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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1983-11-09, Page 11Olt ThE Mur Q i �q irQl r uolipARER,9, 1903 -. All �, In On040 SchOOLt Inter dll&tc And S. or OSIS or more 011010Y - the MOO h aehool edacstiollt wine; both PI M" and demoted itthe orofeailon development dliy < t Huron secondllry school teachers, Grade 7 and g teachers, and.q hers In theu on education field heard two from their ranks•sq OSIS. OSIS architect Morris Llebdvltz is an education officer with the Ministry of .Education. To be implemented in September of 1984, OSIS increases from 27 to 30 the numberof credits " needed ' for a secondary school diploma. Sixteen are compulsory. Revamping of the secondary education system doesn't mean grade 13 will be abolished, the ministry representative noted. rather what are now termed grade 13 courses will be called Ontario Academic Courses (OAC) which, said Mr. Liebovitz, are more "prescriptive to ensure standardization across the province." BEHAVIOR CODE Another part of OSIS is a code of behaviour which is to be developed by individual secondary schools. Mr. Liebovitz said there are seven major areas to be covered in the code. These areas are punctuality, regular attendance, respect for authority, peers, property and 'self and preparation for class. Secondary school will be "more demand- ing, less forgiving" said Mr. Liebovitz, in Goderich eeftelflerhIS the Increased credits necessary fort it idiploma:- the number of compulsory eredltit and the code of behaviour. "Students have to be mote committed to educatloltr ! UM Mr. Llcbovitz. • Altlmugh not.opposed to the process or content of OSIS,,TTom Dahl executive officer of the Ottterioi Secondary School Teachers' Federation asked the Huron secondary school teachers to ask their board tq delay the Implementation of the program for one year. Mr. Dahl said his main message regarding OSIS is to ask each teachers' federation to talk to the community and their school board trustees about OSIS: Then he encouraged the teachers to make a formal approach to their boards to have the implementation delayed until September 1985. Lack of funding for anticipated costs is the main reason OSSTF wants a delay. Mr. Dahl brought some statistics to back him up. According to a recent study, mandatory French will mean an additional 4,000 French classes in the province and 600 to 800 more French teachers. WHERE ARE THEY? "I don't personally care how many closet French teachers (those who previously taught French, but because of declining enrolment had to teach other subject areas) there are. Are they prepared or trained to teach French at three levels? There is a problem," said Mr. Dahl suggesting professional development would be necessary. Mr. Dahl also wt going to pay for pq needed. Staking, he .has to be conilde "More credits d more teachers," s tive noting etas$ increase. J "We need ti Mr. Dahl. Other probl Dahl suggests prior tq ample additional fu: things as tea ives for Indus involved in qq Mr. Dahl public is so education items, but divorcing A repre said the approve Educati year. Dire asked i chang P (dela' Thi dev OS1 TV in classroom increasing) BY ROD HILTS Nine years ago the 'Huron County Board of Education began incorporating TV Ontario (TVO) programs into elementary schools. Today learning through TVO has expanded to the point where the board has designated one teacher at each school to act as a television resource teacher (TRT). On Oct. 20 the board held a special tune-up session in Clinton, where 28 TRTs took a look at some new programming and ways of developing existing material. According to Dave Bieman, the media co-ordinator for the board, educational television is becalming a basic part of schooling. He compares it to "what parents remember as books". TVO resources have grown and improved significantly in nine years. "TVO resources keep getting better and better. I used to know every program TVO offered. n t now they must have over 1,300. i obviously don't know them all." COSTS OFFSET The board purchases the programs from TVO but much of the costs are offset by a Ministry of Education and a Ministry of Culture grant. TVO is funded through• the provincial ministries of Citizenship and Culture, Education, and Colleges and Uni- versities. Public memberships and corpora- tions also partially fund the network. Presently more than 4,000 English and FFran h TRTs in most 100 Ontario school fJd>♦t' 1, firovitttg a` Wrsdiial link betadeetl the provinces educational television network and more than 70,000 elementary and secondary schools, in most cases. the TRT is the school librarian, but he or she may also be a teacher, or the principal. Most TVO programmin¢ is t4ii to kpaw who is texts and materials,. 