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After a decision last week by the York County Board of Education, to discontinue the secondary level of the Master Teacher Program, taxpayers might view this move as a money-saving effort. Naturally if there are fewer positions, fewer salaries have to be paid out. However, if parents and anyone else con- cerned did not ask themselves what a master teacher is or does, before passing off the decision as a natural one during a time of cost cutting and ,fiscal restraint, they were missing something in their understanding of education in York County. Sam Chapman, director of education for York County, was instrumental in developing the concept of the master teacher. It was actually an idea he came up with when he was superintendent of education for the old York Central District High School Board of Education in 1962, one of the. boards-amalgamated into the York County board in 1969. Back in the early ’605, the teachers under the old board were inspected and received an average rating of 4.3 on a seven- point-scale. Mr. Chapman felt this meant either there were as many poor teachers as there were good ones or that most of the teachers in the system had only average ability. In keeping with the board‘s policy of high quality education for all students, it was Mr. Chapman‘s task to hire better new teachers, retain good teachers (many of whom were often attracted to Toronto) and improve the quality of the teachers already on staff. It was this latter goal that gave rise to the master teacher program. 3: DIRECTORY OF RELIGIOUS SERVICES FOR THE WEEK V ‘ :szWWr-W ) ¢ N”’$‘W/Xm*"flerM‘)$$*y‘-Ki Master Teacher Lorraine Mandelbaum directs three of her artistic students in the finishing touches of a giant mural they painted on a classroom wall. The scene is an abstract of Torontoâ€" the road is the Don Valley Parkway. Master teachers: specialists who do pro ve their skills By STEVE PEARLSTEIN Richrnond Hill Clergy:Rev. Bernard Banefl 884-1394 Rev. William Prentice 883-4149 Rev. Fred Jackson 884â€"2418, Serwces: Sun18 am, and 10:30 am Wednesday 10 am » 1215(noon) RICHMOND HILL UNITED CHURCH ANGLICAN BAPTIST HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (ANGLICAN) BROOKE ST., THORNHILL S. OF HWY. 78 W‘ 0F YONGE ST 889-5931 Liberal Staff Writer 30 St, Mary’s Anglican Church 10 030 Yonge St 884-2221 arr UNITED .m. Holy Communion m,_ Morning Prayer rm. Nursery School only am. Morning Prayer am. Church School Krnder- 81 Nursery School Wednesday«10:00 am Holy Communion Late and Church School t0! md youth to 14 yeats. ter Rev. Robert Shorten nd. 1978 at 11:00 AM EASTER PEOPLE" APRIL 2nd LOW SUNDAY and Centre Streets 884-1 301 Youth Servnce “Back in 1963, I defined the job before I went looking for people,” said Mr. Chapman. “They are obviously specialists but they also had to be generalists â€" the best of what all the other teachers could be." He said he didn’t want master teachers to have authority, something that could be used as a threat against the teachers they had to consult with. A third criterion he set down was that master teachers had to be close to the rest of the teaching population, to be readily available at all times. Mr. Chapman frowned on the idea of making the master teacher a “head quarters person". Finally, it was decided master teachers would not be co-ordinators o'r consultants in the normal sense but be able to prove is spent consulting with other teachers on a wide range of important subjects recognized as professional develop ment. It is clear master teachers are more than the regular classroom teachers. Three years after Mr. Chapman made his assessment of the York Central teachers and initiated the first five master teacher positions, teachergratings rose to an average of 5.6. If the concept of professional development was relatively new in 1963, then the master teacher program had to be viewed as the most innovative of its kind. A master teacher has a dual role in that 40 per cent of his or her time is spent actually teaching in the classroom. For that part of their job, they are treated like any other teacher in the school â€" directly responsible to the principal and having no special classification. The other 60 per cent of their time, the portion designated as the main business of the program, Youth 8. Adult Studies 8. Praye: -Nursery Availableâ€" VISITORS VERY WELCOME Agegraded meetings at 7 pm Christian Service Brigade for Boys also Pioneer Girls BAPTIST CHURCH 9:45 am. - Church School F0! Bus Ministry call 881-2818 11:00 am. - Moming