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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-11-02, Page 3Te chers want one-year delay on pr Ontario Schools Intermediate and Senior, or CBIS, or more simply the revamping of high school education was promoted and demoted at the professional development day held at Goderich District Collegiate In- stitute on Oct. 28. Secondary school teachers, Grade .7 and 8 teachers, and others in the education field heard two from their ranks square off on OSIS. OSIS architect Morris Liebovitz, an education officer with the Ministry of Education, spoke on the ministry document which is the culmination of two other reports. The first report was SERP, Secon- dary. Education Review Project and then came the ROSE report, Renewal of Secon- dary Education which is the ministry's response to SERP. "The next step was developing a policy document," said Mr. Liebovitz and thus came OSLS. To be implemented in September of 1984, the main implications of OSIS are the in- crease from 27 credits to 30 for a secondary school diploma with 16 being compulsory. Also streamliningof diplomas is included in OSIS with the number being reduced from two to one diploma. The ministry representative also noted heat tiee revamping of the secondary educa- tion system doesn't mean Grade 13 will abolished. 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." Another part of OSIS is a code of behavior 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 deman- ding, less forgiving" said Mr. Liebovitz con- sidering the increased credits necessary for "I don't personally care how many closet a diploma, the number of complsory credits French teachers (those who previously and the code of behavior. taught French, but because of declining__. "Students have to be more committed to enrolment had o teach other subject areas) education," said Mr. Liebovitz. there are. Are they prepared or trained to Although not opposed to the process or teach French at three levels. There is a pro - content of OSIS, Tom Dahl, executive of- blem," said Mr. Dahl suggesting profes- ficer of the Ontario Secondary School atonal development would be necessary. Teachers' Federation asked Huron secon- The three levels refer to basic, general and dary school teachers to ask their board to advanced. delay the implementation of the program Mr. Dahl also wanted to know who is going for one year. to pay for more texts and materials needed. Mr. Dahl said his main message regar- Staffing, he said, is another area that has to ding OSIS is to ask each teachers' federation be considered. to talk to the community and their school "More credits do not result necessarily in board trustees about._O$IS. Then he en- couraged the teachers to make a formal ap- proach to their boards to have the an- plementation delayed until September 1985. Lack off funding for anticipated costs is the main reason OSSTF is requesting its districts to ask their respective school board to delay the September 1984 deadline. Mr. Dahl brought statistics with him to back up his request. According to a recent study, mandatory French will mean an ad- ditional 4,000 French classes in the pro- vince. Again province -wide, this would mean about 600 to 800 more French teachers. gram more teachers," saki the OSSTF represen- tative noting class sizes could very well in- crease. "We need time to adjust staffing," said Mr. Dahl. Other problems with OS1S, which Mr. Dahl suggests should be carefully con- sidered prior to implementation, are defin- ing where additional funds are to come from for such things as teachers, teats or possible incentives for industry and -or commerce to become involved in a cooperative program. Mr. Dahl also expressed concern that the public is somewhat confused between special education and OSIS. They are two separate items, but the public "has some difficulty in divorcing the two". A representative from District 45 of OSSTF said the local federation had unanimously approved to ask the Huron County Board of Education to delay the im- plementation for a year. Director of education Robert Allan was asked if the board had any plans to defer the changes to secondary education. "Personally I am reluctant to recommend it (delay) to them," responded Mr. Allan. The afternoon session of the professional development day in Goderich was again on OSIS, but divided into individual subject workshops. Television can be used for education Television watching "permeates our culture" but it can be used effectively in religious education. Rev. James F. Hawker, the director of religious education with the archdiocese of Boston, gave the above quote and suggested ways to use television. He was speaking at St. Boniface Separate School in Zurich to Huron and Perth separate school teachers plus parents, nuns and members of the clergy. 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He told of how he had ob- sion programs incorporating other subjects. tained television equipment for use by inter- Art, is one example where scenes from a city schools in Boston, Mass. . program may be painted or English where "Then they (students) come to know the an essay may be written on various aspects medium," said Father Hawker. of the program. Talking to teachers about television, the Combining television watching with a Catholic priest suggested creative ways to Catholic education, Father Hawker said use the television in religion classes. certain realities have to be acknowledged. One way is to view programs during One such reality is based on TV advertising, religion class with a discussion period particularily what the Boston priest calls following, whereby the students' thoughts "Saturday morning" commercials. and feelings are probed. 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