Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-07-23
Teachers Normal Institute.

Grant County Of four weeks dura-
I tion will be held at Bloomington and
Boscobel, commencing at Blooming
ston Monday, August 9th, and contin-
Jung two weeks; then adjourning to
meet at Boscobel Monday, August
10th, and continuing there two
weeks.
4 Three thousand new teachers are
!employed in the schools of our State
geach year. one hundred and t,Centy-
-four persons who had "never taught, "
Sapplied to me for certificates last
sspring. Eighty-three of them re-
aceiyed certificates, add before next
Sspring nifty of them will have taught
ia our public schools. Thus it is
afrom year to year.
Very many of them have received
anothing more than the ordinary com
Smon school education, and they are
agreatly in need of instruction in the
4 Theory and Practice Of Teaching.
ESQ, also, are most of our teachers
awho have been teaching for years
aBut most of them can, if they will
amake the best of the opportunities
4 which will be~otfered them. improve
Sfrom fifty to two hundred per cent
within the next FIVE years. Without
Nthis improvement they can never
Sanything like fully discharge Their
Sduties as teachers.
d This Institute will be held for thC
apurpose of training teachers-espe
acially beginners-and aiding them ir
sjacquiring a better knowledge of THEN
1duties and obligations and better
understanding of well tried and APP
approved methods OF teaching.
a The Institute will be conducted by
IProf W. D. Parker, of GAINESVILLE, as
Assted by Miss Matte Terry, of Nil
swaukee, and myself.
q We are promised aid by the Facul
sty of the State Normal School OF
SPlattevilIe. Also, Messrs. Brooks
8and Bailey Of the Boscobel High
8School, have consented to be present
5and labor with us. Other prominent
educators have been solicited to be
apresent and participate in the cxer.
acises. ..3
A general attendance of teachers
lis requested. Come provided with
Sbooks and prepared to take gener.
cal review of the studies taught in
sour schools. Bring First and Fourth
Readers, McGuffey's or Sanders
Union.
u The Institute will be free to all
awho desire to improve and will labor
Ito accomplish that object.
We hope TO make these meetings
sprofitable by awaking deeper inter
est in the cause OF education, and by
rendering teachers better qualified to
sperform their duties.
The residents of Bloomington and
svicinity and Of Boscobe and vicinity
sSchool Officers, and the friends of ed.
sucation at large, arc cordially invited
to attend all the exercis, ;, particu-
larly the evening lectures, &c.
/ Win District Boards whose schools
viii then be ia session, allow their
teachers to attend2 Be assured that
! il twill pay" we'll to do so.
Board can be obtained at the no.
tells and at priSate houses at reason
liable rates.
A public examination will be held
t Boscobel atlthe close of the lnsti-
tute.
As each day will have assigned to
/ it its particular work not to be re-
peated, TO get the full terefit of the
Institute, teachers should come early
in the morning Of the fist day, and
remain till the final Close Of the In
stitutc. Last year some came in du-
ring the second week, Others during|
The third; but adj such soon regret-|
ted very much that they were not
there at the opening exercises.
W. II. HOLFORD,
County Sup. of Schools.
Bloomington, July Is. 1872.
Witness and Democrat please copy.l