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'Character
Education' initiative launched
at Avon Maitland board office in Seaforth
Stew Slater.
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The "Character Education" initia-
tive of the Avon Maitland District
School Board was launched last
week, in advance of full implemen-
tation across Huron and Perth
Counties next September.
Character Education aims to pro-
mote positive personality traits
among students, through existing
curriculum and school activities.
Ten traits were identified during a
series of community forums last fall,
and work is now underway to deter-
mine how teachers and administra-
tors can promote those traits in the
classroom and school.
A board -wide committee is direct-
ing the process, while other groups
associated with the board -- includ-
ing trustee, student trustees and
school councils -- have been dis-
cussing related issues.
That included a meeting April 12
at St. Marys DCVI high school.
"I would be very interested in
working on using the youth, using
the students in the schools to pro-
mote this concept in the wider com-
munity," said Perth District Health
Unit representative Carol
McDougall, who attended the St.
Marys -meeting.
She already works with both the
Avon Maitland and Catholic school
boards on a pilot project promoting
physical activity and nutritious eat-
ing in schools, and praised the
Character Education idea.
Involving the wider community
fits right in with the vision of Avon
Maitland education superintendent
Ted Doherty, who oversees the ini-
Canadian author
Katherine Govier
to read from
new novel
Readers will have a chance to get
up close and personal with
Canadian author Katherine Govier
April 29 at the Bayfield town hall.
Govier, the author of seven previ-
ous novels including The Truth
Teller, will be reading from her new
novel, Three Views of Crystal Water,
beginning at 7 p.m.
Readers can also check out
.Govier's web site at www.govier.com
Tickets for the event are $5 and
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(519) 565-5600 or visiting the web
site, www.thevillagebookshop.com
tiative.
Following a regular board meet-
ing Tuesday, April 11, he said, "we
hope to have these attributes seen
in arenas, in shopping malls, to see
community groups adopt them as
something they talk about and
something they work intoe their pro-
grams."
Stratford Northwestern
Secondary School student trustee
Thea Van Den Tempel, who repre-
sented her group at the April 11
board meeting, said high school stu-
dents welcome the initiative,
although .they might not be as
receptive if it's not delivered cre-
atively.
"Teachers have to show (the posi-
tive personality traits) but they
can't just preach it," Van Den
Tempel advised. •
A launch for the Character
Education initiative was held
Thursday, April 13 at the board's
Seaforth headquarters.
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