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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10c Education 13 December 2011 App D Trades and Tech Report 2 Appendix D Formatted:Right Report 1, Education Committee 13 December 2011 REPORT NO. 2, TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY STEERING COMMITTEE TO: Education Committee DATE: 20 June 2011 A meeting of the Trades and Technology Steering Committee was held on 19 May 2011 in the Committee Room with Mark Lafleur, System Principal, Student Success, in the Chair and the following in attendance: STAFF: Lino DeGasperis, Instructional Coach, Trades & Technology Barry Bickerton, System Principal, Secondary David Hogg, Principal W.O. Mitchell Elementary School Kevin Shea, Department Head, Sir Robert Borden High School Kurt Kammersgaard, Teacher, Woodroffe High School Mark Gilliland, Teacher, Pinecrest Public School Clint Vester, Supervisor, Occupational Health & Safety Lynn Laide, Recorder TRUSTEES: ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVE: Nadine Clarke, OCASC, Secondary Anne Teutsch, OCASC Chair Miriam Frye, SEAC REGRETS: Trustee Pam FitzGerald Trustee Kavanagh Colin Anderson, Principal, West Carleton Secondary School Neil Yorke-Slader, Superintendent, Curriculum Services Sue Hemstreet, Instructional Coach, Pathways Claire Bonner, Intermediate Instructional Coach Chris Borzecki, Program Manager, Safety & Emergency Preparedness 1. Call to Order by Mark Lafleur, System Principal, Student The meeting was called to order at 1:37 p.m. Success, as the Chair. 2. Approval of the Agenda The agenda was approved as written on a motion by David Hogg, seconded by Nadine Clarke. CURRICULUM SERVICES 133 Greenbank Tel: (613) 596--8756 3. Approval of the Minutes of 9 April 2011 The minutes of the meeting of the 9 April 2011 meeting were approved on a motion by Kevin Shea and seconded by Anne Teutsch. Introductions around the table were called for by Mark Lafleur and he thanked everyone for coming. 4.Business Arising In the previous minutes, the Multi-Year Plan was referenced as being sent out electronically and it was requested that this be done again. 5. Update School Improvement Plan Coaching Cycle (a) : Trades & Technology Account Lino Degasperis described how he was assigned to Tier 1 and Tier 2 schools to provide support to implement the school improvement plan. Paired with technology teachers, he worked to create positive examples of how to elicit learning; they created lessons and collected student artifacts to determine if student learning had occurred. . Question by Nadine Clarke, how are you invited in to a school? Mark Lafleur responded with a description of how the decision is made to move into schools to support them. Case by case readiness is determined by the principal of the school who then invites Curriculum Services to send in an appropriate coach. In elementary schools, the coaches are based in schools which are ready to move on in the process through reviews. Dave Hogg spoke to the model and described how effective it can be moving from individual coaching to school wide. The practice of reviewing relational work with invitations to engage in the conversations and move ahead in teaching practice and great gains have been made in the past 3 years. The Board Improvement Plan is a balance of qualitative and quantitative information collected through district reviews and built on the review of best practices. We are constantly moving to the next level and getting better all the time. Coaching takes this back to the classroom in the quickest and most effective manner. We are going from good to great. Specialist High Skills Major Account Lino handed out a summary of SHSM expenditures which includes equipment and consumables purchased to support programs and training in specialist programs for SHSM students in the 2009-2010 school year. The column headed indicates where the programs are. There are three important initiatives; the first is new equipment, the second is safety and much of the expenditure is on that. The Woodroffe number is low due to a miscommunication and a larger number for equipment support. SHSM funding is based on the number of students enrolled in the program. It is a 3 year program which will eventually be self sustaining. SCWI School to College to Work The level of understanding of this program is growing. The board has been working with Algonquin to enable students to envision a future after secondary school. Gotocollege.ca - is a great site to help students and parents. Lino showed a video on the college