'Id, ill another ares thirtt of remit necessarily in the OSSTF represents - sizes could very l to adjust staffing," said e%ts with OSIS, which Mr. ould be carefully considered ntation, are defining where s are to come from for such ers, texts or posejl)le lucent - and/or commerce to become Eo -operative program. Iso expressed concern that the what confused between special d OSiS. They are two separate e public "has some difficulty in @,.two." n'tative from District 45. of OSSTF al federation had unanimously to ask the Huron County Board of to delay the implementation for a it of education Robert Allan was he board had any plans to defer the to secondary education. sonatly i am reluctant to recommend it to them," responded Mr. Allan 'afternoon session of the professional pment day in Goderich was again on In individual subject workshops. important The dog food of chajit ...is now ' being distributed by T NW& Brenda WhyteR".la«z AFO Whyte, SERTH DELIVERY AT SMALL CHARGE FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 523.0613 Huron's new director of education, Bob Allan �.�dpDBURN�'�$4► 4240 II 46 produced in series form, and Like a book, dents using this learning system gained offers cumulative learning. Programming is inore than those who had not used it. tied to the Ministry of Education curriculum IParlez-moi is a series for intermediate guidelines and is classroom -tested to ensure 'students studying French as a second it's understood, language. MathMakers supports the junior Huron County was one of the first in the; math curriculum, encourages enthusiasm for province to use the TRT system of filtering' math and relates math to the world. Teachers Information systematically from TVO to the who used the series with their junior classes teachers, Caroline Young, the utilization say they intend to continue because of their officer for TVO, says. students' increased learning and retention of "Don't get the idea television is replacilg mathematical skills and concepts. the teacher. It's the doing not the viewpg ART ON TV y that counts," says Mrs. Young. + One of the key items on the Oct. 20 tune-up GUIDES VIEWING session agenda was the new TVO production Since many series require action rile entitled Artscape, an eight -part series viewing, the teacher must guide the vieing designed for the junior art curriculum. Each rather than just sit back and let the Nass part takes a theme and it helps children watch. develop their own art so that they can better For the past three years, the Huron board understand their environment. • of Education has been using TVO serves to In summing up the impact P10 program - a larger extent. TVO produces edu ional ming has had on students in Huron Count9i guides to critical viewing. Mr. Bieman says the schools were fortunate The more popular\TVO school pkgram- to have support from the board. ming includes Read All About It, P ez-moi "P/0 programs and support have helped and MathMakers. Read All Abou$ It is a our teachers accept the reality of TV in our series aimed at developing compehension society in a way that is meaningful to kids in and vocabulary. Surveys indicated at junior the classroom." Mr. and Mrs. Geo, McKay of Orillia were Wednesday guests with Mrs. J. , Ure Stewart. 