The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10
REPORT OF TEACHERS MEETING

hHEORG VI. lEACdER > NJ LL LIN VI
In accordance with the notice, part of
the teachers of he E. ID. 4. A. and a
few others met in the school house III
District No 8, Somers, Feb 5.h 1916.
The meeting was not called to oder
until two o'clock, there being only three
teachers present at the appointed time
The whole number present, ouriag the
day, was seventeen.
After electing a secretary, the work
of the day commenced with school re-
ports. the President suggested, that,
instead Of going through the usual for
mula, the teachers should speak of those
points, in which they thought, their
schools excelled or failed Thecom-
mon subiect of tardiness was mentioned
by only two or three. From this we
would infer that some Of the numerous
prevertlVes, which have beer mentioned
ct other meetings, are having good Effect.
After the teachers had given theil
reports, the Supt. was called on, and
reported the schools as generally doiag
well. He finds hat more Of the troubles
in schools ars sc from want OF government
on the part o. the teacher, then from
want of education.
The first class Oh the programme was
IN Algebra by Mr.. G. NJ. Smith, but the
teacher had not yet made his appearance
and Supt. Flett conducted an exercise
in Oral Grammar. He commenced by
giving the definitions Of noun and a
verb, requiring the u0ils to give exam
pies of each, and then form sentences
Ofthem. He then gave definitions of
the other parts Of speech and their modi-
fcation, requiring examples in each case.
The definitions were given in simple
language, and thoroughly explained.
He said in teaching tins, he would have
his class commence parsing as soon as
pc sibls, and ,steld of giving Fules, let
them give reason for each assertion.
Mr.. Smith having arrived, now con-
Quoted an exercise in Algebra, subject
Binomial Formula. Tie class which was
chozen by the Supt., consisted partly of
Mr.. Smiths scholars. After explaining
the different parts of the formula the
class was sent to the board TO illustrate
by examples,the powers required having
negative fractional and literal opponents.
After this exercise the Pres. gave us a
shcrt recess, probably thinking that we
needed to rest our brains little.
Wien meeting was again called to
order, it was four ecock. and the e1er-
ciseG after This were necessarily short.
An exercise in Civil Government. by
M Stocker, was welhconducted, show.
Ing mat the seacber and her class had
given the subject careful attention TIE
last exercise of the day was Primary
Reading by Mr.. Carpenter. AS is gem
orally the case with small scholars, some
OF the class seemed to think that the
chief object in reading, was to pronounce
the words as fast as possible, while
others, found great difficulty in pronoun-
cling them at all, even after they had
stopped to spell them. Generally the
pauses were rot minded at all. The
corrections were very few, being made,
mostly, by one member of the class.
Aftes short discussion as 10 whether
didn't" ''shan't," Amt &c. were proper
words or not the exercise closed. Tn en-
followed motion TO adjourn which was
carried. S. AGNES PETRIE
Secretary FRO tenn.
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