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°Secondary schoolteachers Mare'.
doing; a good job in Ontario in
spite of many handicaps, , a
',Toronto man told about 200 Huron
County teachers on Monday.
t J im Head of Scarboro, the co-
ordinator of a study on the,role of
the secondary school in Ontario,
revealed parts of his year long
study into the secondary school to
the teachers who were assembled
for a day long professional
development seminar at Central
Huron Secondary School in
Clintc#i. •
Mr. Head is preparing a
500,000 word report on the
secondary school 'based on 'a
year's study financed by the
Ontario Secondary School
Teacher's Federation (OSSTF),
The l eport, which was started
in August of 1974, should be ready
by January of next year and is
expected to raise as much con-,
troversy as `the Hall -Dennis
report did on public school
education in 1967.
The Hall -Dennis report
recommended,sweeping changes
in the schools and Mr. Head said
that it neglected to look closer at
the problems of secondary
schools.
The report, which solicited
Material through questionnaires
to 34,00(1 secondary teachers,
15,000 students and parents, and
briefs from government agen-
cies, industry and social agen-
cies, will in part list 12 areas of
concern to secondary school-
teaehers,.
Problems listed included:
violence and, vandalism as a
potential trouble maker here;
declining enrolments because of
the lower birth rate; increased
pressures on teachers to give
social and moral training without
adequate training; too much
emphasis on .political -'decisions
rather than philosophical ones;
different expectations of ,various
groups such as parents, teachers,
and trustees; too much ad,
ministrative bureaucracy and;
lack of rewards and incentives in
areas . where enrolment is
declining.
Other important points which
Mr. Head said concerned
teachers were stresses for
today's teachers:
"The only other group subject
to more stress are psychiatrists",
he said.
Mr. Head also said that
teachers are concerned that
schools are becoming too' 'large
and depersonalized and many
persons want to know what they -
are getting for their money.
"Can the training of students
be equated with the production of
goods?" Mr. Head asked.
The opportunities are not the
same for women teachers in•
secondary schools Mr. Head said,
and female students too are not
receiving the same opportunities
as the males.
-He said he found that more and
more, teachers are expressing a'
professional concern for the
direction of secondary education
and more and more are becoming
involved in politics to improve
the system.
"Teachers are first and
foremost people. They 'alre not
libraries, machines or
disserninators of knowledge,"
Mr. Head said.
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Jim.Head was the special speaker when teachers from this area met an Central,Huron
Secondary School, Clinton, on Professional Development Day Monday. Here Mr. Head
(left.) chats with Harry Dougherty of Seaforth 'gh school and Bill Murdie of Goderich
District Collegiate Institute. (staff photo)
Eighth Rotary Travelogue season
(ravel series spans
tr.
The Rotary •Club of, joying state festivals in
Goderich is heading into its -several oities. The film en -
eighth season of narrated compasses four seasons of
travelogues when the club
sponsors, a "Howard Pollard
film called The People , of
Spain. The film will be shown
in the •GDCI auditorium this
Tuesday and is, the first of a
•
fun.
The third flick of the series,
Romance of Romahia, is a
penetrating look' behind the
Iron Curtain with Jonathan
Hagar. The most colorful
series of six films that will becountry of Eastern Europe
shown throughout the winter. • comes to ;-life in visits to
The first film of the seasoit painted monasteries,
will give the audience a festivals in remotepeasant
personalized ,look at the areas and has a• touch of
people of Spain through livink- humor -lin it when the audience
portraits of Spaniards in all ,has a first hand look at a
walk's,of'life. hilarious mud bath on the
Howard Pollard takes his Black Sea.
viewers inti Spanish homes
and joins• the people in their
daily routine. The film was
shot in Several major cities in
Spain and is based on'.the
theory that .people are in-
terested in people.
The second film, to be
shown. on November 25, is an
angler's dream. Gary
Peterson offers An Invitation
to Minnesota taking the
audience across the rugged
landscape of the giant 'nor-
thern state.
Set in the rolling prairies,
valleys and rocky shorelines
that typify Minnesota,
Peterson crosses ,the state
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The. first filni of 1976, the
Romanian adventure will be
shown on January 27.
Dennis Cooper will take his
audience over the route taken
by Alexander Mackenzie
when he crosses the Canadian.
Rockies in a film on February
24. Cooper tackles country so
rugged and remota that it
seldom is traversed by
humans today.
The route from the western
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land sharing with them their
way of life.
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Iran, Tehran, and witnesses
rare mixture of ancient
culture and modern
technology that is found
nowhere else in the world.
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audience will visit villages,
homes ard'schools in Iran for
a first hand glimpse of the
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