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Alternative approach to education modeled in pilot course

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Residential building maintenance course could offer means to gain high school credits, life skills and exposure to trades careers, guests hear at open house
Sarah Douziech, , Westerly News
Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Representatives from local First Nations and the school district were introduced to a new initiative Monday that could provide youth and adult learners in the region with an alternative way to earn high school credits. The open house was aimed at providing information about a new course, Residential Building Maintenance 12, being piloted at Tin Wis Best Western Resort on the West Coast.

The course offers a hands-on way for students to build home maintenance skills for their personal lives, introduce them to trades career possibilities and allow them to attain high school credits in a less conventional way, according to its creator, Jim Lawson.

Lawson is a teacher with the Vast Education Centre in Port Alberni that offers alternative education programs to both youth and adults. A teacher for more than 20 years with the district and a tradesman himself, Lawson said he jumped at the opportunity to develop the program.

"I'm over the top with excitement about this project," he said. The course is the result of input from School District 70 staff, Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council staff and Tla-o-qui-aht and Ahousaht community members. Lawson took that input and sourced a model from a similar course offering through North Island College to create the grade 12 credit course, adding a unit for mold prevention and remediation - a common issue for homes on the West Coast.

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