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modern trend in history r by gb harding head of the history dept stouffville dist secondary school the history program at stouff ville pist secondary school is now fully process related its based entirely on ministry guidelines osis and york re gion board of education thinking skills guidelines parents and the public will ex perience considerable difficulty understanding what history and history teaching is up to these idays given this new direction and emphasis j the ministry guidelines empha- isize the skills necessary for the student to become an independent learner i it is with this plan in mind that j our first goal in the history prog j ram is to provide all students with the skills necessary to be indepen dent learners this means the i process skills of thinking prob- lemsolving researching and j communicating both oral and written must be identified taught practiced and learned history is no longer the re- i telling and memorization of de- i tails from the textbook and j what the teacher says or writes i on the board the student must t now learn to identify what the i issues or problems are which is the most important of the issues j or problems and then precede to analyse them through reason and research history is not taking the facts j that have been selected by the l historian the journalist the essayist or the politician for his or t her purpose and bias but rather now selected by the student to deal with his or her issue since prejudice is a natural part of our existence the process en- j deavors to have the student iden- tify and deal with both sides of the issue or problem in the jargonof thinking skills i finding different sides of the issue or problem finding different solutions to the issue and finding ways to resolve the conflicts in the problem is known as divergent j thinking like all skills it can be taught and learned but it sure looks different from the history we used to take when we went to school once the problem has been identified the different sides of the problem identified and re- searched communication of that material must be made there are two ways of doing this either orally or in written form this means the process of writing must be taught and learned how to get started how to introduce the situation and focus the readers attention on the problem and the writers position on the problem how to develop the argument and draw it to a con clusion are now all part of history teaching the basic skills of presenting in written form can be and are re lated to oral presentation and communication process in his tory now means learning the essential skills of identifying thinking analysing and com municating the process now comes under the general heading of problem solving j the process of problem solving is the same we encounter in our everyday world of work and lei sure we have to make decisions on all manner of things every day of our lives- it is certainly the hope of the ministry and this his tory department that students will be better equipped to handle these decisions- having been given the skills to work their way through many situations of an his torical or issuerelated nature the content is still history government politics econo mics sociology anthropology and so on but the emphasis is on the process skills the content is the means to the end and not the end in itself students will learn far more content and remember it under these guidelines than ever before they will make many of the deci sions that govern their lives as they grow and take part in their community and country sabesgffifpjsi j i v- y tribune february 24 1988 a3 ots of action at auction v the sale of property belonging to the late myrtle watson of ux- bridge saturday attracted a crowd of over 500 a heintzman piano remained in the family it was purchased by claude watson of pefferiaw for his daughter mrs pat catherwood above of ux- bridge the price was 1600 x an oil lamp held here by sale attendant john jleppard sold for s95a set of dishes brought 1200 and ah oak dresser with mirror attracted a bid of 450 the sale held at the wilson auction arena beaver road uxbridge began at 10 am and concluded at four i jim thomas honor christian school speakers stouffville public speaking students have been front and centre at stouffville christian school in recent weeks winners from each grade later spoke in the gym placements grades 16 follow grade 1 poem amanda pullan 1st rachel bowler 2nd justin blow 3rd grade 2 poem douglas richardson 1st joshua clubine 2nd alex rea 3rd grade 3 poem carolyn noakes 1st luke fawns 1st elizabeth simmonds 2nd grade 4 poem brianne lake 1st sarah wood 2nd rhonda gooding 3rd grade 4 scripture passage rebecca harvie 1st grade 5 poem catherine evans 1st steven wood 2nd chante gillespie 3rd grade 5 scripture passage jennifer baker 1st owennorris 2nd grade 6 poem sarah chmara 1st grade 6 scripture reading rachel lewis 1st the following students adv anced to the acsi speech festival at the peoples church aman da pullan doug richardson joshua clubine carolyn noakes luke fawns brianne lake sarah wood rebecca harvie catherine evafts steven wood jennifer baker and owen norris several grade 6 students wrote original speeches placements follow jennifer michell 1st jenny grigg 2nd rebecca dent 2nd heather fitton 3rd jennifer michell was a partici pant in the stouffville lions club effective speaking contest the speech festival co ordinator was mrs helen ellis nathan cook 4 of highcrest road rr 2 stouffville makes his way around the rink assisted by a chair nathan attended the prer sbyterian church freeskate friday morning susan fockfer of lloyd avenue stouffville steadies daughter laura 2 as they gudeacross the slippery surface hot chocolate and donuts provide- extra energy all fiveyearold melissa forkun of greenwood road requires is a little encouragement this is provided kerswiu of alderwood street stouffville by heather attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers 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