3950, 3925, 3851, 3859, 3906 3949 ' New 2650 Heat Units Also taking orders for home grown DOUBLE CUT RED CLOVER SEEQ at Competitive Prices Before you buy Give Pryce a try DUNGANNON 529-7949 Machinery club exam The Huron 4-H Agricultural Machinery Club held their meeting on Oct. 21 at the home of Len Lobb. At this meeting we wrote our4-H exam anti test. Plans were discussed concerning next year's meetings, Donuts and hot chocolate were enjoyed by all present, compliments of our host family. -Press Reporter Larry Hoggart Wood St & Fireplace Inserts Chimney & Accessories Your Pioneer Sales Representative is: HAROLD PRYCE • R. R. 1 Seaforth 527-1637 LOPI-KENT-OLSEN INFERNO=FABER FINDLAY, LECADET & PI91EER POWER All our, stoves and hearfh'mounts aro eligible for thus CANADA OIL SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM Showroom Hour Mon. to Fri.0:00 p m. to1;00 p,m.,, Sof.10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PIONEER. BRAND • SEED CORN Pioneer is a brand name; numbers identity varieties. ®Registered trademark licensed to Pioneer MI-SSrredd Limited Chatham, Ontario Beef prduce.rs are,, offered coo put"erh rt: , Computer use is becoming common- purchase weight, selling weight, expected place. death loss and implants and growth hor- The computer run, beef flashing program moves to be used. For financial analysis. is available through the Ontario Ministry of information on purchase and selling prices, Agriculture and Food at tie University of discounts anticipated, vet, medicine, market - Guelph. ing, trucking costs and overhead costs are Erosion affectedMany beef producers tut corn silage and required. By using figures from his own grains for protein, calciutt and phosphorus, feeding operation, a meaningful report is but don't participate in ,he beef finishing returned to the producer. What better way is by program.there to help make those deli ions on cattle seasons What can you get outof the program? tpurchases and feeding progra�mslus X20. for The usual repo¢ �s Olive a iitintdut on The first computer run is S45, p Seasonal climatic patterns may have a mineral mix formula, grain mix, -batch additional runs within the same feeding year. greater effect on soil erosion than soil texture weight, financial anal!sis, cost analysis of We are pleased to assist beef producers in or composition, says an agricultural engineer feeds, feed requiremett aasis is included iii and- completing plot interpretation i input the resufeedlfsamplling t at the University of Guelph. tories. Breakeven sellhg pricean, internse etacontonact your OMAF office.Ifin Professor Trevor Dickinson says the the financial analysis Stan Paquette erodibility of many Southern Ontario soils Inputs nee varies are ed test weight.type ofshetae ofarm Management Specialist varies with the seasons. Spring is the worst grown season for erosion because many fields are bare and the soil is extremely wet and less dense. By examining sediment data for Southern Ontario watersheds. researchers found that severe erosion is most likely to occur when rain falls on soil that is just beginning to thaw or that has just been tilled. Melting ice in the soil contributes to high water content and low soil density but, as soil drainage improves and drying occurs. the soil becomes more resistant to erosion. "Working the land in the spring 'fluffs up' the surface, making the surface soil Tess dense." he says. "This condition leaves the soil more vulnerable to erosion from heavy spring rainfall." Using a vane shear apparatus, researchers measured the resistance of surface soil to -lateral forces and found that finer soils. such as silty clays, were more susceptible to erosion in the spring because of the high incidence of frost heaving. The worst erosion in Southern Ontario in the spring occurs on the silty clay soil of Kent and Essex counties. "Previous methods of predicting erosion were based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation which assumes that soil has an inherent erodibility because of its tecture." says Prof. Dickinson. "There was no consideration of seasonal variation and such information is important for the development of cropping and tillage recommendations for the prevention of soil erosion.' Grain drying made easier with computer system A compute zed grain drying system and flow rate of grain entering the dryer. as which auto atcafly reduces the moisture wel, as the temperature of hot air used for content of grab toa'required level has been drying. A micro -computer balances the introduced b; a Waterloo company. The three factors to automatically control the system was remonstrated at the Hensall amount of hot air used for drying. Co-op, Friths,. Oct. 28. Prof. G.R. Sullivan of UW's chemical The process will dramatically reduce engineering department,- a member of the costs for grab dryer operators. according to project