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Clinton News-Record, 1971-10-14, Page 15ENGLISH 60" CRIMPLENE A fully washable 101/2 oz. fabric. Crepe weave. Purple, Moss green, brown, burgundy, royal and navy. 60-INCH Printed CRIMPLENE Over 20 pieces in stock. These are selling fast this fall and an excellent 7 buy. Sale Price , • yo. SCHAEFER'S -• GODERICH 1Kdgi")gtdgIVIEB NAi..LSSEVP' FABRIC CENTRE 36-INCH PRINTED FLANNELETTE Available in florats, stripes and plains. A timely price reduction. SALE PRICE BONDED BLAZON 3 99 Wathable and available in plain and matching coordinating cheeks and plaids. Reg. $5.98 yd. 11111111111111111111111111111111•111.111mmi linnili TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN Totenterelegram Syndicate "Sturdy and lively" Martin. is a ;handsome boy, very •tall for his two years and four months, lie is a child of mixed race — black and white — and he has fair skin, light-brown soft curls, and brown almond-shaped eyes. lie is the kind usually described as all-boy. Ile is happy, active, rambunctious and very determined. Ile is built like an athlete and is well co-ordinated, running and climbing and riding his trieyele with skill, Martin is s ery inquisitive, wanting to see 'What's behind or inside esers thing he sees, lie isn't trutch interested in television, but does like music. lie's a good eater and makes no fuss about going to bed. This sturdy ,,roting fellow needs parents who will enjoy his liveliness and will provide stimulation without pres- sure for academic achievement. To inquire about adopt- ing Martin, please write to Today's Child, Department of Social and Family Services, Parliament Buildings, 'F 'on= to 182.. For general adoption information, ask your Chil- dren's ;hill. Society. The latest fall shades of reds purple and violet. SALE PRICE An ideal falStio train which to Sew for pant trips, hot pants and long dresses. SALE PRICE Most manageable tare free wig you have ever owned. BEE:, TO 34.0S COMPLETE STOCK LEATHER COATS 8 JACKETS $10 wpFRIT. 45-INCH PRINTEt Our complete stotk of high quality crimplene. Complete range of colours in crepe, treebark, crochet, tipple, swirl and blister. New pastel shades for Christmas sewing just arrived. Full-length leather coats and leather jackets with zip liners, Sizes 9-20. Expertly tailored in this season's styles and colours. goy now and save SALE RACK untrienrned tweed TWEED COATS siZtt t-20 LiM11113 TIME SALE mice LADIES WEAR LIMITED ON THE SQUARE — GOOERICH Clinton News-Flocord„ Thursday, October 14, 1971 5A Walkerton wood industry gets ARD.A assistance The Eton-graded concept in Huron A wood products industry that has served western Ontario for many years has been awarded a grant from the AIWA administration which, combined with a term loan, will provide the necessary capital to refinance and expand its operations, creating new employment opportunities for local people. Canada Spool and Bobbin Company Ltd. in Walkerton (Bruce County), manufactures spools and bobbins, used in the textile and tire industries, as well as furniture components, dimension stock lumber, and wood turnings for the furniture and toy industries. The expansion program that has been approved will include the construction of two fully equipped kilns and acquisition of additional equipment. When this expansion program is complete, the present labor force of 73 will be increased by 10 workers, with another 10 jobs to be created within five years, It will also permit the company to expand its local purchases of logs from farmers to about $62,000 in the first year. Financing for this expansion program will be shared on an equal basis by the Federal and Provincial Governments under the terms of the Rural Development Agreement signed in 1970. It is part of an extended program to create alternative employment opportunities and improve the incomes of rural people by providing new jobs and new markets, This announcement was made Overw ntering ge There are many ways to keep your geraniums alive over winter, Geraniums can be kept in an almost dormant state in a cool moist basement. If this is not possible, the simplest method, say horticulturists with the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, is to take cuttings. Cut off young vigorous shoots about two or three inches long. Put them in a pot of clean sand and water well. Keep jointly by lion, Wm. A. Stewart, Minister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario, and Hon. Jean Marchand, Minister of Regional. Economic Expansion (canada), ran iljrn S moisture in by placing a plastic bag over the pot. To speed up rooting, keep the pot in a warm place at about 75%. Leave the soil barely moist; if it is too wet, the cutting will be more susceptible to disease. When the euttings are well-rooted, re-pot them in a good well-drained soil, Give them as much light as possible, and pinch back to ensure bushy plants for next spring. By Arnold Withers, Principal, Huron centennial School, Bruceflekt During the last few years, and especially since the Hall-Dennis report of 1968, many people in Ontario have been taking an interest in non-graded schools, What is a non-graded school? The concept of a non-graded school was popularized in the United States about ten years ago by the authors Goodlad and Anderson. Their book the Non-Graded Elementary School started the search for non-graded schools and programs. It's a futile search because a non-graded school simply doesn't exist. Non-gradedness is an idea. Simply stated it means that the children at one grade level do not all learn the same thing at the same time or in the same room, There are as many patterns of non-gradedness as there are schools. Some schools test all pupils in spelling and establish spelling groups containing pupils of close to equal ability. Thus, Grade four, five, and six children, who all spell about the same, go to the same room for