The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-09-25

Teachers Teaching the Teachers How
to Teach.

The Charlotte Training school for Teach
ers, III connection with the Charlotte Grad
ed Schools, opened Wednesday. sept Is.
The candidates for admission presented
themselves at the Graded School Chapel.
at o'clock, on the afternoon of that day,
and the classes were organized and regu-
lar work commenced.
The object of this school is the systematic
and thorough training of teachers in grad
ed school work The problem before the
managers of all southern graded schools
now Is, how TO secure first-class teachers.
One of the largest Teachers Agencies in
the country states that the demand for
teachers, trained in Normal Schools, is
greater than the supply and il is constantly
increasing
Experiments with unframed teachers
have, everywhere, forced the admission Of
the fact thar very few. except those edu
Gated for this special work are filling their
positions satisfactorily. In no trade or
profession have there been many and
such diSastrously successful attempts To
impose unskilled labor on the people as in
teaching.
No lady will trust the making of costly
wardrobe to a young girl who has not
learned to sew, just because she sets her
self up as dress maker. But very many
ladies trust their priceless children to in
experienced girls, just out of school, who
have not made one hours preparation for
teaching. Such persons, with no knowl-
edge of human nature, ignorant of meth
DDS of imparting what they may know
themselves, waste the powers and time of
the children, just as much as the bungling
artisan wastes the material with winch
she works.
The Normal School undertakes to sup
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talents, and develop the natural ability of
those attempting to teach. In every town
the employment of local teachers is urged
and there are numbers OF bright, fairly
educated young women, anxious to teach,
and willing to make special preparation if
they only had the means. For such per
sons there should be one or two perma
nent Normal Schools in each State.
In North Carolina, Charlotte is most
favorably located for such a school A
railroad centre, healthy climate, moderate
living, city advantages, ETC., are all in
ducementS to those wishing to take a
course Of instruction under pleasant cir
cumstances. In view of these many ad-
vantages and one of the great need of
such school, the Board of Commission
ers determined to establish one.
Mr. T. j. MITCHELL Superintendent of
the Graded Schools, will have a general
supervision of this department, and give
some of the classes his personal attention.
Mrs. E. d. Kellogg, of Boston, a teacher
of many years experience and lady of high
culture and superior attainments, will
have direct charge, using the primary de-
partment for model room, and the whole
Graded School for observation and prac-
tice.
The classes will not be confined to the
young and experienced alone, but some of
them will be arranged for old teachers
seeking higher and better quail fications.
The means Of training will consist of
study, recitations, reading, lectures, OBJ
servation, practice, criticism, etc.
The pupil teachers Will be expected to
teach in the different class rooms, under
the direction and subject to the criticism
Of the critic teachers.
The benefit to be received by those TAX
ing this course are beyond estimate. Aside
from increased efficiency, they will be put
i'll the direct way of obtaining positions.
New positions and vacancies in the city
schools will be supplied from this depart
ment, and well-qualified members will be
recommended to the school authorities
abroad, who are constantly inquiring for
teachers able to teach according to the
modern methods of instruction.