The Manitoba Teachers' Society-- 4 Values in Education, by Ronald T
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THE ^^^^MANITOBA ONE OF MORE THAN 400 NEW AND COMPLETELY REVISED ARTICLES IN THE WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA Progress Shows . Progress Continues If World Book editors undertook to treatments increase interest and develop a totally new encyclopedia, clarity. New fields of study open it would be exactly like the 1965 the doors to wider learning. It is, edition! Every important point of indeed, another achievement in the progress has been probed, studied, continuing progress of World Book described by experts, and included Encyclopedia. Explore the 1965 edi• in this basic aid to education. tion yourself. There has never been New, modern art and layout an encyclopedia like it. New and Completely Revised Articles Include: ANIMAL • OCEAN • ASTRONOMY • CAT • CHEMISTRY • CHINA • WINSTON CHURCHILL • DRUG • UNDERWATER DEMOLITION TEAM . LASER . CIRCUS . INDIA . FARM AND FARMING . MONEY . HORSE . DECORATIONS AND MEDALS . PHOTOGRAPHY . LINGUISTICS • JAPAN • ZOO • HYDROFOIL • FISHING INDUSTRY FREE! PORTFOLIO OF PROGRESS describes the 1965 World Book Encyclopedia in greater detail. Sep• arate inserts are included which show editorial and art treatment of subjects in major study areas. Write for your complimentary copy. Mr. Walter Anderton WORLD BOOK-CHILDCRAFT OF CANADA, LTD. Somerset Building, 294 Portage Ave. • Winnipeg 1, Manitoba Editor. HOWARD J. LOEWEN Publications Assistant: MIEP VAN RAALTE Vol. 43, No. 5 March - April, 1965 About This Issue The Building Committee, charged with the preparation The announcement that teacher of plans for the expansion of the Society's building, has education will be transferred to the prepared a report, which appears on page 4. It includes a University of Manitoba campus this number of proposals to be consideied at the Annual Gen• fall has prompted the Dean of the eral Meeting in April. Faculty of Education in Brandon to relate some of the experiences with Sybil F. Shack, a Winnipeg principal teacher education at his college. The and a past president of the Society, article by Dr. W. W. McCutcheon has written another book, 'Armed of Brandon College can he found on with a Primer'. In anticipation of its page 22. release, an excerpt of the first chap• ter, entitled 'Why Teach?', is repro• Further — on page 37 — readers will he able to read duced on page 8 with the permission some quotes taken from the Faculty of Education of the publishers, McClelland and Alumni Association lecture, delivered by Ronald T. F. Stewart Ltd., Toronto. After this Thompson, Superintendent of the St. James School sampling of Miss Shack's writing, Division. In addition, this issue features information per• teachers will, undoubtedly he anxious to read the rest of taining to the Society's 46th Annual General Meeting the hook, scheduled to he on the market in the near and the convention of the Manitoba Educational Asso• future. ciation, to he held during Easter Week. The solution to Canada's present crisis may he found in part through education. This appears to be one of the COVER STORY: This issue's cover is a sketch of the proposed messages contained in the preliminary report of the new building for The Manitoba 'Teachers' Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. Society. The design, to be considered by delegates at the AGM. Editor Howard J. Loewen has taken a close look at the was submitted by Winnipeg architects Libling. Michener and Associates. report and its implications and writes about it on page 21. Table of Contents Special Features Resolutions i i 25 Proposed New Home for The Manitoba Teachers' Society-- 4 Values in Education, by Ronald T. F. Thompson 37 Why Teach? by Sybil F. Shack 8 She Inspired by Example 41 Civil Rights - Another Issue for the AGM 13 Regular Features Automation — A Topical Issue for the MEA 13 Editorial 3 Nominees - 14 President's Message 12 The Canadian Crisis Hits the Schools, Views and Trends, by Lionel Orlikow 20 by Howard J. Loewen 21 Notes and Quotes 39 Learning How To Teach in a College Setting, Readers Write 42 by W. W. McCutcheon 22 General Secretary Comments —. 44 THE MANITOBA TEACHER, the oflicial organ of The Manitoba haitonaf Board. Teachers' Society, is published six times a year and printed for the publishers by Public Press Ltd.. Winnipeg 21. Annual subscription ELIZABETH F. REDMOND $I.00. Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department. _ . „ Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Return postage EMERSON L. ARNETT guaranteed. W ROBERT GORDON Contributions tor publication will be welcomed and must be sub• mitted to the Editor. THE MANITOBA TEACHER. 956 Portage Avenue. HOWARD J. LOEWEN Winnipeg 10. Manitoba. YOURS FOR THE ASKING... valuable teaching material for your classes Use this page as your order form. Mail it (or bring it) to your nearest Commerce branch —or moil to: The Secretary, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Head Office, Toronto. Be sure to enclose your name and address. 