The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-27
Normal Institutes for Teachers.
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
DEPARTMENT OF FREE SCHOOLS,
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What we most complain of in our pull.
lie schools is the want of educated and
I trained teachers. AS one of the means Of
meeting this great want, propose, by q
iudicious use of the means placed at my
disposal to organize six Normal Institutes
| in the State, for the training and improve.
ment Of our teachers, that they may have
| clearer views of their duties, and be bet
| ter qualified to discharge them with eff
/ cheney and success.
The best educational talent of the State,
that can be secured, will be employed in
conducting these Institutes. School Off.
GERS are requested to call the attention OF
teachers to the advantages of these 1nsti-
tutes and urge their attendance.
Teachers admitted free of charge.
1 School teachers, school officers and the
public are cordially invited to attend.
For the present year the institutes will
be held at the places and at the times
designated in the following schedule /:
Point Pleasant, Mason County, commence
ing June 1st and ending June 18th.
| Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, com
mencing June Goth and ending July 18th.
Charleston, Kanawha County, com
mencing June Goth and ending July 11th.
Parkersburg, Wood County, commenc-
ing June Goth, and ending July 18th.
Grafton, Taylor comfy, commencing
July 9th and ending July 10th.
Weston, Lewis county, commencing
July 9Th and ending July 18th.
NoTK.-The State Board OF Examiners
will be present on the last day of the SEES:
sion; of the Institute, at each OF the above
named places, for the purpose of examin.
ing teachers who may desire professional
certificates. - -.s.gszD Z.
General Suggestions for Tie Conduct Of The
Normal Institutes for Teachers Of West
Virginia. -. -e -, 49, "a -
The Normal Institutes for Teachers of
West Virginia shall be devoted exclusive
" to the instruction and training of the
Teachers OF the Free Schools, in the art
of teaching and OF managing their Schools,
and in explanation and illustration of the
best methods of impsrting instruction.
securing attention and enforcing discip-
line.
The Principal Instructor will cause
complete roll to be made of all the teach
ers in attendance, with statement Of sex,
residence, and length OF time each has
been previously engaged in teaching; also,
register of daily attendance, and grades
of proficiency in knowledge of the sub
jects taught, and in facility in executing the
required drill exercises in teaching. The
grading shall be from 1 (the highest) to
(the lowesO.
He will organize the Institute as "pri-
mary school consider the teachers in
attendance as scholars, and classify them
into all the grades required in such
misunderstanding the different lessons,
IN each branch OF study, with the time
and continuance of each recitation &c,
so as to afford a complete example of the
proper method OF conducting this import
ant work in every school. The grading
should embrace the studies required for
primary schools in the "School Law" but
no more The instructor should actually
put the test questions By which the grade
OF each scholar may be determined, as
though he were dealing with children OF
such grade, that the teachers may thus
be instructed by example how to perform
this duty in opening and organizing
school.
Let schedule of grades, lessons (by
subiects), times of Rotations, &c, be
made out and posted in conspicuous
place, for all to see. ,.e-
At the assigned time the instructor will
call up the members OF the respective
grades and conduct them through their
Rotations, making it his especial
object to illustrate by his ex-
ample the art and y method OF
skillful teaching This should be the
QallV lAUUE dlu VI bnC Au6LILuJC.
When any lesson has been given and
tho method of Teaching is exemplified by
the instructor, he shall then call out
members of the class and require them
to teach the same lesson. He shall criti-
else and correct these drill exercises and,
at his discretion, invite courteous and re-
epectful criticisms also from the members
OF the School.
In every case in which apparatus of
any kind may be judiciously and profit
ably employed, the instructor will take
especial pains to introduce and use it, and
to train the school in its manipulation,
making them handle it for themselves
and apply it to the practical uses for
which it is designed.
The use of the blackboard, both as
means of explanation for the teacher, and
of engaging large classes at the same
work, at the same time, should be ex-
planned and exemplifed and every
scholar trained in using them himself and
in conducting class Rotations with them.
Especial attention will be given to
training in the proper decorum OF
school. Let it descend to the minutie
OF good manners-how to enter, how to
leave, how to behave in the school.room,
the proper disposition of hats, bonnets,
closks, &C., DC. Order in the minutest
matters anu courtesy IN every phase Of
conduct, must be insisted on with scrupu.
Ions persistency. Too much pains cannot
be taken to ertmplity the arts by which
the skillful teacher may secure these i'm.
portant objects. p sH' -, .[z' 4.as 6
Instruction must be given in the proper
method of keeping such registers and Of
making out such reports and all other
papers as are required by the School law,
and every scholar should be required to
produce specimen copies of such made.
out by himself and without aasistances 81
In conducting the instruction and train
ing of the Institutes, the instructors win
use for the various grades the text books
proper to each grade, among those which
are prescribed by the School law of West
Virginia, so as to make the teachers
familiar with the books they are required
to use in their own schools. - s5sEI .s'1e
The instructors will deliver familiar
lectures, at proper intervals, on the best
methods of managing school, of excite
ing the emulation, of fixing the attention,
of stimulating the interest, of securing
the obedience and cultiVatinR the manner,