Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-21
EDUCATIONAL,
G. D. BELDEN, EDITOR.
Questions for Tsaohsrs.
BY CO. SUPP. E.L. uonK.

Questions for Teachers.
BY co. SuPT. F. L. COOK.
ii. Do you believe that pure air is
vitality essential to good school work, as
we'll as to health and life, and do you at
all times carefully attend to the ventila-
ton of your schoolroom?
2. Is your schoolroom swept at night
after school, the air thoroughly changed
by opening for q few minutes the doors
and windows, and are the seats, desks,
ETC., well busted in the morning?
3. Do you induce your pupils to take
pride in keeping the schoolroom, their
desks, the blackboards, and in short,
everything about the premises, neat and
in order? Can you not do something in
the way of decorating your schoolroom?
4. Do you give close and faithful at
tention 10 the care and preservation of all
school property
5: Do you keep your register neatly
and correctly, using pen and ink instead
of psncil2
6. Are you doing everything in your
power to secure regular and punctual at
tendance7 ~ y
+ Take pains to keep your time uniform.
1t is well to have it about ten. minutes
slow. Speak often of the certificates of
! honor. Handsome new ones will be pro-
vided each term. They cost the county
nothing. -l
Z. Do you study the day before, every,
lesson on which you are to conduct reci-
tation thesfollowing day?
8. Have you 2 written programme,
not only for your own use, but to show
the county superintendent when he visits
your school? ....e-9-... S.s.s ..-...
You should give careful attention to
the study programme. Your success de-
Ponds very largely upon yeur skill in
planning and assigning the right kind and
amount of work to keep the pupils. es-
pecially the younger ones, busy and in
terested during their study hours. Not
one teacher in five is giving this import
ant matter sufficient attention.
8. Can you not interest your pupils,
old and young, in the course of study and
the examination of students by the county
superintendent?
Depend upon it, the more you learn of
! these matters, the more favorably you
will regard them. They are sure to win.
| They may be made the means of increas-
| ing the efficiency of our poorer schools
at least so per cent. in three years.
10. Do you teach writing and numbers
to your youngest pupils?
1t takes great deal of thought and
skill to keep the primary classes profit
ably occupied, but neglect of them will
be looked upon as 4 most serious mistake.
II. Do all the pupils in your school
attend to writing ut the same time
every day, and do you make use of the
blackboard in giving instructions therein
~. Do you think there is any excuse
drawing tones in reading?
| We rnllSt too ri, roo 1ino l,o<for IN C,,r
small schools grand results ought to be
attained in this subject. Read Parker and
other writers on teaching reading.
10. Will you not take interest in cur
rent history, and induce your oldest pu-
pills to do the same?
IA. Are you having great deal of
written work done by all of your pupils,
from the youngest to the oldest, and
managing it with such care that they are
making rapid progress in writing. spell
ing, use of capitals, punctuation, and the
ability to put their thoughts upon paper
in good English? k 49,
Is. Do you have monthly written ex-
aminations, and keep the papers on file
as part of the property of the district
to be handed from teacher to teacher? 4
16. Do you combine mental with writ
ten arithmetic?
The former IS too much neglected
You will find Olney's First Lessons in
Arithmetic" and John Cooks Methods
in Written Arithmetic" helpful books.
II. Do you have map drawing, and
teach both geography and history topical
ly in the main? ''.' -
18.. Do you secure good order in YOU
school?
If not. your teaching is failure. Read
''The discipline of the school," The
secret of good order lies in keeping the
school busy and interested. >
10. Do you take an educational jour
nal. and read professional books?
Every progressive teacher does this
If you have any disposition to improve,
a reasonable amount of such reading will
aid you. My library is at your service.
will even send you books if you cannot
call for them. "
20. Will you not try to induce the
trustees to provide whatever is necessary
(as blackboards, unabridged dictionary
globe, and maps to enable you to dc
efficient work?
We ought to have nine months school
in many of our districts. Let us try ia
secure it when practicable.
q. Do you net consider the practice
Of continually prompting pupils during
recitation, and of assisting them in doing
what they, with proper effort, could de
for themselves, q NEST pernicious one?