Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), April 3, 1974, p. 35

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courses at Sheridan bring community to campuses New campus ready for spring registration The Burlington campus is settled in its new quarters and ready for spring registration The campus outgrew its facilities at the comer of Line and New Street end relocated in a larger building at Avenue in February Located Just west of the expanding Burlington Mall in a total area of 800 square feet the campus has seven large windowed classrooms a meeting room storage and administration area children centre which will open this month and ample free parking The campus makes available a number of daytime and evening courses in the areas of commercial arts and crofts management studies and this year intro duced new areas including Exploring Humanity From to City Dwellers Modern Canadian Authors and Legal Office Practice Courses normally run 10 and 20 weeks at and New Mississauga Campus The Community Services Division at Sheridan College now operates four campuses including the most recent Campus The new campus located at Port Street at the harbor in Mississauga in a section of the former Canadian Steamship building has provision for about students ma space of 3 square feet Bill Smiciklas has been named campus ad ministrator and will begin immediately to organize special programs to meet the specific needs of in the community which will include day and evening programs for continuing education In addition to commercial business and technical is hoped special interest courses such as sailing navigation boot safety and main tenance will be given using the nearby harbor facilities Prior to his appointment Mr was program director in the Community Serv ices Division at the college during which time he specialized in providing courses to local industries and organized courses to develop management skills Seminars to probe retirement problems Personnel managers him long been conscious of problems confronting cmploees on the brink of retire mint What am I going todo when I don have a regular job logo to every day is an all toocommon question Next month Sheridans South Campus will host a seminar for personnel management to discuss this pertinent and important problem area nations are being forwarded to all employers in the Peel Ha Hon regions and enrolments arc expected to reach capacity almost at once In June a second seminar on the subject of retirement will be conducted and the guest speaker will be the well On Death and Dying The speakers personal researches in this field will provide stimulating ideas for development during the seminar and for ap plication to specific problems by those for both seminars arc now being accepted at the South Campus each Contact the Burlington Storefront Avenue Burlington L7fl2E3at for more information How do you a class In which students different social cultural and academic backgrounds In which students ages range from if to and where new students are the class Stuff in the Commercial Program South Campus have developed a working solution to problem Its a systems in which each student his an individualized timetable and each tench any level of any of the subjects This permits a student to enter a program at an appropriate level based on experience and prior ico lloits and take classes on a personally con venient A class in accounting for example could have dozen students each studying at a ten level while one teacher provides instruction for iJ There are lour programs offered in the series Typist weeks ere Refresher II weeks Accounting weeks Stenographer weeks A personalized record Is kept on each student showing progress and levels attained and every limetnble is subject alteration to suit a students particular needs Special abilities are required by the teachers to enable the program to run smoothly The teacher must know the course insideout so that heshe can deal with students at many different levels in the same class period Teachers are on call throughout the whole day since flexible timetabling requires each subject area to be covered at all times Teachers also transfer from one class to another to accommodate unpredictable peaks and volleys in student attendance The program is unorthodox and may seem chaotic when compared to a normal classroom system But it ensures all students have plenty of personal interest and opportunity to learn he subjects they need at their own pace Students construct agricultural museum In 1073 the Heavy Equipment School an project as the first step in the construction of an agricultural museum at the request of the Ministry of Government Services The scope and nature of the project was to construct feet of roadways 140 square feet of parking lots and a demonstration area about the size of a football field The amount of earth moved was equivalent to truck loads The interest and enthusiasm displayed by staff and students in this challenging project was in evidence on many occasions when the worked in the dast and heat on their own lime to finish on schedule The museum is located on the town line Immediately south of Highway Spring training at Oakville Campus Spring Training always implies an active combination of work and play to sharpen up existing talents and learn new ones And spring training at Sheridan South Campus means exactly that The spring selection of courses offered by the Community Services division includes many op portunities to refresh established skills investigate new areas and ha a good time while doing it Courses range from the intensely practical like typing shorthand and bookkeeping to such recreational subjects as music appreciation crochet and embroidery swimming pool operation and interior decorating courses in the spring program will start in andcnquincsarealrcady being fielded by the staff A complete list of courses plus other pertinent in formation can be obtained by calling at

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