WHILE BUSINESS classes are now
focusing on job-search tech-
niques <and skills marketable in
achanging business world,
some North Shore schoo!s have
also introduced cooperative

view wen, allowing the students
to gain the kind of insight that
most unsuccessful job appli-
cants never have the opporiuni-
ty to hear.

as other courses, Moyle said
that many of his students grad-

uate with extra credits, and they

have what they need to go on
to post-secondary school.

What the class does give the
students is a peek into the real
world.

“So very few times, we can tell
them about something, and
then show them.”

Moyle said he acts not only as
a teacher, but as a menior,
helping the students fo learn
how to project an image that is
accepted in the business world.

NO CLASSROOM ean teach what you icarn while working
ln a business environmont, and secondary school co-cp
programs allow students to do just that. Sutherland
Secondary student Don Gamier is geting some hands-on
experience during his work-oxperiance stint at the

programs, where students
- spend time in the workforce as
part of their studies.

Co-op students at Sutherland
Secondary will go out with a
resume and a letter of introduc-
tion to job interviews, and al-
though program instructor Ralph
Moyle establishes the first con-
tact, the student does have to
suitably impress the employer to
gefthejob.

“Hry to make it as real-life as
possible,” he said.

Employers often give feec!-
back to Moyle on how the inter-

Lonsdale Quay Hotel.

That kind of feed-back can
keep someone from making the
same interview mistakes time
and time again.

Sutherland co-op students
spend two months in the
workplace, while the rest of the
term focuses on the skills they'll
need to get and keep a job.

While there is a misconception
that co-op programs do not of-
fer the same academic benefits

A 4

GIFTED CHILDREN ARE AT RISK IN OUR SCHOOLS
The special kaming needs of gifted earners are an added responsibility w busy classroom

these times of restraint.

The Choice Learning Center is an independent school that has h:ea successfully meeting
the needs of ering: children for the past 7 years. When formulating a specialized pro-
gram for gifted learners, three components are vital to meeting their educational neds:

— curriculum compacting;
— enrichment;

— acceleration of subject matter,

The Choice Learning Center offers these components to students with emphasis on an
individualized program for each student. The school also works with the Affective
Development of its young gifted learners, (aged 5-13).

All students at the school have been assessed by child or clinical psychologists (5

: year olds exemp! :intil 6th Birthday).

Classes are vevy small to enable children to receive much individualized attention (13

studeats pec class.)

All teachers Liave gifted education backgrounds as well as B.C. Certification. Much time
nt with enriched sciences, higher level thiaxing skills, computer classes, fine arts
i Pe eat art classes, language classes, athletics, drama and dance.

ATTENTION: Parents in Richmond and the Lower Mainland: in September, we
will be located in our new and larger facility near the Alex Fraser
bridge — only 10 minutes from the Oak Street Bridge.

Call the school at 325-6311 for further information

All members of the North Vancouver community
are invited to an
informative, interactive and constructive meeting:

“Students at Risk:

A Forum’”’

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Doug Manning

Career Programs Consultant,
Central Okanagan School District

and a Panel consisting of
educators, a parent and a representative
of the business community

to be held on

Thursday, May 21, 1992

from 7:00 pm - 9:45 pm
at the
LEO MARSHALL CURRICULUM CENTRE

810 West Zist Street, North Vancouver

Refreshments will be provided
Please register with Candace 987-6667

Sponsored by the North Vancouver School District #44
Funded by Employment & Immigration Canada “Stay-in-School-Initiative”