Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-27
EDUCATIONAL.
G. ID. BELDEN. EDITOR.
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.

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LIE Roy, Wednesday, March 20, 8 a. M.
Brownsville, Friday, March %, 8. am.
Grand Meadow, Tuesday, March 26. 8
a. m.
Austin, Wednesday, April 10, 9a.|m.
Applicants for second grade will be ex-
amined in Civil Government. Second
grade certificates will be renewed fer
those who attend the State Institute.
The State Teachers Institute will COM
mence at Austin, Monday, April 1, 1:S0
p. M, and continue until Friday even
ing. All teachers in the county must at
tend this Institute. CD. BELDEN,
Go, Supt. of schools.
Bring in your questions for the query
box at the Institute.
Several students from LIE Roy expect
to attend Carleton College next year.
Mrs. Cornelia l.. Soule commenced
teaching in the Ramsey school last week.
It is expected that the Austin hotels
will give the usual special rates for those
atteddlng the lnltltute.
Miss Minnie Quincy, of this CITY, will
commence her second term Of school in
District IS, Nevada, April Is.
DR.. L. B sperry will lecture before the
State Teachers Institute next Tuesday
evening.
Miss Anna Vail has returned from Da.
kota and will teach the summer term IN
the Dlnsmore district. south west of
Austin.
Miss Amelia Dodge, of Red Rock, has
been attending the Normal School at
Madison, Dakota, since she finished her
term of school in December.
Mr., Horace r. Wells, of Lansing, ex
poets to go to Dakota and Montana this
this week with view to settling in some
CT the booming communities of the great
north west.
The State Teachers Institute will com.
mence at Austin next Monday afternoon.
All teachers IN the county must attend
before receiving certificates, unless es-
pecially excused.
At the teachers examination in LIE Roy
about 20 teachers were IN attedance. At
Brownsville the same number were pres
ent. The examinations at Grand Mead
ow are going on this week, Tuesday and
Wednesday.
There is no law that compels the coun-
ty superintendent to examine those who
never expect to teach under his direction.
He is to examine simply with reference to
the supply of teachers for his schools.
Beyond this it Is serious question how
far the people at large expect HIM to take
time that should be devoted directly to
the schools and examine those under age
and those who do not expect to teach,
This spring is has been simply impossible
to examine all who have applied for ex-
animation.
Uses of the Blackboard. The wall of
school room are chiefly valuable as
space for blackboards. The space behind
the teachers desk is for him. How may
he use his blackboard to interest, to IN
struct and to govern?
He ought first to have some knowledge
of and skill in drawing. A little prac
tice with chalk, white or colored, will en-
able him to make his work legible, sym
metrical and attractive. BY the use Of
large four sided crayons, one may write
and print rapidly in large shaded letters
The teachers board teaches constantly
though silently, and should therefore be
neat an orderly. Its lines and space
should be regular and the writing bolt
and free.
In primary instruction, the blackboard
is library, apparatus, everything. Othe
things come into use, but the knowledge
gathered by or from them focused on the
blackboard, which becomes the working
point of the whole teaching machinery
Reading. writing, spelling, lessons OF
objects. morals and manners, geography
ETC., are all taught from the board.
In advanced classes, the teachers boart
has higher uses, chiefly supplementary tt
oral teaching and the textbook. Compile,
and confusing diagrams and demonstra
tons in books become clear as the teach
er explains them and the pupil sees then
grow on the board. Words mispronounc
ed or misspelled are placed on the boar'
correctly spelled and accented. Sum
maries, analyses, topical arrangements
examination questions, etc, are writer
on the teachers board for drill or TO
study. Indeed the more one uses hi
board the more necessary and helpful h
finds it. -...
It may be used to aid in government
The program of daily exercises will OF
oupy space there. The writing of a rul
or notice saves talk, fastens attentio
and promotes silence. The board ma
be divided by vertical lines, into thre
spaces. One of these will suffice for th
program, another for notices, queries
J ETC., and the third for the order roll
Pupils will then be divided into sections