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Press Wednesday Cln Mill Rtglitratlon Number By Mary Ann Mirth and excited talk of the Mediterranean has ceased to flow In the hall of Acton District High School since the students left for their long awaited trip last Thursday Geography teacher Keith Black was the only staff member from our school to leave too While these students are walking the streets of Rome or shopping in the famous Paris boutiques the remainder are ticking off the days until the beginning of midwinter ration Famed for Josei Last Friday Mr Paul attended school to teach Mr Blacks classes Mr hod formerly taught here and has gained fame throughout the school for his Jokes It was a pleasure to see his tare again and Im sure he enjoyed teaching his former students Sales of this year Oracle have been outstanding this year For the small price of only one could purchase their yearbook during any of the lunch periods As of Monday there were only 34 of the original yearbooks left for selling The Oracle staff is very pleased with the interest shown by the students Hamlet English department has been fortunate in obtaining tickets for Hamlet at the Shake spearean Festival in Stratford The play will not take place until next school term As I said before this Friday Is the last day of school for the period of ore week to enable the students to have a midwinter break Most of the kids deserve it I Sit in on classes An Innovation at the Robert Little School during Education Week was an invitation tparenta to come Thursday afternoon to watch classes at work Those who accepted the invitation slipped into the back of rooms and watched lessons in progress finding it very Interesting Aside from small waves to mummy the youngsters worked diligently while the family ob servers watched In the evening groups of students were back at the school during Open House but principal felt the ternoon program had been especially successful As parents toured the rooms they were able to sec at sewing machines and some baking cookies in the home economics room stop and have a chat and a cup coffee and sample the cookies The art room was beautifully decorated and slides were shown of art done by Grade S pupils accompanied by a recording In another room Grade s were showing a film that the students took themselves of Acton which will be shown at Ontario Place The gym was the scene of bustling activity as students gave demonstrations of their abilities Simulation game of ghetto useful Mr May is a teacher el History Geography at the high school experience with simulation games teaching tools On Thursday afternoon February the staff of Actor District High School became residents of a big ghetto and as such found themselves confronted with the problems of ghetto occupants Brian Skerrett found that the headaches of a guidance counsellor are small In comparison to the problems of a high school dropout forced to resort to crime as a method of survival Rowley came up against the hard cold fact that fellow ghetto residents may be callously unsympathetic to attempts to clean up environment Female start numbers had to wrestle with the problems of large families with very low Incomes and various other ghetto situations Ghetto game The transformation from teaching position to ghetto resident was accomplished by playing the simulation game entitled Ghetto and was all part of a simulation workshop organized by principal Dave Kati The workshop was conducted by Ian Downle viceprincipal at Burlington Central High School Mr Downle has had considerable experience in the use of simulation games at the high school level Assisting Mr were George Munro Social Science Coordinator Phil Kettle Social Science Consultant and Don Thomas area superintendent Learning experience The idea of simulating a real life situation within the classroom and thereby learning from it is undoubtedly not a new idea I am sure many teachers have used the technique In years past however It appears that the use of simulation games as a learning experience is becoming Increasingly sophisticated as more teachers and students delve into this particular teaching- learning technique Perhaps the most obvious advantage In using simulation games is the fact that the situations ore simulated The student can learn to make and implement decisions without suffering the consequence in reality Suffering or prospering in simulation games Is hopefully a useful testflight for the decisions and reactions of real life The simulation game in Its present form is basically a new teaching device at Acton District High School A few staff members have implemented different simulations with varying degrees of success and more attempts are no doubt In the offing simulation games are certainly not the panacea for classroom education but they are a highly useful addition to the teaching profession Councillors give selves pay boost County councillors voted themselves and Warden raises at County Councils March meeting held yesterday Tuesday in Milton The wardens salary will be raised to from and councillors will receive a salary of 000 a year Councillors have previously been paid a meeting Last year salaries for councillors ranged from to for the year Councillors will still receive per diem for attending conventions on top of other convention expenses An amendment to have councillors docked for each meeting they missed with a grace of three meetings was defeated At the same meeting council defeated a recom from the finance committee urging a cut in costs the Wardens dinner bringing It from to Georgetown reeve Rick Morrow said he had gone along with the salary Idea but felt members not attending shouldnt be paid and he did not want to be accused of taking advantage of the system He explained he had to be absent at times because of work and felt he and others in that position should not bo paid Store not for sale Rumors that the Foodland Sore In Acton Is for sale were refuted by store manager Raymond this week He told the Free Press that management Is pleased with the response from shoppers In Acton and area and are looking forward to seeing customers for many years to come PAUL Student turned teacher By Stephanie Merrtn While Mr Black Is on the Mediterranean cruise geography students ore being taught by Mr Paul a thirdyear Honors English major at the University of Toronto He was invited by Mr Katz to spend the week at Acton High He plans to enter law or teaching after graduation Mr first experience with teaching was enlightening If surprising I thought that teaching would be much easier but a tremendous amount of work Is Involved Many more hoars He finds adjusting to the change from his usual hours of classes a week to hours here difficult Although it Is unusual for Acton pupils to be Instructed by a student Mr Perell feels that It is Important for a teacher to never stop being a student Among nls interests are music photography and swimming His home is a farm in Dundas a town near Hamilton Acton High reminds Mr of his old school There is something attractive about small towns he says for people are individuals rather than numbers Curds and Why 13 members arrived at the Kulken home for the third meeting The previous tune they had decided on the Curds and Why as the name The meeting opened with the pledge which was followed by the roll- call and minutes At we ate lunch prepared by four of the girls They made peanutbutter custard and cottage potato salad Last week menu was corn chowder and yogurt Thousand Island Dressing NOTICE TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS the Acton YMCA Facilities are available to Community Organizations for Banquets Meetings Bazaars Etc Donations acceptable for services provided INTERESTED GROUPS WRITE TO Mrs Allan Tremills Box 332 Acton or Phone 8564423