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... .. The Summerville News, Thursday, May 15, 1986
Vocational Education Offers
‘Hands-On’ Learning Approach
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
For students more partial
to the “‘hands-on” -?rou:h to
learning, Vocational Education
offers an incentive to stay in
school and prepare for the
world of work. Within the voca
tional education Sci':fm at
Chattooga High special
needs students are served by
the Related Vocational In
struction pr%nm (RVI) coor
dinated by Mike Miller.
Miller works with students
who need special heli in
reading or math, or who have
some physical handicap. He
fifis each student develop
DG imauiity it e futne
ility in ture.
; Inadd!tion, a number of the
students are placed on }obs
through RVI and the Jobs
Training Partnership (JTPA)
program,
“We have a work in, work
out program where students
are assi(filed supervised jobs
around the school and also at
{'fib sites in the community,”
iller stated. ‘‘Several
students work befgre school
time maintaining the i
lots at Red Food Sm
Wal-Mart. Through JTPA, we
have placed a student in
maintenance at Summerville
Junior High. Another works
for the Summerville Recreation
Center. Ten students have been
placed to work throughout the
summer."”’
According to records kept
by Miller, the program has a
job placement rate of 80-87 per
cent over the past several
years. Students are placed in
public work related jobs, such
as the Menlo Housing Authori
gy. as well as in private in
ustry, such as local mills.
As they learn the basics of
getting and keepinf a job, the
students are also learning to
help others who are less for
tunate. Several hours of class
time are devoted each week to
helging special education
students from Pennville School
with simple aEriculture and
shop projects. Each RVI stu
dent takes a Pennville student
as a partner. With Miller's
supervision, the RVI students
have demonstrated such basics
as how to use a hammer, and
how to transplant a tomato
seedling into a garden plot. The
special ed students are able to
increase their skills and
understanding through the
partnership. Each partner
gains a sense of
accomplishment.
A great innovation in this
aspect of the program was the
purchase of a power saw with
special safety features. The
saw blade will cut through
wood, but will not cut hands
that accidentally come in con
tact with it.
According to Miller, it is
the onli; piece of power equip
ment that is safe enough for
special ed or handicapped
stifdents to use.
“If you really rut a lot of
pressure on the blade, I sup
pose you could make it break
the skin,” Miller stated. ‘‘But
it will not cut off a finger like
regular power saws. Before we
had the saw, we could only use
hand tools in our projects with
the Pennville students.”
Miller stated that a portion
of the saw’s SI,OOO cost was a
ift to the students of RVI
?rom the manufacturer, AMI,
Ltd of Delaware.
The RVI program was
developed in part to comply
with federal law which requires
that each child be educated in
his least restrictive
environment.
*“We hve one legally blind
child and we have adapted his
curriculum, through the use of
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special tools and materials,
where he can achieve,” Miller
stated. “‘ln the same way, we
provide for the Pennville
students and for all the
children who need special help
in the program.”
Just as the RVI students
hellfi the special ed students,
Miller works with his RVI
students as they participate in
their regular vocational
classes. If a student has trou
ble in auto mechanics or home
economics due to a learning
disability or handicap, Miller
acts as a resource, spending ex
tra time with that student in
addition to the normal instruc
tional time given by the regular
teacher for that course.
“My main objective for my
students is that they become
contributing citizens and not a
parasite on society,” Miller
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class have recently completed work on a
planter at Wal-Mart. At the store's re
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The '{)urchase of a sgecial power saw,
which is safe for use by handicapped or
special ed students, has enhanced the RV
Pro?am at Chattooga High School.
‘Before we had the saw, we could only use
hand tools in our projects with the special
stated. ‘1 want them to take
pride in their work and become
‘invisible citizens' who live
their own lifestyles and are not
dependent upon others.”
The RVI courses give a lot
of students the incentive to
stay in school and graduate, ac
cording to Miller’s observation.
‘“‘Statistics show that a lot
of kids would become
discoureeged and drop out of
school if these services were
not provided through RVI,” he
stated. ‘‘Not every student is
goinfi to attend colle%e. Voca
tional education and RVI pro
vide a place for students who
are more oriented to hands-on
work instead of academics.”
The RVI curriculum in
cludes woodworking, the op
portunity to work with com
puters using educational pro
grams; work opportunity, and
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learning job skills.
By teaching how to get
along with employers and co
workers on the job, Miller is
working toward a second goal
for his students:
“l want my students to
have emEloyment for the rest
of their lives,” he stated,
A major project for RVI
each year is raising and selling
garden plants. The students
start the plants indoors and
later trans%ant them to out
door plots. When the seedlings
are mature enou%h they are
sold as bedding plants.
“Part of the lesson is to
figure out the cost of the seed,
otting soil and materials,”
Kfiller stated. “We try to make
some monei'l back for the pro
gram by selling the p}»\lants."
RVI is in its eighth year at
Chattooga High Schoo{
them to outdoor garden plots. Figuring
the expense of growing the plants versus
the proceeds of sales is part of the project.
Above, Tommy Dye, 15, of CHS dii)splays
glfill;igold seedflngs. Staff photo by Kay
ott.
through the RVI proiram. Pictured from
front row, left to right, are Melissa Col
lier, Melissa Shell and Rita Reed. Second
row are Fred Powell, Mike Miller, instruc
tog;b and Jeff Warren. Staff photo by Kay
Abbott.
ed students from Pennville,”” stated Mike
Miller, RVI instructor. Above, John
Sanders demonstrates the saw while Tom
my Dye and Miller observe. Staff photo
by Kay Abbott.
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