Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-10
sTATE CONVENTION
OF Teachers and County Superintendent
in This City Oh the 23d 1nst.-Pro-
eramme of Proceedings.


in This City Oh the 23d 1nst.-Pro-
gramme of Proceedings.
The REGISTER has from time to time
published the proceedings preliminary
to the holding OF the Grand Convention
of teachers and superintendents in tins
city week after next, and We take great
pleasure in being able to furnish to our
CITY. as we'll as interior, patrons, the
complete programme OF proceedings Tor
the week, as follows:
WEST VIRGINIA SUPERINTENDENT CON
vExrIoN AND TEACHES INSTITUTE.
Wheeling, w. Va, November 23d, oath,
18th and 26th, 1881, in the Hall OF the
House OF Delegates, at the Capitol.
Observation-Disclosures +. Y. DeGraf,
Superintendent Paterson Schools, New
Jersey; Hon. James II. Smart, ex State
Superintendent Indiana; John b Peas
lee. Phi. d. Superintendent Cincinnati
Schools, Ohio; Hon. J. J. Burns, Super.
intendent Chiliicothe Schools, Ohio;
Professor A. l. Wade, disappointment
ent Monongalia county, West Virginia.
CoHsrLrIUs or INSTITUTE WORK.
Prof. DeGrafi's work will be rs ioI-
lows:
Teaching and Treatment OF Childre".
|. How to study the art OF teaching.
II. How TO teach the child To read.
Ca) How the child learns to talk.
Cb) Object, idea, word, association.
(c) Script, blackboard work.
ldl PhOnics, when to teach.
tel Unity o the word, object, SEN
tence, script and phonics methods
OF reading.
III. How to remedy bad habits in
reading.
TAI H"sitancy.
to- Unnatural tones.
(c) Too rapid reading.
". How to teach spelling; first,
second, third and fourth years work.
V. How to teach language, compost
ton. punctuation and use OF capitals.
VI. How to teach reading; how TO get
the sense OF the sentence; how to get the
sense OF the subject; how to give the
sense and how 10 tell it.
VII. School statistics, how to secure
and control order, school discipline,
management OF pupils. -,
VIII. Words, sounds OF letters, drill
on the sounds, manner OF teaching,
how to use the dictionary.
NJ. Penmanship. how to teach 1t;
talking with pencil and pen, unity Of
reading, writing. spelling, punctuation,
Capitalization in one exercise.
y. Geography, theory OF teaching 1t;
observations OF geographical forms,
building up continents.
NJ. How to teach the elementary
natural sciences.
NIGHT LECTURE.
"The Elements OF Success, or BoInd
to VIM"
HON. J. II. SMART's WORK.
|. "The Essential Doctrines OF the
School"
II. Educational Hindrance'-Two
lectures.
III. "Some Incidental Value OF the
School
". Modes OF Examination OF Teach
ers."
>UrT. JOHN PEAsLEE s wORK-LkCTuREs'
|. moral aud Literary Training in
the Public Schools"
IL. The Lives and Writings OF Henry
Wadsworth, longfellow and Oliver
Wendell Holmes
INSTITUTE WORK.
primary arithmetic
HON. !. ! BURNS WORK.
|. "The schoolmaster."
II. "The schoolmaster's English
Ill. "rhe philosophy OF illustration.
". "a more ratiOna! course oil
study
NIGHT LECTURE.
The boy that is and the man that
ought to be"
Prof. A. l.. Wade's work:
|. "rhe ORIGINATING system Tor c0nn'
try schools. Its progress aud pros
poets"
If. GLOW the graduating system may
be inaugurated in West Virginia
Ill. The Superintendent qualitica-
tons"
". THE Superintendent duties and
how to perform them"
V. is school supervision nccessi-
ty?"
VI. els the superintendent salary
equal to his usefulness