spelling periods, Other schools keep all the Grade five children in the same room for spelling but have groups of children working at various grade levels. The same concept may be applied • to mathematics, reading, or creative writing. Another popular pattern is the age-grade organization. Classes are set up on the basis of age and stay together through their eight years of elementary school. The teachers group the children within these classes for reading, mathematics, and spelling, but teach subjects such as social studies and science to the complete class. Schools organized in this way call their groups by age, e.g. the eight year olds, the twelve year olds, etc. A different type of non-gradedness is called the multi-age group or multi-grade group. Children from Grades 4, 5, and 6 are placed in one classroom. The teacher conducts a course of study at each grade level but allows Grade fives to work above or below their grade level. She also provides material for Giade four and'siirpimils CO work above and below their grade level and, therefore, she is really teaching Grade 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 courses. This resembles the organization of a rural school but reduces the age difference of pupils to three years and lets them range across the grades in various subjects. The unit system is one of the better known non-graded organization. It allows pupils to move through units of work and negates the necessity for repeating a whole year, or going on to the next grade of work before the pupil is ready. It divorces the promotion system from the calendar. A school in Joplin, Missouri, worked out a system whereby pupils were "streamed" for certain subjects but retained the idea of a homeroom teacher for other subjects. Reading and english skills are streamed for one part of the day, mathematics is streamed differently far another part of the day, and pupils work in their grade placed classroom for the balance of the day. The timetable might look like this: Reading and Language — 9 a.m.— 11 a.m. Mathematics — 11 a.m, — noon, Homeroom grades in afternoon. Groups or levels are determined as follows Qroqp 1 compares to Grade 3. Group 2 compares to Grade 31/2 , Group 3 compares to Grade 4. Group 4 compares to Grade 41/2 . Group 5 compares to Grade 5, Group 6 compares to Grade 51/2 , A Grade four pupil can be in level 3 reading and language, and level two mathematics. Another Grade four pupil from the same class could be in level 3 reading and language, but level five mathematics. Both pupils do the same work in the afternoon but are grouped according to their ability in reading and mathematics. In this case their reading is similar but there is considerable difference in their ability in mathematics. Other various of non-gradedness in elementary schools which developed later have been called continuous progress, flexible rotary, unit promotion, thematic ,scheduling, ad infinitum. In all cases they are attempts to provide a better match between the subject and the child. It really doesn't help a child to take Grade six mathematics if he doesn't learn anything, even though he passed into Grade six on the strength of his other subjects, Most schools agree that the variation in a class is about one greater than the grade level, A Grade four class may have about a five year variation in any subject i.e. pupils ranging from Grade three to Grade eight ability, and a Grade seven class might have about an eight year variation, i.e. a Grade 5 — 11 ability. Conceivably a child might range from a Grade five level in spelling to Grade ten level in science and Grade six level in mathematics. At this time it is probably obvious that no single pattern of non-graded organization is better than any other. We can only say that some form of non-gradedness is likely better than none at all. Non-graded, while yet in its infancy, has been superceded by the open-concept, Openness, like non-graded, is a complex notion. An open concept school does not mean a large physical area, in fact some open area schools operate a very closed system of education. Openness is a synonym of trust. It refers chiefly to a teaching approach which disregards the traditional pupil-teacher methods and the lock step program. The emphasis is directed toward classrooms in which 1) the room is decentralized into groups and work areas, 2) the children choose some of their activities, 3) the teacher provides rich learning experiences and materials, 4) the teacher works with individuals or small groups — seldom presenting a "lesson" to the whole class. While there* are approximately 360 open plan school buildings in Ontario, no one would hazard a guess at the number of schools in which open concept education is being initiated, With the emphasis on trust between the staff and students, libraries are used by any student at any time of the day, audio visual machines are operated by my children who have taken basic instructions in their operation, and pupils are not tied to one room or one teacher all day every day. It is hoped that the student assumes greater responsibility for his education and the by product is heightened motivation. The idea of the open concept school was practiced in Britain after the Second World War. Some excellent films are now available showifig children in British Primary Schools which operate under the open concept plan. Undoubtedly this is a gross over simplification of both trends in our elementary educational patterns, however, it may serve to establish the idea that there is no one way to establish ungraded or provide open concept schools. Why bother with these changes? M parents, we sit down today with our seven or eight year olds to discuss the kind of worldly knowledge which our parents passed on to us as teenagerS. Sesame Street and the cultural and technological change which it represents is a real challenge to the educational community.