Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-08
TEACHERS INSTITUTES.
How They VIII be Conducted In Mid
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The four Teachers Institutes for
Middle Tennessee, under the authority
of the State Superintendent, will be
held as follows:
At Shelbyville, July 20
At Columbia, July q
At Lebanon, August 3.
At GAINESVILLE, August 10.
Each Institute will continue in SEES
sion one week. During the daytime
instruction will be given in school
government, and in all the branches
required to be taught in the public
schools of the State, as well as in the
best methods of teaching those branch
es. The evenings will be devoted to
public lectures from persons of expe-
rience and eminence as educators and
friends of education.
These Institutes will all be under
the professional charge of Prot. W. r.
Garrett, County Superintendent for
Giles county, assisted by Prof. III. H.
Smith, of Shelbyville, and others
They will be open to. teachers from all
parts of the State, and teachers of
private schools are respectfully invited
to attend and participate in the exer-
cises.
The County Superintendent of Bed
ford, Maury, Wilson and Montgomery,
respectively, will be expected to su-
perintend whatever local preparations
may be necessary for the holding of
the Institute and the entertainment of
teachers.
At each Institute, there will be three
sessions day, as follows
Morning sessions from 9 o'clock, A.
NJ. to II o'clock, NJ
Evening sessions from 2 o'clock, p
NJ, to $50, P. NJ.
Night session from s P. NJ, to 9:3(
P. NJ,
During the first three days, classes
will be drilled in the various branches
embraced in the school law, followed
by discussions, in the order given be-
low:
MONDAYS.
Morning session-Writing and Uni
ted States History.
Evening session-Spelling and read
ing (chartand card method explained.
TUESDAYS.
Morning session-Geography (witl
map-drawing)
Evening session-English Grammar
and composition.
WEDNESDAYS.
Morning session-Primary arith
metic. t
Evening session-Practical arith
metic.
I On the remaining days, Thursda!
and Friday, the Institute will be con
Quoted as school, class recitation
regularly heard, and the order of ex
ercises announced every morning.
NIGHT SESSIONS
will be devoted to public lectures OF
educational and literary subjects.
During the session of the Institute
essays will be read on
School Discipline"
''Calisthenics. u
''Object-teaching"
Best methods of securing the co
operation of parents"
Relation of education to futur,
life" and other educational subjects
Each County Superintendent is urg
ed to attend the Institute located near
est to him, and to use all means in hi.
power to induce the teachers of hi
county to do the same All schOo
officers and teachers are cordially in
vited to attend and take part in tn,
exercises. The advantages to be de
rived from mutual and cordial in
terchange of views among educator
cannot be over-estimated. The publ,
are no less interested than educator
in the introduction of uniformity anC
system into the schools of the county
and they are requested to be present
Preparations have been made, a
the points where Institutes are held
to entertain those who are in attend
ance. The only cost will be travelling
expenses. Do not lose such an oppor
tunity III. r. GARRETT,
HI. III. SMITH.
July -, 1874.