2463 Lakeshore Road East Contact us for more information 905-842-2200 ext. 300 ? Academic Excellence with Enriched Programming ? Fully Trained, Experienced Certified Staff ? Fully Equipped Montessori Environments ? Parent Community Involvement ? Bright, Sunny Classrooms ? Beautiful Historic Building Expanding into Middle School, September 2013 Clanmore Montessori School Preparing children for life through education CCMA Accredited SCHOOL VISITS: EVERY TUESDAY 9:30 - 11:30 AM Ford D rive Arm igerLane WinstonChurchillBlvd. Lakeshore Rd. East We invite you to visit us and see for yourself 905.825.1247 112 third line, oakville, ontario l6l 3z6 www.ocsonline.org Dedicated to Higher Learning Oakville Christian School is committed to instilling confidence in young lives during their formative years. Cultivating in its students solid Christian character and values through a safe, caring, learning environment where every child matters. Classical Ballet Preschool (Baby Ballet) Curriculum to Professional Levels (R.A.D. & Cecchetti) Recreational Division Professional Division Pointe Pas de Deux Character - Folk Dance Modern/Jazz Adult Classes Oakville School of Dance All classes taught by professionally certified teachers Founder & Artistic Advisor: Elizabeth Paterson Former Major and Childrens examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance (30 yrs.) Consistently voted one of Oakvilles top dance schools. Students perform with the Oakville Ballet Company in Oakvilles own The Nutcracker Offering classes in downtown Oakville and at our Glen Abbey Campus Ballet Training Since 1960 Amanda Bayliss, Artistic Director 260 Robinson St 905-844-7035 (also located in Glen Abbey) Offering the best in Ballet training since 1960. www.oakvilleballet.com / email: oakvilleballetinfo@cogeco.ca REGISTRATIONSON NOWIN PERSON ORBY PHONE 1 7 W ednesday, Septem ber 7, 2011 O A K V ILLE B EA V ER w w w .in sid eH A LTO N .co m d h h l d hHow oes t e Sc oo wi e Enric ment Model benefit students at Oakville Christian School? So many great ideas about teaching and learning have little impact on educational practice. Innovations in education are attempted all the time, but few of them stick or scale up. The reason for this is that many innovations, changes, or reforms are those which do not affect the core of educational practice the nature of knowledge as under- stood by students and teachers and how this is manifested in the classroom. The core of educational practice may include physical layouts of schools and class- rooms, processes of assessing and evaluating student learning, communicating this to students, teachers, and parents, groupings of students, delivery style of lessons, types of questions that are asked, levels of thinking that are attained, teachers working relation- ships with each other. These all focus on the outcomes of learning experiences. Schools change all the time but these changes do not involve the core of educa- tional practice. They change the way they arrange schedules, they change class sizes, they change textbook series, tests, grouping practices, administrative roles, but these are not connected to the way knowledge is con- structed or the division of responsibility between teachers and students. Getting our students to learn at higher levels and increasing student achievement in schools today requires change in the way we fdo school. It requires changing the core o schooling. This is the sort of change that interests Oakville Christian School. Implementing the Schoolwide Enrichment Model improves the learning experience for our students in several ways. Our students have the opportunity to shine in the areas where they are strong and are deeply inter- ested. Students are exposed to many real- world applications to learning and many career opportunities that get them thinking about their future. Students have the oppor- tunities to face head-on some real-world problems and apply their learning to create real solutions and products. The Schoolwide Enrichment Model is designed to bring about changes in schools. Its vision for schools is that they become places of talent development. Everyone has an important role to play in societal improve- fment and everyones role can be enhanced i educators provide students with opportuni- ties, resources, and encouragement. For more details about the Schoolwide Enrichment Model, please call Janice Wood at 905- 825 -1247 ext 221 to arrange an in school tour. fEnriched learning osters individual development, real-world applications Advertorial k ll h h lOa vi e C ristian Sc oo