1. Natural Resources Map of Canada (English only) Printed in black Q""""*/ Required and white, 1214" x IJVz", A-36 2. Historical Pictures (English only) Size 12" x 14" (a) "An Early Maritime Fishing Station", A-37 -• (b) "Early Pioneer Fur Trading Settlement, A-38 (c) "A Mining Camp of the 'Nineties' ", A-39 3. Booklets on agricultural subjects designed for farmers. Found useful English French for teaching agriculture to Grades 7 and 8, and in Secondary Schools. Illustrated. To obtain our latest Form Booklet and a Requi• sition Form listing other titles, check here 4. Banking Forms for Schools. To obtain a selection of banking forms for classroom use, check here for a Requisition Form giving complete \t of forms available CANADIAN IMPERIAL THE BANK BANK OF COMMERCE THAT BUILDS MP-6II TEACH IN CANADA'S NORTHLAND! PRESENT SALARY SCALE $3,600 to $11,280 (Depending upon Qualifications and Expeiience) PLUS: Special Northern Allowance, $648-$2,100 (Depending DUTIES: upon location and marital status). In addition to regular teaching duties, teachers may PLUS: Administrative and Supervisory Allowances for be required to participate in community activities, Principals ($300-$4,225); Assistant Principals ($150- including adult education. $1,100); Teachers in one-room schools ($200). TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: (a) Teachers are on duty 12 months each year with three PLUS: Bonus of $300 per annum for Home Economics, weeks' annual holidays, including certain travel allow• Commercial and Industrial Arts Specialists. ances. Annual Increments of $240 to $300 per annum according to salary schedule. (b) Six weeks' educational leave with pay — within each three-year period of service. POSITIONS AVAILABLE: Commencing September 1965: (c) Transportation from place of recruitment to place of appointment in northern Canada and return on separ• Teaching positions in schools with one to 48 teach• ation, provided the teacher has served at least one ers; Principalships; Vice-Principalshlps; Teachers academic year. for Industrial Arts, Home Economics, Commercial, (d) Furnished housing. Including heat and electricity avail• Physical Education and Teacher-Librarians. able at reasonable rent. Because of local preference QUALIFICATIONS: for technicians, tradesmen and labourers, married accommodation is not available for married women (a) Elementary —A First-CIass Teaching Certificate. teachers whose husbands are employable. (b) Secondary — Certification equivalent to basic re• (e) Rations supplied at cost in centres where there are quirement in provincial secondary schools. no commercial suppliers. DETAILED INFORMATIDN: For a copy of "Teach in Canada's Northland" and appUcation forms, write to: Education Division, Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 410 Kent Building, Dttawa, Dntario. 2 The Manitoba Teacher Bill 39 rpHE GOVERNMENT is to be commended for intro- divisions have more than 40 school hoards each and that ducing legislation into the House recently which carries one division, Lakeshore, has 119 school boards. out one of the major recommendations of the Michener But this is not the only or the most serious deficiency Commission. The legislation provides for the transfer of all in the requirements that must be met before a referendum financial and most administrative responsibilities for ele• can be submitted to the electors. In a school division with mentary education to the division board. This will make 20 school districts, 10 of the smallest districts, with only a possible the establishment of school areas similar to the small proportion of the total pupil enrolment in the divi• Dauphin-Ochre River School Area which was established sions, can successfully prevent the holding of a referendum in 1946. It will make possible the modernization of the by refusing to endorse the petition. Gonversely, in a divi• school system in the predominantly rural areas of the sion where one district has over half of the total pupil province and should enable these areas to offer educa• enrolment, that district, by refusing to petition for a tional facilities comparable to those now provided in the referendum, can successfully prevent the holding of a large urban centres. referendum. The Bill has one major flaw, however, that will thwart, Legislation that invites and condones such a travesty if not eliminate, the possibility of school areas being estab• of the democratic process is unacceptable under any cir• lished in the 37 school divisions in which elementary cumstances. If the Bill were to he enacted in its present education is now the responsibility of numerous school form the critical need for modernizing our school system districts. would he postponed indefinitely. The Bill requires that a referendum be held in each school division and that a majority of the resident electors approve the establishment of a school area before the transfer of responsibility can be implemented. This in itself Teaching Reading rules out the school area in many parts of the province because of local jealousies, fear of loss of local control over rpHAT HARDY PERENNIAL - reading - that stimu- education, and lack of confidence in the division boards lates so much controversy hut a somewhat lesser which would be responsible for administering the school amount of wisdom has once again blossomed forth hut area.