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on ne ih Council approves private school for handicapped in Port Perry Scugog Township council unanimously approved a re-zoning which will allow a small private school where the developmentally handi- capped will be taught "living skills." The facility will be located in a renovated house on the south side of Highway 7A in Port Perry. The house had previously been used as a rental outlet, but has been siiting vacant for more than a year after a Graduate Susan Robins grad- uated after 5 years from the University of Toronto with a 4 years BSc in Psychology and a BA in Sociology. She has now accepted a position with Bryntag Home for Autistic Children in Brampton. fire gutted the lower storey. The two storey build- ing was recently pur- chased by Glenn Evans of Port Perry who plans to renovate it and lease to ADHOD, an organi- zation based in Oshawa which presently oper- ates several facilities for the handicapped in Durham Region. Graham Baldwin of ADHOD, told the coun- cil meeting Monday afternoon that the school would operate on a weekly basis only (9:00 - 4:30) for five to eight individuals who are physically handi- capped and mentally (From page 1) well, who can become infected. Parents are urged to read the information sheet sent to them carefully when their youngsters bring it home from school. And parents should be inspecting their child- ren's head at least once a week. An adult louse is an insect (about one-eight of an inch long) which cannot fly or jump. It clings to the hair near the scalp. retarded. They would range in age from 16 to 21 years, and all are now residents of the Sunny- dale Home in Sunder- land. He said the school is something of a pilot project for the organi- zation and is a transi- tional stage between Sunnydale and residen- tial living for the students. The school would be fully super- vised and such skills as dressing, personal hygiene, cooking and cleaning would be taught, said Mr. Bald- win. - Ralph Fairman of Port Perry, speaking to The eggs, called nits, are very small, white in colour and oval-shaped. They cling to the shaft of the hair and hatch in about one week. There are several special medicated shampoos which are effective in getting rid of lice. These are avail- able at any drug store and it is very important that instructions are followed precisely. According to Ms. Schaefer there are several reasons why the council on behalf of Mr. Evans said a survey of neighbours in the immediate area indi- cated no objections, and there were no objections raised at the public meeting Monday after- noon. Mr. Baldwin assured councillors that the school would remain small in scale and would never be used as a permanent residence. Council passed the necessary zoning amendment for the school. There is now a 35 day waiting period in which any citizen from the Township may lodge a formal objection. Reports of lice Health Unit announced it would no longer be involved in examing children in schools throughout Durham Region. Budget restraints this year caused a reduction of three nurses and the cost of the Unit of inspecting and re- admitting school children was $40,000. But she also said that head lice is not really a health problem and not a problem specific to schools. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, Sept. 11, 1984 -- 3 First year students from the Canadian Chiropractic College in Toronto made their annual visit to Port Perry last Thursday for a brief service at the statue of the man who started it all, Daniel David Palmer. He is the founder of chiropractic, and was born in Port Perry in 1845. The statue is in the park which bears his name. More than 100 students made the trip here. At back in photo are Dr. Jim Watkins, executive of the CCA; Dr. Jim Elford of Hamilton; Dr. Marty Richter of Oshawa; Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor who welcom- ed the group to the communit y and Dr. Chuck Bathie of Port Perry. The students also toured the house where Palmer was born. It is now a museum on Simcoe Street. Board adopts management plan The Durham Board of Education has adopted a new '"'management plan' designed to con- tinually improve the quality of classroom instruction. Bruce Mather, who became Durham's Director of Education last winter, said ex- cellence in instruction will produce graduates better able to think for themselves when they join the workforce or pursue further studies. Mather said the new plan stresses the need to teach children complex "thinking skills" like problem solving and decision making. "Part of a program must be knowledge and information dissemina- tion, part of it must be basic skills, but it cannot be exclusively that. We've got to each ap- plicatior skills. Once we've given children the knowledge and the basic skills, we've got to let them use them,' Mather said. "That is a fundamen- tal belief of mine. It we as a society don't ensure that we're producing a thinking populace ---- a group of adults that can solve problems ---- 1 think we're in serious difficulty." The development of thinking skills among students, depends on the ability of teachers to adapt instruction to in- dividual needs. Such adaption is another of the management plan's goals. ' "Teachers are being asked to modify pro- grams to the best of their ability to meet the needs of every child. Rather than hire more and more Members of the Port Perry Rotary Club attended the annual Past Presidents dinner held Saturday evening at the Legion Hall. One of the items of business was the official installation of officers for 1984-85. Front, from left: President Michael Fowler; past president Grant MacDonald; vice president, Ron Bridgewater; Sgt.-at-Arms Jim Grieve. At back from left: director Roger Moase, treasurer Jim Hardy; secretary Ed Hobbs and director Tom Mullen. Absent from photo are directors George Stone and Bernie Chandler. teachers, we must teach the ones there now to be able to adapt their teaching to a diverse group of individuals in the classroom, so that each student receives a reasonably personalized education,' Mather said. Because staff develop- ment is the key to ex- cellence in classroom in- struction, the new plan puts special emphasis on this area. "You achieve ex- cellence through the growth of people. We have to do a better job of staff development with all employees, based on the belief that every employee, every profes- sional person wants to grow," Mather said. The implementation of the management plan will not mean significant spending increases, but there may be some costs involved in a staff development program. "You can only achieve excellence through the growth of people and there are certain costs associated with that." While the major em- phasis of the new plan are excellence of instruc- tion and staff develop- ment, it also has impor- tant implications for other aspects of educa- tion in Durham. Among the most important is a commitment by the Board to the develop ment of a core cur- riculum for all Durham schools. "This doesn't mean that every classroom teacher will teach the same subject at the same time in the same way to each child,"" Mather said. Rather, Durham curriculum outlines will indicate what the child is expected to learn. To measure the suc- cess of this 'outcome based' learning ap- proach, the Board will develop a testing pro- gram specifically design- ed for the core cur- riculum as it is taught in Durham schools. The new plan also calls for the creation, by November 1985, of an "integrated corporate plan' to ensure coordina- tion among the Board's various departments. In addition, the plan proves for: -- The clarification of the role of the school prin- cipal and the area superintendent A pilot project to determine the effec- tiveness of school evalua- tions by a team rather than an individual superintendent And the evaluation of the effectiveness of Durham's special educa- tion programs. Responsibility for im- plementation of each area of the management plan has been assigned to specific Board ad ministrator. Mather noted that many of the most important in- itiatives ---- such as the teaching skills and staff development ---- are long term projects that will only succeed with the full cooperation of all trustees and staff. "In a school system this large we have a variety of teams and the only way to achieve our goals in through coopera- tion," Mather said. The management plan, which was approv- ed by the Board of Trustees August 27th, was prepared after a series of interviews con- ducted by the Director with members of the staff, including teachers, principals and other administrators. Mather said he is op- timistic the plan will suc- ceed. The Durham Board's financial sound- ness and the high level of staff commitment pro- vide the basis for further growth in the quality of classroom instruction, he said. The Durham Board of Education, Ontario's seventh largest, serves about 47 000 students an- nually in Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa and in Brock, Scugog and Uxbridge Townships. There are approx- imately 2500 teachers working in Durham clementary senior public and secondary schools. The Board has about 3,800 employees