking at a "values
course" that will place emphasis
on honesty, and supply guidance.
He added that a religious studies
portion, non-denominational in
focus, might be added.
Religion is the biggest dif-
ference between the two schools,
with PBS having a heavy con-
centrationr
prayers before
eonrereclilgaisoz tel both .'aTfher. eare p
recesses, before and after lunch
and at the end of the day.
Innovative techniques in
education are 'more for the in-
dividual teacher, allowing him to
adapt roles or courses to the
area. Zyluk, while rigidly
traditional, has developed a
unique approach to gym classes.
PBS has no gymnasium of its
own, but with ingenious adap-
easy from one side and prove to
be exceedingly difficult when one
gets thrown into them, It wasn't
so much trying to communicate
the ideas to the class, hot the idea
of doing the entertainment two
step shuffle, trying to keep their
interest up. The worn argument
is "I'm not there to entertain
them, I'm there to teach them"
which is certainly valid, but
every teacher must keep a
certain aspect of the lesson off
balance to revive the waning
interest. I came off lucky, being a
new entity with a rambling
method of speech delivery, but
that method, if repeated nearly
200 times a year, would certainly
turn tedious.
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It is difficult to say exactly
what I expected to find on this
brief foray into education. One of
the things that surprised me was
the way that things really haven't
changed all that much. Math, a
subject whose content will never
change, is still being taught from
the identical text book I used in
)966-67. The spelling texts and
french posters are of the same
vintage.
I had been told byZyluk that he
ran a traditional classroom, and
his estimates were accurate.
Social studies, a course
description rife with ambiguity,
is still metered doses of history
tempered with geography and
delivered by notes on the board.
The notes are titled, dated and
properly underlined, and there
seemed to be little room for class
discussion. Initial impressions of
massive change within the
classroom were replaced with an
overriding sense of• deja vu. I
thought that maybe within this
vast spectrum of change, Dave
Zyluk and Precious Blood were
holding out as the Last bastion-
traditionalism, That education in
Canada, and more directly_
in Huron County is the same in
1976- as 1966 is true, but the
qualification is the fact that most
know Zyluk wants to tack my skin
to the wall, both physically and
mentally. I wonder what I did to
deserve this,
In between times, there is the
opportunity to participate in a
French lesson, which shows how
badly my second language needs
to be brushed up, and to duck out
back to the office with the ad-
monition to "be back in time for
phsy ed."
I return, shortly before p.c. All
seems to go well, as I execute a
delicate, if somewhat cunt-
bersome front roll, Next up is
diving front roll, a feat which has
left my vertebrae,and lower back
muscles complaining about
working conditions. Tripods and
frog stands went well, but then
they got into the balancing
business. People standing on
others legs, stretching out, doing
imitations of bows of schooners.
Tricky business that I wanted no
part of, and almost escaped.
The final feat of the 16 Flying
Ambinis in the class was to have
one person lay on the ground,
knees in the air, and a second
come up place their hands on the
knees and rock forward to rest
their shoulders on the other
persons outstretched arms and
kick up into a handstand while
balancing in this precarious
postion. Few could manage it,
needing support when they fully
extended themselves,
I was coerced into trying it
twice, once with Chris Mit-
tleholtz, who couldn't get all the
way up and once with Brad Scott,
Brad had his inner ear designed
wits a slide rule. He has a
tremendous sense of balance,
which allowed him to fully extend
without support which sub-
sequently led me to have visions
of his head plunging through my
clavicle bone and giving Brad a
good look at my internal
workings.
My fling at teaching a
newswriting class proved to be
one of those things that look so
of the new trends are media
hoopla and more prevalent in
larger urban centers where the
boards are richer.
Jim Chapman, principal of
Exeter Public School confirmed
this with an outline of how the
courses of study are set up,
The Ministry of Education, in
Toronto, prepares a basic course
outline, showing what should be
taught. Since what will work in
Toronto won't necessarily play in
a predominantly agricultural
area like Huron County, the
board is allowed to adapt that
course to the / surrounding
facilities, From there it can
further be adapted by the dif-
ferent schools who meet in staff
meetings and decide an overall
policy and canoe further changed
again by individual teachers,'
Chapman pointed out that the
teacher can be told by him how he
wants something taught, but that
the teacher does not necessarily
have to implement it.
This system and the one in
which textbooks are 'chosen are
common between both the'
separate school and public school
systems, Texts are chosen from a
135 page book called Circular 14,
published by the Ministry. The
book contans all the approved
texts from the ministry, with an
emphasis on Canadian content.
