The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-02-20
Teachers Institute nj Panton.


Tue annual State institute fer this
County, was held ut Pantou during las.
week, under the direction o. j. IL French
LID. Secretary Of the Board of Edu-
cation.
The citizens Of Panton generously
opened their homes to the bona fde teach
ers in attendance, aud also provided con-
veyance to and from the cars Mt the
opening and close Of the institute.
The services were held in the pleasant
audience room of the Baptist church,
Fifty-fvc teachers were enrolled during
the week. and there were several Superin.
tendcnts and Clcrgymcn present, from
different portions of the county.
From the beginning to the end, the OK.
crcises were emincnty instructive and
practical and the interest of teachers
parents, and the citizens generally, in
creased in enthusiasm to the end
MONDAY.
The forenoon was devoted to proper
organization, under the experienced di-
rection of Prof. Chas. f. Allen of Wis
consin.
The afternoon was occupied with de.
lineation of the Model School, under two
heads, to wit, Teaching School and Keep
ing School Under the first head comes
instruction by means of text books and
general oral exercises, including moral
instruction. The proper order of studies
was also touched upon. Under the Sec
ond head come the organization and
management Of the school
The evening was occupied by Prof.
Allen, with an address, setting forth the
objects of instruction, and the duties OF
parents in relation thereto.
TUESDAY.
During the first hour Prof. Allen pre-
sentcd the Grammar of Arithmetic, in a
very attractive way.
The second hour was devoted to ill.,
struction in the elements of music and
voice training, under the direction of
Miss Taft, of Castleton, the efficient as
sistant in the work of the institute after
the first day.
Then followed singing, and the work of
the forenoon was closed by spelling ex-
ercse. In this exercise several of the
citizens joined. All were surprised and
amused at the failure to write as correct.
ly as they were wont to spell orally.
Tho first hour Of the afternoon was
improved by instruction as to the success.
full method of teaching spelling, followed
by like work upon geography.
The second hour was taken up with
instruction in teaching singing, and in
practice.
Prof. Allen then closed work of the
day by lively talk upon the subject of
reading, during which he gave specimens
of faulty and of good reading. He en-
deavored to impress upon his hearers
three points, first they should read so as
to be heard second, he should be UNDER
stood third he should make his reading
felt.
The evening was mostly occupied with
an address by Capt. a. f. Leavenworth,
Principal of Beeman Academy, at New
Haven. His subject was. The Relation
of the Teacher to His Calling The OBJ.
ject of the speaker seemed to be to Undue
his teachers with something of his own
intense carnestness in the work OF in.
struction, and to impress upon them due
sense of the dignity and responsibility of
their calling. He set forth, with sharp
delineations, the character and work of
the hireling, the routinist, the superficial
ist, and the disciplinarian and then pro.
ceeded to portray his own conceptions of
the work of the true teacher, and the mo.
tives and purposes that should actuate
him. His aim should be to train his pu.
pills for God and Country; for life of
usefulness and of accountability in this
world, and for the glorious companion.
ship of the sons Of God in the world to
come