Teacher evaluations remain contentious idea

Jason Holowka's Grade 7 students are studying for end-of-year exams on a cadre of cellphones: LG, Samsung, Blackberry and the iPhone.

They mill about in what otherwise looks like any junior high science lab of old. The walls are covered in posters of endangered animals. Dangling from the ceiling are red-and-white straws glued into shapes to demonstrate the structural integrity of the triangle.

These are the contrasts of modern education; traditional values facing a generation reared on social media and the Internet. It's a world some teachers struggle to understand, much less teach.

Holowka, a 20-year teaching veteran at St. Helena School is an exception.

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