The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-02-24
EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.

| The Teachers Examinations for th
spring of the year 1881, will be held il
and for Manitowoc county, as follows:
1. City of Manitowoc, at North Sid
school house, Friday ana Saturday
March II and II.
| 2. Meme, at school house near Wal
terbach's, Monday and Tuesday, Marcel
Ia and 10.
8. Cato Corners, Wednesday ant
Thursday. March 16 and IL.
4. Two Rivers, Friday and Saturday
March 15 and 10.
5. Kossuth, at school house neal
Chloupek's, on Monday and Tuesday
March 81 and %.
6. City of Manitowoc, at First Ward
school house, on Thursday and Friday
March 81 and April 1.
The last is a regular examination OIL
subjects for the higher grades of certih.
Gates, and a supplementary examination
on third grade subjects.
The examination at each place opens
at 10 A. NJ, of the first day.
Three elements enter into teachers
qualification. viz: o. Sufficient learn.
ing; CD Ability to govern and manage
a school, and 49, Ability to impart in
struction.
An notIny, {hn o,,4,
learning, including the theory of teaching.
1t does not test him in everything neces.
sary for efficient school work. But,
though high scholarship is not always an
evidence that teaching will be we'll done,
poor scholarship is an evidence that pro-
per teaching is impossible. A person
can not teach what he does not under
stand himself.
Let district boards in selecting teach
ers place a higher estimate on the value
of learning, and good certificates as we'll
as on the value of experience and pre-
vious success. Let them consider good
teacher at fifty dollars a month cheaper
than poor one at twenty. Let them
prefer those that avail themselves of every
opportunity for Improvement, that at
tend institutes, teachers meetings, ETC.
As soon as this is done, and not until
then, will our schools be much better
than they are now. The opinion of some
people, that almost any one can teach q
backward school is very prenicious.
School officers are invited to be present
at any of the examinations. There they
will have an opportunity to get acquaint-
ed with teachers and with the character
of the examinations.
A few suggestions to those preparing
Tor the examination will be in order:
1. Cultivate the habit of thinking
what you read. Read no faster than you
can pick up the thoughts read Thought
less reading is one of the most common
defects of applicants.
2. Learn to analyze any word into its
oral elements; and learn the relations be-
tween the spoken and the written forms
of words.
B. Learn the uses of Webster's Die
tionary, and know how to use it.
4. Learn to present written work in
proper form. Divide it properly into
paragraphs; and give attention to capital
izetion and punctuation.
5. la grammar, give some attention
O. to the uses OF relation words-prepo-
sitions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary
verbs; o. to the infectious of words; 6. J
to the uses of participates and infinitives.
6. Learn the principles of fractions
and of decimal notation thoroughly.
Learn the applications of percentage, and
the common applications Of mensuration.
7. Learn to draw an outline map of
every state in the Union and of every
country in the world. Acquire mental
pictures of CHARACTERISTIC, physical and
social scenery of different lands and zones.
Learn the commercial relations of the
United States to The rest of the world.
s. Study all the great events of the
History of the United States and their
relations as causes and effects.
9. Read carefully some good books on
the theory of teaching,-Gill's School
Management. Johonnot's Principles of
Teaching, Wlckersham' s School Economy
and Bain's Education as a Science, are
excellent works on this subject.
The foregoing suggestions have refer
ence to subjects in the different branches
that have hitherto been too much neg
lected. Let no one think that they indi-
cate beforehand the specific character of
the examination.
G.. T. VIEBAHN,
County Supt, of Schools.