HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-12-02, Page 37Teachers chose reading as priority
The Huron -Perth Separate
School teachers kicked off a
series of Professional
Activity Days Friday at St.
Mary's with a day long
program that should help to
establish a core curriculum
for reading skills for
students. The program was
established in Conjunction
with Ministry .of Education'
guidelines for establishing
competence in areas of
learning.
The reading skills were
pulled from the list of
guidelines the ministry
established, after a.survey of
the teacher's. opinions was
taken by the. Huron -Perth
separate school board. The
teachers overwhelmingly
chose reading as a top,
priority and strongly"favored
establishing a core
curriculum for theskills that
will be system wide..
"We want . to establish
continuity for the school
system to try to avoid having
one school or a group of
schools from going off on a
tangent that varies from the
rest of the schools in the two
counties," said Joe Mills.
Mr. Mills, supervisor of
specialservices for the
separate board, referred to
the survey which set the -top
three priorities for the system
as reading with un-
derstanding and meaning,
understanding and using
arithmetic operations and
articulating student's own
ideas thoughts and feelings
with confidence.
The teachers were in favor
of participating on the
establishment of the
curriculum and chose
workshops on individualized
instruction as the means to
The Huron -Perth Separate School teachers held a
professional activity day at St. Mary's school in Goderich to
try to develop a core curriculum for separate school
students in reading skills. The teachers discussed the best
means of developing reading skills in their students trying
to put the same method in practice in all the two county
set their methods down. As a
result of the workshops the
teachers will prepare a report
to be sent to a curriculum
committee consisting of
teachers and parents. The
report will be reviewed and
sent back to the staffs for
final editing before it
becomes policy. '
Mr.. Mills said the teachers
hoped to lay out the steps they
feel are necessary to allow a
child to develop reading skills
and use them to benefit from
reading material in' all Stratford Schools.
subject matter both in school
and out.
The workshops were
established according to
zones that evenly divided thg
schools in the two counties
into four,, groups. Zone One
included Wingham;Goderich,
Clinton and Kingsbridge,
Zone Two 'included Exeter,
Mt. Carmel, Zurich and St.
Joseph's, Zone Three in-
cluded St. Columban,
Seaforth, Dublin, Hesson'and
Kinkora and Zone Four was
made up of St. Marys and'
Gordon Hill steps down
after criticizing food chains
Ontario Federation of worth of goodsund services to any time, the delegation from
Agriculture P r e s id en t( -operate their farms. Lanark County urged that the
Gordon Hill told delegates -at Guest speaker ' at the Federation request the
the Federation's convention Monday session was Federal Provincial Government t
in Hamilton on Monday that
he intends to step down from
the top OFA post.
Mr. Hill made the an-
nouncement -during the
President's Address at the
co-n-v-entio-n's- afternoon
session and at the same time
-strongly criticized super-
market chains in Ontario
which he said.control no less
than 67 percent of the retail
food business. Such chains, he
told the delegates, tend to
simply "swallow up" their
smaller .competitors.
The retiring president also
reminded the convention that
the Federal Anti Inflation
Board had named six large
food firms as having made
excess profits. He pointed to
Borden, Swift, Canada
Packers, Christie . Brown,
General Foods and Kellogg.
The farmer, he said, only
gets 20 percent of the dollar
spent by consumers for food,
Farmers and consumers
are interdependent, he gold
the gathering, and that the
supposed confrontation
...bet ween_these_two_groups has
been created by the Depar-
tment
of Consumer Affairs
and the press. __
Farmers were urged to
develop a clear identity when
certain segments of the
population began speaking up
on such affairs, ,
"There are two main slots
in the field of business," he
said, - "labor and
management. And „people
want to know which farmers.
belong to . . . we belong to
both."
According to Mr. Hill"
farmers produced $10 billion
in products in Canada last
year and managed assets
which were valued at $40
billion. On top of that farmers
purchased billions of dollars
Conservative leader Joe.
Clark:
• Clark told the convention
that a gulf had grown bet,
ween thosewho make. and
those who are affected by
decisions
Agriculture, he said, •
represented one of the most
imported components of the
Canadian economy.
Turning to the question of
beef imports, he explained
that a beef quota law exists
"on the books" in the United
States which can be put into
effect at any time. Although it
is not always enforced,; he'
suggested, the very fact that
it exists has a regulatory
effect on the beef market. He
went on to note that he would
like to see similar legislation
introduced in Canada.
Mr. Clark also said that
under a Conservative
government when producers
determined that a marketing
board for the product would
be advantageous such a
board would be established.
And when such a board was
seen as a disadvantage by the
producers in question, no
board would be recom-
mended. In general he in-
dicated a willingness to have
producer imput to legislation.
In other business the
convention considered a
number of resolutions, on
farm safety. A resolution
calling on manufacturers to
redesign tractor fenders to -
improve safety was accepted.
It calls for lower front . por-
tions of the fenders to be
connected to .the floor plate to
protect operator's feet and
legs from injury by the
moving parts.
Noting that. most operators
of fast moving vehicles have
little respectfor slow moving
vehicle signs and will pass at
0
revise their laws on slow
moving vehicle signs, to.
require that all vehicles,
before passing, indicate their
intent/4M to pass by sounding
their horn.'
The resolution- was----
narrowly lost as the delegates
felt it would be unwise to have
farmers relying on the sound
of a horn which would be.
difficult to •hear above the
noise of operating machinery
and especially . where the
operator was wearing safety
muffs to reduce noise.
A Grey - County recom-
mendation that the OFA
request the „Ontario Gover=
nment to pass legislation
requiring farm machinery
manufacturers to install turn
signals was referredback to
the Safety Committee for a
more detailed definition of
"farm machinery."
In the debate it was noted
that with such equipment as
plows and discs the rear view
of the operator or the vehicle
approaching from the rear
was not seriously impaired. It
was also, silBested that 12
volt wiring for such signals
was fragile and was unlikely
to stand up tothe rough usage
farm machinery was sub-
jected to. .
An Ottawa -Carleton
resolution noting that far-
mers who own a dump truck
for their farm operations and
occasionally will haul-a'load
of gravel or fill for their own
use should be allowed to
carry farm vehicle license
and be exempted from
compulsory —semi-annual
safety checks was narrowly
passed.-
The
assed.The OFA also agreed to
request the Ontario Gover-
nment to reinstate grants for
transportation of agricultural
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and can, if need be, change schools without falling behind in
their work. Here teachers from. Goderich, ' Clinton,
Wingham and Kingsbridge discuss elementary school
reading practices in one of the day's sessions. (staff -photo)
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