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BUILDERS BUSY AT SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD SCHOOL Translation May Be Need To Understand Teacher Parental conferences with a!the kind of room, the mental child's teacher can often be frustrating affairs, particular- ly if the teacher uses technical phrases which are meaningless to the average parent. A thoughtful writer has now offered a translation of some of these terms, in "Guide to Pedaguese." Using it as a ready reference book, the par- ent may even find himself try- ing a few words himself Here are some sample _defi- nitions putforward by James S. LeSure: "Climate for learning, 'Cli- mate' here is used in thesense of atmosphere--the atmosphere in which the child attempts to learn. A closer parallel would | a be 'weather for learning,' but that's obviously ridiculous. So 'climate for learning' refers to the total environment in which the learning takes place--the attitudes of teacher and pupils, and physical health of the learner, the weather, inter- national crises,. and countless other situations which might affect the state of mind both of the teacher and of the pupils. Some pupils learn, how- ever, in any climate, and others do not. This is a phenom- enon which. makes both teach- ing and research more. diffi- vu. "Judgmental", Here is: an- other manufactured adjective, which has attained dictionary status by derivation from judg- mént. How a judgmental act differs from a judgment is not clear. Nor is it apparent how 'judgmental approach" dif- y from an intelligent approach. "Knowledges." The origin of this horrendous corruption is probably lost, although not in antiquity. One can only as- Subjects. Nine Day School Courses From Which To Choose individual instruction in all major 'subjects. Complete modern equipment. Placement service for graduates. Special intensive course for students with Grade Twelve standing. GET FREE COPY OF "TRAINING FOR RESPONSIBILITY IN BUSINESS" then ACT Register Now -- Enrolment is very Limited Commence TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1966. TUESDAY and THURSDAY Evenings 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Choice of sub- jects -- Shorthand -- Typewriting ----- Accounting -- Business Machines. Classes for Beginners and Refresher Courses in all HOUSEWIVES Special courses aré available for housewives and other mature women. Attend mornings or afternoons -- Choice of Subjects. SHIFT WORKERS inquire about wien courses available for those 'unable to attend regular classes. 10 Simcoe Street North, FALL TERM opens Tuesday, Sept. 6 'Oshawa Business College "A College Where Careers Are Born" Matcoim C. Barnett, Principal CLASSES Oshawa 725-3375 'tion F CRE ee BES Oe eo a aes sume that it is intended as an obscure and useless synonym for 'knowledge,' for no other meaning seems evident. Since one can multiply 'know' into 'have a knowledge of,' appar- ently someone concluded that one could also 'have some knowledge." Ah me! "Orientation. Establishing po- sition or determining -- bearings by first deciding which direc- is east far antedates American public education. Educators are fond of the word, however, 'and use it often, usually with reasonable accur- acy, as in 'orientation meeting,' for new teachers before the beginning of the school year. Every so often, however, we find orientation being . used as a cover-up for "brainwash- ing,' sometimes referred to more 'mildly as 'indoctrination.' ORGANIZE SOUVENIRS TIMMINS, Ont. (CP) -- The chamber of commerce is giving away specimens of gold-bearing ore to visitors to stop them from chipping 'away at the 15-ton ore display outside the city. Tour- ists collected more than a ton of samples from the chamber's office in three weeks. BOYS UNDERTAKE TRIP WINNIPEG (CP) -- Two brothers from St. Paul, Mian., came through Winnipeg on a 3,500-mile bicycle trip. . Andy. Knapp, 18, and Steve, 15, hope to pedal across the Prairies to | + the Canadian Rockies and then ride homewards through the United States. It all depends on how much that is fed the orientee is fact and how much fiction."' 1OA THE OSHAWA. Times, Tharedey, August 25, 1966 Os wt. i liG1esa. 5 'A three-room addition, includ- ing a kindergarten and an all- purpose room at St. Theresa's, 'least end of Whitby, is under construction and will be ready for occupancy early in Novem- ber. An all-purpose. room at St. John The Evangelist . will be completed and usable for Sep- tember. Denis O'Connor High School will teach Grade 13 for the first time: this year and elementary 'schools will be taught oral French in Grades 5, 6, 7 and 8. New teachers at St. John The Evangelist are: Sister Mary Gregory, principal; Sister Mary + Annette, Miss S. Laronger, Miss Betty Chambers, Miss Colleen Citzmaurice, Miss Bonnie Allan, Mrs. Anne-Marie Thomson, Miss Colleen Enright, Mrs. Theresa Corrigan and Mrs. Mary Corrigan. Mrs. Doris Chomko has been transferred from St. Theresa's and moved to St. Bernard's School. St. Theresa's separate school has four new teachers, They are: Mrs. Helen Vandeloo, Miss Linda Hughes, Miss Carol Wood and Miss Marianne McAllister. Mr. Errol Lawsen aad Sister Mary Mildred are two Denis O'Connor Catholic school teach- ers. The Whitby Township Board of Education has approved a four-room addition at Kedron Public school that will begin construction immediately. The work will cost $100,000 and con- sist of a kindergarten and three other classrooms. Until completion, pupils of East Whitby Township will be accommodated in the Kedron United Church Lower Hall, Mrs. Gertrude Hewie, Osh- awa, has been engaged to teach the kindergarten class and Mrs. Kathleen Magee, previously at Raglan, will move te Kedron to fill the vacancy in Grade 2 and 3. TO THE MERCANTILE ... AND THEN TO SCHOOL! GIRLS' GYM SHORTS la Royal Blue and Red ~_ Boys Gym Shorts in Royal Blue and Red SCHOOL SWEATERS GYM BAGS GYM SOX FULL LINE OF CLOTHING FOR BACK-TO-SCHOOL ATHLETIC SUPPORTS | MERCANTILE DEPT, STORE Whitby Plaza -- Free Parking -- Open Friday 'ait 9 eM. CCST SS SS SSS FSCS SCS SCTE SSO RCS BSE BR eRe ees"