team, said the computerized opera - Allan Nizid, marketing director of Cana- tion replaces the guesswork most dryer clan Farm fee Systems Ltd. operators face when handling grain with The tethnology,for the system was widely varying moisture content. developedin co-operation with Farm Tec by He said operators tend to overdry corn to the Waterloo Centre for Process Develop- meet a 15.5 per cent moisture content limit ment. a semi -autonomous organization set by the Canadian Grain Commission. operating within the chemical engineering rather than run the risk of having grain department of the University of Waterloo. returned. Prof,Edward Rhodes, chairman of UW•s The computerized process will save the chemical engineering department, predic- operator money by reducing energy costs ted that the process will revolutionize grain (natural gas heating is frequently used); by drying techniques -throughout North Amer- reducing the time required to dry grain to lea, as well as other parts of the world. required level, resulting in increased "Large or small operators can use the ' throughput; and eliminates "shrink" which system for a relatively modest investment." results from over -drying. he slid. "Our studies indicate that the cost Prof. Rhodes said the techniques to dry can .re recovered in one year." corn on target at 15.5 per cent would be too Ssnsors measure the moisture content' complicated for the average operator Active trading and firmer prices at yards The market at Brussels Stockyards traded Remain of R.R. 2, Lucknow averaging 1132 lbs. sold for an overall price of 72.90. actively at firmer prices on a good supply of lbs. sold 'for 74.30 with his offering of 36 A heifer consigned by Bill Hardy of cattle. Cows sold easier. Pigs sold higher. steers averaging 1107 lbs. selling for an Belgrave weighing 1100 lbs. sold for 74.25 There were 914 cattle and 1001 pigs on overall price of 73.38. with his lot of 10 heifers averaging 1008 lbs. offer. Thirty-eight steers consigned by Fondview selling for an overall price of 72.75. Choice Steers -72.00 to 75.00 with sales to Farms of R.R. 3, Lakeside averaging 1068 Three heifers consigned by Earl Fitch of 80.00 lbs. sold for an overall price of 73.51. Wroxeter averaging 1683 lbs. sold for 72,K5 Good Steers -69.00 to 72.00 Two steers consigned by Douglas Wagg of with his lot 18 heifers averaging 1068 lbs. A steer consigned by Ralph Dickson of R.R. R.R. 5 Mitchell averaging 1165 lbs. sold for selling for 71.85. 5 Stratford weighing 1220 lbs, sold for 80.00 74.20 with his lot of 12 steers averaging 1196 • Fifteen hereford heifers consigned by Bill with his offering of 35 steers averaging 1173 lbs. selling for 73.40. Burke of R.R. 2, Atwood averaging 902 lbs., lbs. selling for an overall price of 74.20. Seven steers consigned by Gerald Ball of sold for 69.50. Six steers consigned by Norman Keiswet Embro averaging 1152 lbs. sold for 74.60 with Twelve hereford heifers consigned by Jim ter of R.R. I, Mildmay averaging 1251 lbs. his offering of 99 steers averaging 1090 lbs Walker of R.R. 1, Alma averaging 892 lbs. sold for 74,10 with his lot of 10 steers selling for an overall price of 72.48. sold for 69.40 with his offering of 34 hereford averaging 1215 lbs. selling for 73.70. Choice Exotic Heifers -71.00 to 74.00 with heifers averaging 945 lbs. selling for an Six steers consigned by Barry Heinmiller of sales td 77.50. overall price of 68.70. R.R. 2. Palmerston averaging 1271 lbs. sold Choice Light Heifers - 68.00 to 71.00. Choice cowp-41.00 to 44.00 with sales to for 74.20 with his offering of 20 steers A heifer consigned by Fred Marshall of 48.25. averaging L258 lbs. selling for an overall R.R. 3, Fergus weighing 1080 lbs. sold for Good Cows -38.00 to 41.00 price of 73.76. 77.50 with his offering of 44 heifers averaging Canners & Cutters -34.00 to 38.00 A steer consigned Maple Emblem Farms of 1135 lbs. selling for an overall price of 73.51 30 to 40 Ib. pigs traded to a high of 20.75. Dungannon weighing 1200 lbs. sold for 77.00 with his son, Randy's heifer weighing 1030 40 to SO' Ib. pigs to a high of 28.00 with their offspring of 72 steers averaging lbs. selling for 75.75. 50 to 60 Ib. pigs to a high of 33.50. 1138 Ibs. selling for an overall price of 73.31. 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