Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-10

j. S. FORD, COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
County Association next Saturday.
j. G.. Wine returned last week to
pursue his studies in the State Univer-
sity.
The Harrington teachers will take
possession of their new school building
January 18th.
Don't forget that State Superinten-
dent Winans will address the county
association next Saturday.
The high school trustees will meet in
the office of the county superintendent
Monday, January 18th at 2 p. m.
President J. NJ. Reid, of the Enter
prise Normal, is editing an educational
column in the Enterprise Independent.
What will be known as the East Cen
trail Teachers Association has been
formed from the counties of Clay,
Dickinson, Davis, Morris and Riley.
The first meeting will be held at juno
ton City on the last Friday and Satur-
day of March.
School boards can procure Welch's
classification registers at Toms s. Rock
afeller's book store. These registers
should be put into the schools so that
the teachers may leave report of the
work done by each pupil. In this way
the succeeding teacher will be able to
properly classify and organize his school
the first day of the term. 1t is hoped
that teachers will call the attention of
the school boards to this matter. The
expense for the register will be trifing,
and the advantages to be gained by it
are many.
At the coming session of the Legisla-
ture Hon. w. HI. Young will propose
an amendment to the law governing
the time when a county superintendent
of public instruction elect will assume
the duties of his office. According to
this amendment superintendent will
assume the duties of his Office on the
first Monday ill May instead of on the
second Monday in January, as at the
present time. The advantage in this
arrangement will be in its enabling the
outgoing superintendent to complete
or nearly so the work of the school year
prior to the annual district election in
June. 1t will also enable the superin-
tendent to carry out any method of
superintendent of the schools which
he may have inaugurated at the begin
ming of the school year. The county
superintendent term Of Office closing
in the middle of the year as at the
present, operates against the interests
of the schools. The proposed amend
ment possesses much merit and will no
doubt prevail.
We suggest that teachers all over
the State bring the matter of examina-
tions before their local Institutes, and
if necessary petition the Legislature to
change the law relating to examina-
tons, so as to take it out of the hands
of the State board and place it in the
hands of the local board where it
belongs. Also to ask that the unjust
discrimination as against the teachers
profession be done away with that
when the teacher obtains a first grade
certificate he may not again be COM
PEELED to go up for examination, at
least so long as he bemeans himself
as well as those of other professions.
-[HOpe Dispatch.
Friend Crary, would it not be better
for the State Board to prepare course
of reading which when completed
would entitle persons holding first
grade certificates to life certificates?
At recent State Teachers association
a resolution something like the follow
ing was passed:
Resolved, That we favor grading the
course of study for normal institutes
and supplementing the same with such
a course of reading as when completed
shall exempt teachers from further
examination.
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
The institute at WOOdbine was at
tended the following teachers: Misses
Grace Cook, Edith Halleck, Ida Swan
son, Mollie Gore, Kate Cornell; Messrs.
F. D. Carman, Swisher, E. Grosser, w.
II. Wagner, W. L. Early, S. l.. Book,
o. l.. Bates, E. G. Betz, P. T. Nickle,
Ralph Miles, w. E. Austin. Quite a
number whose names were on the pro-
gram failed to appear, and as result
some of the subjects which were to be
discussed were omitted. Prof. |
Swisher's method of teaching numbers
TO primary classes is good, but his class |
at the institute was somewhat incorri- |
yible. The professor demonstrated
one fact very clearly and that is that he |
has a great deal of patience, and pro-
poses to govern by kindness rather than |
by physical force. A great many of |
the teachers, includingMr. Lowrie, be-
ieved that children should be required |
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