Worship (Member Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec) RICHMOND HILL 50 WRIGHT STREET TELEPHONE: 884-3091 Serwces 9:45 am. Sunday School 11 am. Morning Worship 7 pm. Evening Service vTuesdays Each Week Chmch Family Night Supper: 5:30 to 6:30 pm. Rev. E. Corbett. Pastor Minister Rev. Dana H. Lamb ST‘ JOHN'S BAPTIST CHURCH 75 Oxford Street They also get an allowance of $3,700 per year for the 60 per cent of their time spent for professional development and consulting. These allowances are drawn from that line of the budget having to do with planning and develop- ment. “That's why a master teacher can be holding a‘ class at any given time during the teaching portion of the assign- ment,” said Mr. Chap- man, “and invite other teachers in to demon- strate their abilities and let others learn by example. 'This also tends to keep the master teachers involved with the system.” Financially, master teachers do not cost the board or the taxpayer an exorbitant amount, on a per capita basis. For budget purposes, the board always isolates these teachers‘ salaries because they really come from two different ex- penditure accounts. They are paid out of the same school operating budget as other teachers for the time they spend in the classroom (40 per cent). “He had the foresight to see it was going to get 'cut off someday or trimmed and he created a type of consultant that wouldn’t cost our school system as much as it costs other boards. Yet the quality of his consultants is even better than those other boards in some ways because it’s enhanced by our constant experience in the classroom,” said Mrs. Mandelbaum. She claimed that in 1964, there was a lot of money being spent in education, that there was all kinds of money available in the ’605. what they talked about by actually doing the work in the classroom. Grade 10 Thornlea Secondary students are Lori Longstaff, 16, John Connor, l8, and Gary Curley, 15, (background). (Liberal Photo by Steve Pearlstein) 9:30 am. 11:00 am PREACHING THE OLD BOOK THE NEW BIRTH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD AND THE BLESSED HOPE AT WELDRICK ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH Corner of Weldnck Road and BaThurst Street Rev. Bl McSpadden Pastor Phone 884-7859 10:00 am. - Bible School Classes f0: all ages. 11:“ am. -Mormng Semce 7:00 pm. ~EVening Service LUTHERAN Prayer meetlng Wednesday at \ 8:00 pm. An 0|d Fashioned Country Church on the Edge of the Crty A.E. Atkinson MlnlStEI ~ 669-1831 A‘ Young - Sec. 669.2784 SUNDAY SERVICES 9:45 Bible Classes 11:00 am. Morning Service 7:00 pm. » Communion Service WEDNESDAY 8:00 pm. - Bible Study SUNDAY 12:30 pm. Watch "The Helald of Truth" TV Channel 3 Barrie CONCORD CHURCH OF CHRIST Concord Rd, 8. No. 7 Hwy. A Church of The New Testament Order J.S. DAUPHINEE. PASTOR 31‘ PAUL LUTHERAN 10131 Bayview Avenue Sunday Church School WOIShID Serwce Those who are secure in their jobs don’t hesitate to call on a master teacher to discuss their needs or improve their classroom techniques. If a school and, ultimately the board, realizes an inept teacher is not using the available resources to help himself improve, his position could very well become untenable. It is the teacher who is respon- sible for his own professional growth and, if he doesn’t do anything about it, he’ll have problems because the demands of education are steadily increasing. spend the greatest portion of their time aiding and consulting with regular teachers. Some of the finest teachers in York rely on their services. Pondering the dilemma the board has created by eliminating the secon- dary panel of master teachers, Mr. Chapman said: “There are things that have to be done. We will get them done, possibly by inventing other programs -â€" but they will get done." WEDNESDAY 8:00 PM. Bible Study and Prayer 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 7:00 PM. THORNHILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 271 Centre Street 889-5391 7 The Revd JrB. Burns, M.A.. 8.0.. Ph. D Organist: Mr. Christopher C Hunt‘ MusBacr, A.R.C,0. CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 26 CHURCH ST., THORNHILL PASTOR: F. BOND 881-6590 Presbyterian 10:00 am. Adult Bible Study 11:00 am. Divine Worship (Chuldten begin Church School -m Church with palenls) 12:15 pm. Presbyteen Gmup 7:30 pm. Lenten_Chora| SerVIce In Thornhlll Unuted Church. . PENTECOSTAL Service at 10:30 am. and 5:00 pm Other Denominations BETHEL CANADIAN REFORMED CHURCH 148 Thornridge Dr. Thornhill Minister Rev. J. 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