River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-01-27
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
HI. s. BAKER. A. h. Editor
20 County Supt.
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Every teachor tnaC WISHES TO sue
coed in his profession should take
some paper devoted to that art. To
tell the teachers of Pierce county what
ones will benefit them, is the object of
this article. There is as much trash
in this department of literature as in
any other. -
If you desire to keep informed in
regard to the condition of this coun-
ty's schools, their faults, and excel
lencies, this paper is what you need.
1t will be the official organ of the
Pierce County Teachers Association,
and as such, contains many sugges-
lions that will benefit young teachers.
We hope to soon publish a series of
articles on the Methods Of the River
Falls Normal School, by an able writer,
and thus help to set forth the true
mission of an institution but little
understood by the mass of the people.
If you wish to know the state news
in regard to education, to get the le-
gal decisions of the State Supt. and
read able articles upon your art, by
men Of this state, take the Wis. Jour-
nal of Education. It's terms have been
given in this paper. We wish every
district clerk would take it at the ex-
pense of the district and make the
teachers who will not take it them
selves, read it and be benefited.
If you wish to read able articles by
men of other states, to get some very
practical hints in regard to your work
take the National Teachers Monthly,
Chicago, Illinois, published by A. S.
Barnes & Co., at one dollar per year.
1t is the spiciest, sharpest, sauciest
Journal of it's kind we ever saw. The
editors name, Jerry Mahoney, would
Indicate that he is an impulslve man.
The largest and most comprehensive
journal in the U. S., is the New Eng
land journal of Education, published
at Boston, Mass. Terms $500 per
year, and less to clubs. 1t is published
aVeekly, and contains twelve pages of
reading matter, about the size of
Harper's Weekly, besides advertise
ments.. 1t contains pieces for speak
ing in school, dialogues, a Kindergar-
ten department., in addition to the
usual reading. The ablest men in the
East write for it. The articles are
more practical than usual. One who
spends dollar and takes it for four
months, will be richly repaid. The
late improved methods are there
presented in some detail. 1t usually
has some news from our state, yet
it is not local paper. 1t is the king
of educational journals. Specimens
of all the above papers can be seen at
our Office. ~ ~
MISS DENA LARSON teaches splendid
school in district number a, Gilman.
The pupils are still and studious.
THERE are sixty-five counties in the
state. There are twenty-six city
superintendent.
THERE are only SO schools inst. Croix
county, and 95 in Pierce. Yet st.
Croix has more territory.
WE are glad to see that our exchange,
the Kenosha Telegraph, has an educa-
tional department, edited by d. H.
Fleff, County Supt.
WE have found just one school-room
that was properly ventilated. We
mean that-only one teacher has used,
as well as possible, the means at hand,
to furnish good air. Sad, but true.
If your class is young, omit those
general examples just before decimal
fractions, in the practical arithmetic,
when they first pass that point.
LIQUID Stating for blackboards can
be procured of G. E. Davis, River Falls.
1t is better than paint.
THE Word Method is prominently
the best for pupils who are at all eager
to learn. But for young pupils, whose
attention is apt to flag, the phonetic
system is better adapted.-M e.
Journal Of Education.
A great many reading classes are
working in book that is two grades
too high for them. 1t is the case in
schools generally. We have seen class
mangle paragraphs in Third Reader
that ought to have the First Reader.
Parents are largely to blame for this.
They are apt to get a new reader by
the child's request. Teachers should
be careful in this respect. Interview
the parents if they are troublesome.
Pupils that are two grades out of
place, will hardly ever make any pro-
gress, and rarely be fair readers when
their school.days are ended.