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As a special education teacher at Brookside Public School, Mrs. Mary Here of Dungannon
has sat up many nights oast ,midnight at this desk to prepare lessons for her students with
learning disabilities. Teaching, she says, is not the 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. job many people think
It is. She also take time out from her career to write a Dungannon news column for both
the Goderich Signal -Star and the Lucknow Sentinel. (staff photo)
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Mrs. Mary Bere of Dungannon checks through the Goderich Signal -Star in search of her
Dungannon Doings column. She takes time out from her busy teaching career to write the
Dungannon news column for both the Goderich Signal -Star and the Lucknow Sentinel.
Writing the columirshe says makes her more aware of what is going on in her community
and helps her to maintain contact with people in the community. (staff photo)
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BY JOANNE WALTERS
Mary Bere of Dungannon
seems to have a special
devotion to children. She is
herself the mother of seven
and she also teaches remedial
reading and math to slow
learners and students with
special learning disabilities
at Brookside Public School.
Mrs. Bere's work as a
teacher is a demanding. -but
rewarding one. Sofnetimes,
she says, it takes a long time
to see results but when she
does it makes her teaching all
. worthwhile. Even something
simple like a change in a
student's attitude is an im-
portant accomplishment says
'Mrs. Bere.
Students with special
learning disabilities often
have average or better
abilities in many areas but
problems in certain other
areas.. They are classed
differently from slow lear-
ner. Mrs. Bere says she has
to be very tactful, especially'
with the parents of children
who have special learning
disabilities. Many parents,
she says, refuse to believe
that their children have
learning prbblems. that need
special attention.
"It's no disgrace if a
student can't learn one thing
as well as another," says
Mrs. Bere. "We try to bring
out what they can do in their
good areas and work out what
they can do in their weak
areas."
She gives an example of one
of her students who was a
poor speller but was excellent
on the trampoline. Emphasis
would be .placed on the fact
that this student was good on
the trampoline and not on the
fact that she was a poor
• speller.
Mrs. Bere feels that the
main idea in teaching slow
learners and children with
special learning disabilities is
to get the competition out of
learning and have each child
work at his own level and
pace. This takes a lot ol in-
dividual attention and
patience. Mrs. Bere gets to
know some of her students
very well. she may have
certain students year after
year depending on their
particular disabilities.
• Students with learning
disabilities are not to be
penalized because of their
disabilities. They are not
allowed to be deprived of such
subjects as art, music, and
physical education in order to
fit •their special education
classes into their schedules_
It takes a certain amount of
juggling the schedules to fit
all their subjects in. Mrs.
Bere says the other teachers
at Brookside are quite fair
about this sort of thing. The
working atmosphere at
Brookside in general is .good
and co-operative she says.
Although she feels that
teaching now is entirely
different than when she first
started teaching in a one
room school where the
teacher was the boss, she still
maintains that the schools in
this area are better off
discipline -wise than those in
the cities. Teachers today
often have trouble getting
students to respect their
authority, says Mrs. Bere.
"You have to develop a hide
like a rhinoceros," she says.
Still she feels that
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