Zyluk used three different
literature texts, one of which was
called Of Men and War, an anti-
war compilation of short stories.
The author and the emphasis of
the book are American. He was
clearly unhappy with having to
use the book, but explained that
the Huron-Perth Separate Board
provided a list,from which he had
to choose the books to be used.
This was further reduced by the
stipulation that the book had to
already be in the school,
Changes in education are not
necessarily funded from the
regular school budget, explained
Chapman, He pointed out that
though Exeter Public School may
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Within the past decade there
has been and continues to be a
major debate over the changing
focus of education, and the
direction it is taking the students.
Most recently, there have been
statements by university officials
aboht the quality of english
education being taught in
elementary and secondary
schools, going so far as to suggest
remedial english education for
university students and com-
pulsory english entrance
examinations,
In Surrey, British Columbia,
the different styles of educations
has created a rift within the town,
between left and right factions
over the looser, "free schools"
and the more traditional, value
schools. Four value schools,
which place the emphasis on the
three R's and the instilling of
"values" in the student have
sprung up in defiance to the
modern concept.
It may well be true that
education styles are changing,
particularly in larger urban
centers where a new school will
incorporate designs of buildings
that lean toward modular
classrooms with movable walls to
allow the mingling of various
grade levels at the whim of the
teachers. The physical design of
the school, it would seem, plays
as large or larger role in the new
trends as the staid, traditional
classroom has in the past.
By and large, however, the
shifts in education seem to be a
personal choice on the part of the
teacher, and by the board, with
its overall outlook and impending
control of the curriculum.
The other overriding factor on
both the trends and development
of education is the basic
denomenator money, A board
with vast finances and resources
at its hands can afford to ex-
periment more; to allow new
concepts to be employed. Without
the money for feasability studies
and implementation, a board
must remain static, or change
and experiment only as the clash
flow will allow.
All this became perfectly
evident when I attended school
April 8, and sat in Dave Zyluk's
Grade seven and eight class at
Precious Blood School, not as a
reporter, or observer, but as a
student, required to act and
function as a student:.
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Exactly what this sarcastic,
sardonic 22 year-old reporter
masquerading as a 13 year-old
student expected to find was not
clear at the beginning, and now,
after a harrowing ordeal with
mathematics, a subject that
haunted me through my school
days, after barely passing a
grammar test, after performing
gymnastic feats and playing
soccer, and pseudo-teaching a
one and half hour course on
newswriting, it is still somewhet
hazy, but one thing remains in
my mind: in Dave Zyluk's class
education has not changed from
the ten years ago when I was in
grade eight.
It had been a long time since I
was in a classroom like the one at
Precious Blood, but it didn't take
long for the routine of school to
return as soon as the day began.
By 9:45, well into the
mathematics part of the day, I
was looking at my watch and
hoping for, of all things, recess,
the pupil's coffee break. I made
the classic mistakes on the math
questions, not the technical ones,
but neglecting to date and head
up the sheet that was my
surrogate notebook. This, plus
the fact that I hadn't made any
corrections to the first part of my
work, was duly pointed out.
Moving right along, it was time
for literature, which consisted of
pre-read short stories or silent
reading on books, depending on
which grade you are in. The nice
thing about literature is that it
falls right before recess, which
was gaining in importance as
began to wonder why I would
agree to this project. I'd done my
year, I served a quick check on-
my watch showed that it was five
minutes away. Countdown to
ecstasy.
Outside for the fifteen minute
respite, the class and the school
quickly divide into two. Male and
female, The male thing to do is
play soccer, particularly if you
are in grades five to eight. I
haven't the foggiest idea what
females do, they were hidden by
the portable, but it was
something other than soccer.
In soccer, the fives and sixes
line up against the sevens and
eights, which is not exactly even,
but is none the less an easy, ar-
bitrary division, The younger
ones show an amazing resiliency
to hard bumps and knockdowns,
seeming to have the constitution
of an indian rubber ball, The only
reSembla nee to soccer is'the ball,
which is underieflatecl, and tires
to mark the goalposts. Hands,
heads and feet are used wan-
tonly, sdinetitnes on the ball, One
fellow, who had knocked over an
opponent decided to allow me
some valuable insight qthat's
what this school is all about" he
declared, "murder," Somehow I
doubted his observations.
After recess, within the tamer
confines of the classroom, t any
told gymnastics will be the order
of the day for plays ed, Now I