The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-01-01


ties. students have been received from States
other than Kansas, as follows:
New York, Illinois,
Ohio, Pennsylvania,
GRADUATEs-sENIoR CLASS.
Attic close of the spring term, June 80.
four students, constituting the I'd Grad
uating Glass, received the official Diplo-
ma of the Institution. A brief state
ment respecting each is here given.
MARY ELIZARETH Ella, entered the
Normal School as a delegate from
Hampton, COffey county; graduated at
the age of 10; now teaching in the
school for colored children at Grasshop-
per Falls.
ALICE L. NORTON, of WheatviIle,
Kansas for the purpose of studying in
the Normal School; was admitted on
condition that she should teach in Kan
saS graduated at the age of "a; now
teaching in the primary department of
the public schools of Manhattan.
JOSEPHINE PATTY, of Lyon county
graduated at the age of %; teaching i'll
the city schools of Lawrence.
JOSEPHINE SLOCUM, a delegate from
EmpOria, LyOn county; engaged as a
teacher in school district No. =, Lyon
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The present senior class, which will
graduate in June, 1869, consists of II
members. representing the following
different localities: Allen, Anderson,
Coffey, Douglas, Johnson and LYON
counties, Kansas; Whitestown, Pa. !:
Buchanan, w. Virginia. Eight of these
students are males, four females. The
number who have already had expert
ence as teachers is eight.
1t will thus be seen, from the statis-
tics given above and the facts just reci-
ted concerning the Graduating and Sem
ior classes, that the school is actively en-
gagged in its legitimate work of educa-
ting teachers for the State at large.
MODEL SCHOOL.
1t is as school of practice and OBJ
servation, place where the pupil-teach-
ers can not only see the Normal meth
DDS of instruction brought to the test of
actual use in the school room, but where
they can also test their own powers by
actual teaching, that the Model School
has demonstrated its utility as a neces-
sary adjunct of the Normal School.
by referring to the practice teach
ing of one class in the Model School,
that which last graduated, i shall be
able to show more clearly, perhaps, than
in some other way, how it is that
this department is of benefit to the
Normal students, and at the same time
give an idea of the kind and amount of
special training and practice which the
students receive before being sent out
TO labor in that field where errors are
so fatal, and where success is SO diff
cult of achievement.
Each member of the class, during the
winter term was required, to spend one
hours time each day in the Model
School teaching hal r of fla hnuP and oh.
serving the teaching of some other men,
Der of the class the other half, under the
direct personal supervision and criti-
cism of the Principal of the Mod ell
School and the instructor in Theory Il
Art of Teaching" from the Normal De-
partment. At the beginning of each
month, two students were detailed for
each Model School class taught during
the practice hour; one to teach, the 9TH
er to observe, criticise, counsel and pre-
pare herself by thorough acquaintance
with the class, to teach it the following
month. AT the close of the month, a
public examination of the proficiency of
the class, and the excellence of the teach
ing, was held in the Assembly Hall, iii
the presence of all the Normal students
and teachers. AT the close of these
monthly examinations, transfers of
classes and teachers were made so that
| for each succeeding month, every seuior
had the teaching of different grade of
pupils in a study differing from that she
taught the month before. She was COM
PEELED to teach no class, however, with
whose work she had not become famil-
lar by months previous visiting.
During this teaching hour, the Princi-
| pal of the Model School and the Instruc-
tor in Theory of Teaching employed
their time Ill passing from room to
room where the. senior students
were at work, noting carefully
their management of the several classes,
their methods of teaching, their excel
lencies and defects as teachers, their sue
cesses and iailuI es in calculating difficult
| points in the lessons, their treatment OF
dull and bright children, their
skill in creating an interest ON the
part of the children i'm their studies
their power to command and re-
tain the attention of their classes, ease
and facility in illustration, and also the
manner of the teachers before their pu-
pills, including such items as tones oil
voice, expression of countenance, atti-
tude, gestures, etc. in short, all the
qualities and characteristics which go
together to make up the efficient and ac-
complished teacher.
On all these points, the teachers were
AAOCty NOuhoCtC4p NNtutAOuCOs CA1NASlbChS
and commended, in a kindly manner
but without reserve or stint. When
| errors were committed in teaching or
management, they were promptly point
ed out, and opportunity given for cor
rection without the errors being, as is too
often true ofyoung teachers, suffered to
repeat themselves until they become
confirmed into habit, alike destructive
| to the success of the teacher and the
advancement of the pupil.
| AT the beginning of the year, the
Model School was under the care of Miss
NJ. r. Pitman, lady in possession of
many excellent qualities of head and
heart. She was a graduate of the Os-
wego On. W Normal and Training
School, and her teaching was in accord
ance witlthe methods pursued in that
admirable Institution. Her management
and power to govern the pupils not be-
| ing equal to her expeetation. nor entire
| ly conducive to the best interests of the
school her resignation was accepted, and
Miss Ellen Plumb, q graduate of the
class of 1867, afterward appointed Prin-
cipal Of this department. OF Miss
Plumb's labors, il is but justice TO say
that they have satisfactorily proved her
own capacity for sC0rk, and, what is OF
/ more importance, her capacity for secur-
| ing work from her pupils At no ex-
animation previous to the close Of the
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