Albert Campbell C.I.
School Advisory Council
April 15, 1998 Minutes

Present: R. Kiran, H. Chauhan, E. Gray, D. Kilbride, B. Smith, S. Ramachandran, F. Niarchos, B. Dodd, K. Li, C. Quan, K. Li, R. Huisman

1. What's Now New at School Because of Amalgamation and Bill 160

Task Groups and Projects are being run to most effectively deal with the changes. Secondary schools are trying to meet 1250 minutes/week per teacher. Therefore teachers will teach 7 out of 8 periods. Aggregate class sizes will be no larger than 22 students per class. Preparation time/on-calls are cut. Teachers, therefore, will not be free for on-calls. Also excursions, trips, extra curricular activities will be affected significantly. Time-tables will attempt to meet both Ministry guidelines and Federation contracts.

We are in the process of looking at seniority and certification and trying to build time-tables. There will be surplus teachers in the building. We will be staffing according to program. Tonight the Board is making decisions about Adult Education - this could affect the teachers in the building if Adult Education is out of the main stream.

Campbell is expecting 2066 students and 117.5 staff - this includes Special Education, E.S.L. Administration, classroom, library, guidance - the latter two are not part of the staff anymore. Special Ed has 2 teachers, ESL, 6 teachers, Admin 5, Guidance/library 8. One third of the classroom teachers teach only 6 periods, two thirds teach 7 periods.

2. Mathematics Program

Campbell rates 20% above average in Scarborough schools and 18% above the city.

One of the parents said that perhaps the school caters to the oriental population, but Mr. Zolis denied this. Other parents were also worried about the difference in standards between schools. Mr. Zolis said that perhaps the work ethic of students is different here, not the curriculum. Topic by topic the same is done everywhere.

Another concern was the difference in standards among teachers. Mr. Zolis answered that they try to standardize the marking, etc. We discussed whether Math standards were higher now than in years past. In conclusion, yes, they are higher now, and more topics are taught now than 30 years ago.

Suggestions were made to do a survey to ask students what difficulties they were having in handling Math. Mr. Zolis also showed the new models for Secondary Math curriculum to be offered in September by the Ministry.

3. Registration Package

Registration is to be done the week before school starts. The package was self-explanatory. Advice was taken on the Raffle from the School Advisory Council. Most parents agreed it was a good idea.

Help from parent volunteers is going to be sought in various areas. The form is a good idea. The paperwork will be done by the school.

Since 60% of the votes to pass any proposal were not present, this will be done by mail.

4. Next Meeting: - May 27
 

 

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