experience. CURRICULUM SERVICES 133 Greenbank Tel: (613) 596--8756 Province wide the graduation rate has moved from 67% to 81%. In response to a question from Anne Teutsch, Mark Lafleur stated that an immediate response is that there is no recognition of where students go after high school. Today there is a greater diversity of student needs, a demanding curriculum achieved in 4 years not 5 and virtually no change in the approach taken by professors at university. Students are bigger, stronger and faster than 20 years ago; they arelearning differently, learning better, and some come with a different background in education and this is not recognized or made allowance for. The skill profile that a student needs to have is greater and it is tougher now than it was. 72,000 students have graduated that would not have 20 years ago. Demographics show that this has resulted in less dependency on the state than there was, a longer life span, less dependency on drugs. Education is believing in things you cannot see. Kurt Kammersgaard noted that for some of brightest students, high school is a hump they need to overcome and they hit their stride in college or university. (b) Trades & Technology Showcase On March 30 and 31, 1800 grade 7 and 8 students visited the Confederation Education Centre to learn about what we can offer them when they get to high school. Feedback showed that this was the most successful showcase we have had to date. It was hard to get them back on the buses to leave. Intermediate Science and Technology (c) Teacher Professional Learning Communities make up a big piece of the portfolio. Kevin Shea helped with three workshops bringing grade 7 and 8 teachers together. It was a fabulous opportunity to share with colleagues. They all worked on a project they could take back to their classroom and as the teachers worked they became more comfortable with the idea of doing the project and more confident that they could do it. Next year we will continue these workshops. Also this year, they have been gathering resources for the classroom that teachers can use. Lino chaired focus groups with intermediate teachers, to come together to bring project ideas that could be put into an electronic format. It is now in the final stages of being put together electronically with the aim of having10 or 12 projects and that will be available on OERB. For example, one project is making an elevator, using pneumatics and levers which are in the curriculum strands. We will investigate translation into French. Skills Canada - Ontario (d) Following local and regional competitions, school teams were selected to move on to the Ontario Technological Skills Competition (Waterloo). After the Kingston regional competition, a group of elementary and secondary students went to the competition in Waterloo. Forty students attended workshops and 12-15 young ladies participated in the networking group. A student from South Carleton won a gold medal in photography and 2 grade 9 boys from Lisgar CI won gold in character animation. They are moving on to the national competition in Quebec City. New SHSM Coordinator (e) The Board has recognized the need for more support in Trades and Technology, particularly in the tracking of students and their credits. Colleen Taylor is the individual CURRICULUM SERVICES 133 Greenbank Tel: (613) 596--8756 who will join the department in the fall. The division has also acquired 2 Winning Attitudes Coaches who will be support to students and will be based in two schools. 6. The meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m. on a motion by Lino Degasparis, seconded by Nadine Clarke. Distribution Action: Neil Yorke-Slader, Superintendent of Curriculum Lynn Scott, Trustee Teresa Kavanagh, Trustee Pam FitzGerald, Trustee Anne Teutsch, OCASC (Representative) Nadine Clarke, OCASC, Secondary Miriam Foy, SEAC Mark Lafleur, System Principal, Curriculum Services (Student Success) Barry Bickerton, System Principal, Curriculum Services (Secondary Program) Colin Anderson, Principal, West Carleton Secondary School Lino DeGasperis, Instructional Coach, Trades & Technology, Curriculum Services Mark Gilliland, Teacher, Pinecrest Public School David Hogg, Principal, W.O. Mitchell Elementary School Kevin Shea, Department Head, Sir Robert Borden High School Sue Hemstreet, Instructional Coach - Cooperative Education / OYAP Kurt Kammersgaard, Teacher, Woodroffe High School Chris Borzecki, Supervisor, Occupational Health & Safety Distribution Information: All Trustees CURRICULUM SERVICES 133 Greenbank Tel: (613) 596--8756