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THE HERALD Wednesday Augusts Page Premiers council report offers no new insight Cooling off Cooling off Treating himself lo an com Colt cools himself off from the hot wed her th it hit the last Temperatures reached l Herald RECYCLING Il only works If we nil do our pari Please Remember to Recycle This Newspaper Fashions For The Young At Heart MAIN ST S GEORGETOWN Acton From Church BakefY British Bakers CAKES A I or all occasions British Breads Pastries n 330 Guelph St Georgetown ACROSS FROM NEILSON S 00 ft if SHOPPING SPREE VALUE STORE SAVE Off the regular price on a IlirOo Central Vacuum System for your home Values Effective Until Closing Aug SHOP LIGHTS UVING LIGHTING 245 GUELPH STREET Georgetown tAAA The Herald A Premier s Council report which warns that Ontano could face a skills crisis doesn provide any new insight and comes after the says a Halton Hills school trustee Halton Hoard if n trustee Arlene Bruce Mid Premier David Peterson s council report People and Skills In The New Global provides recommend which have concerns for at the board to the report the council is concerned the education system cannot produce enough skilled labor to meet the needs of a quickly modernizing technical in dustry It also slates the tage of jobs classified as unskilled are rapidly decreasing in in dustnes such as the auto industrj More than half of the new jobs in Canada require Grade 12 educa tion or less but in 10 years only 17 per cent of those jobs will only re quire Grade education the report said The council also identified made quale literacy skills as a disturbing escalator toward a skills many people entering or already in the work force are not able to read at set of simple instructions or understand a graph the reports said The board already completed its survey and research project on the attitudes toward match and science last year said Mrs Bruce She continued to say that boards across the province are concerned and have been looking for ways to change attitudes about those sub for years The council believe that technology and careers must made more attractive and viable for students Industry as well as the education system must make an effort to sell the benefits of skill ed labour the report claims Not all opportunities will be in white- collar occupations it staled In dustry can assist educating youth about labour sponsoring career education providing updated information and co operative education programs the report concluded The Board of Education has been ffer coop programs for students in several fields in finance positions Mrs Bruce insists Milton schools an extensive coop program net work with its surrounding in dustrv she said The public could be getting a report card on the performance of students all across Ontario if students are tested through in dependent evaluations if the coun comes into action But the report card which would identify the progress of students could cause problems if teachers only teach for the test said Mrs Bruce Excellence based on high marks ignores students who don per form best academically but do well working with hands on projects said Mrs Students who would benefit from coop programs lack the ability to do well enough on tests to qualify to enter into co op programs she said John ihe school board s science said the is to further pro mote math in junior ana grades He believes sparking in terest in math young students by using hands on methods will make and sciences more valued skills Math should not be taught straight out of a textbook but must involve work with matenals and manipulating the environment because kids rn by doing Mr Pet til said s on the end pro duct rather than the production process is to blame for students tick of interest in technology Mr Pettit believes He explained that students take their pur ehases ever food for granted withoul ihout the sciences involved Without oncer for the technology it solved in creating i products students w ill lion why they should take a physics course everyone says is so tough Mr Pettit maintained he education system needs to be reaccessed in order to give students the problem solving flex lbihty and social skills to keep up with a knowledge exploding in Mr Pettit recommends The system needs to do a beter job of showing kids they need problem solving skills he said Mr Pettit blames teaching guidelines for being too content concentrating on details without emphasizing in forrra or accessing and solving skills which are transferable and apply to all aspects of daily life If sti dents are tested through an nuai evaluations to show the public the progress of educa tion the minislrv should reevaluate tests questions Mr added As it is difficult to know what the future requirements of will be students will need to have problem solving abilities to adapt to the Centurv believes Mr Walt Elliot MPP is pleased to announce the location of reelection campaign offices in Acton 25 Mill St 853 2532 Georgetown Street 873 0116 Make sure your name gets on the Voters List To vote you must be registered Campbell 70B Main Street 854 0025 Milton 133 Main St E 875 4220