The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-06-22
Educational Column.
TO TEACHERS.

tally essential to good school worl
as well as to health and life, and dc
you, at all times, carefully attend
to the ventilation of your school
rooms a
Do you know that the averag.
number of scholars in a room of thu
average size of country school rooms
will breathe all the air the room con
tains in twenty minutes? -'
Do you believe that the physica
and mental health of scholars j.
more valuable than a little fuel, ani
do you, as rule, always have two
or more windows slightly lowered
At the top, taking care that there
is no direct draught upon any pr
pill!
Do you believe that a properly ar
ranged slime programme, strie.l,
adhered to, will enable a teacher
especially when crowded for time
to accomplish AZ much in six hours
as he could in seven without it?
Are you sure that 30 far as is con
sistent with the pr'nciple of th'
greatest good to the greatest mum
Der, each scholar of your school il
studying what is for his creates
! benefit?
Do you carefully apportion the
time among the different branchc'
according to the Importance Of each
and the special need of your school
or do you devote four hours day tc
reading, and ten minutes, or less, t
writing?
| Is your school room swept at nigh
after school,. the. air thoroughly
changed by opening, for a few min
utes, all the doors and windows:
And are the seats, anddcsks, we'll
busted in tho morning?
In organizing and classifying YOU
school, do you, by careful exan,ra
ton, inform yourself of the capacit,
and present attachments of each pu
pill, and then exercise your right a
teacher to advise, and within Ger
tain limits, to insist, as to wha
branches he will study, and wha
class in each he shall enter:
Have you such programme, no
only for your own use, but that thu
county superintendent, when he Wis
its your school, my by means of i
obtain at a glance, information as t,
how your school is organized, and
the scope and character of the worl
being done in it, which it would re
quirc an hour of your time, Of hi,
time, and of the time of the school
to obtain otherwise?
Have you 80 classi6e your school
that you have not more than twent,
daily recitations?
DO you study, the day before, eve
ry lesson on which you are to con
duct recitation the following day:
DO all the pupils in your school
attend to writing at the same time
every day, and do YOU make use Of
the blackboard in giving instruction.
therein?
Do you in every oral spelling ex.
crcise, require each syllable of Il
word to be pronounced separately,
and thorough attention to be give,
to the proper division of words into
syllables, and to the use of capital
letters.
DO you give oral lessons in nun,
bers to the Youngest pupils of your
school: and teach them to write as
we'll as to read?
DO you try to prevent the bad
habit of hardness by keeping your
school time with the sun. and ;nduc.
ing the parents in your district to do
the same?
Can you persuade your school
GARD to provide a clock for thor
school, and make them believe tina,
= thermometer in your school room
would save its cost in fuel every
week of winter term, besides pro-
noting the health and comfort O,
the school? :
" DO you keep your school registc,
neatly and correctly, using pen and
ink instead of pencils?
DO you give close and faithful At
tention to the care and preservation
of all school property?
Will you have as many or moro
questions to ask the county snperin-
tenaent when he visits your school?
C. w. LKvESs,
County Superintendent schools.