Education and learning Minister Stephen Lecce created a pay a visit to to Hastings-Lennox and Addington on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 to verify out some brag-deserving instruction options in the place.
Hastings-Lennox and Addington (HL&A) MPP Ric Bresee characterised the take a look at as “fun,” indicating it was “great to do some displaying off” of the regional pupils, their get the job done, and the systems available at faculties in the riding.
In the morning, Lecce visited Limestone District College Board (LDSB) students in the Creating Design Internship System at their building web page in Amherstview, and expressed that he was “incredibly pleased” to be assembly with pupils.
Bresee also expressed appreciation for the team of learners, who he described as “excited to be doing the job on [building tiny homes for the unhoused]. They are giving back to the community… outside the classroom, and executing things with their hands.”
Bresee was impressed by the application produced at Ernestown Secondary Faculty and operate by instructor Dan Fisher with the guidance of John Armitage and Brookland High-quality Households.
That plan can make a “huge effort and hard work toward [assisting] pupils who would not in any other case complete their schooling in many conditions, [to] have the places that they’re snug with,” Bresee observed. “And it was great to see it is a combine of younger men and younger women we all know that we require extra tradespeople in this province… This is the future of our trades sector.”
Bresee additional, “Minister Lecce has been absolutely steadfast in recognizing that the status quo has not generally labored, that we need to carry on to shift ahead and carry on to innovate, to come across methods to get much more learners much more results. We know that traditional approaches have been there, and they’ve worked for a extended time, but they haven’t worked for everybody. And so he’s extremely proud of the competent trades aspect of the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship System and issues of that character.”
Bresee observed that he thinks learners have an essential position to perform in the long run of the using. “I’m actually making four diverse Citizen’s Advisory Panels, a single of them currently being a Youth Advisory Panel. And we’re interesting to the higher schools, which include all the schools in which our college students are heading, even if they’re not in the using.” He gave the instance of Holy Cross Catholic Substantial University in Kingston, which requires in a range of HL&A learners even with remaining situated just outdoors the using.
In the afternoon, the guests took in some classes at Napanee District Secondary University, together with the Modest and Recreational Engine class. Faculty Trustees and senior college directors joined the tour and Bresee explained a superior total of conversation about “some of the points we have to have.”
He observed, “There is extraordinary guidance from our area group from the area organizations [for the apprenticeship programs] but we just can’t go on to rely on that guidance as a base-degree funding design. We want to have whole assistance for the devices and the supplies wanted particularly for people tech plans.”
“You can have 30 learners in a math course, and the textbooks [are reusable] calendar year immediately after year. There is not a whole lot of materials for that math class, for that English class, and many others.,” he commented. “A tech software can’t have 35 students in a woodshop, and just can’t have a woodshop with only $300 a 12 months in supplies for that course.”
“[Minister Lecce] is also amazingly very pleased of the funding that we have place into the distinctive needs programs and the more methods around the college techniques,” Bresee said.
“We are using the services of as quickly as we can. We’ve included 1000’s and 1000’s of employees to the ministry’s overall, if you will,” he mentioned, noting, “it’s normally a tiny complicated in that it is the university boards that are the direct companies. So there are various parties associated here.”
Lecce’s pay a visit to was arranged soon after Bresee participated in an party called “Acquire your MPP to School Day.” Bresee spoke about that knowledge, noting, “I bought a chance to tour that web site, and some web-sites around at NDSS as well… and I was so psyched and so happy of what we’re doing right here in this area that — I definitely did — I needed to exhibit it off to the minister. He’s often wanting for these excellent-information tales to exhibit off the successes of the programs that we’re operating on. So I was able to bend [Lecce’s] ear and get them down here to see what we’ve carried out.”
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