The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-07-14
TIE TEACHERS CONVENTION.
Crowded Esuoms and Miserable AZ.
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Crowded Esmoms aMd Miserable AZ.
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The general convention ofleachers
in the English Schools Of the King
dom Assembled at the Fort Street
School building at 8 O'Clock Monday
morning, the Inspector-General pre-
siding. Tile roll being called, 1870
teachers were reported present
The two rooms of the high school
division of the building were impro-
vised for the occasion. AS the
rooms are seated for 50pupiIs, some
IDEA may he had of the jam that
took place when some 200 persons
tried to occupy them. Fixed seats,
loose seats, benches, aisles and
doorways were very soon packed.
Ii became painfully evident before
the first lesson on the programme
was through that something must
be done to relieve The CONGESTION.
Accordingly the Inspector General
announced that the convention
would be divided, and the lessons
repeated by the instructors. Mr..
F. w. Hardy of Makawao was elect
ed Vice-President; MIR. II. j. Gal
lagher, Secretary, aud Mrs. r. NJ.
Overend, assistant Secretary.
The Inspector-General delivered
an opening address outlining the
work laid out for the week and com
menting upon the relative lmpor-
lance of different branches of study.
Printed programmes of the pro-
posed exercises were distributed.
The first lesson called was an ex-
hibit of primary reading conducted
by Miss Coursen of the Fort Street
School with twelve of her pupils ex-
employing the results Of first
years course of lessons in reading.
Mr.. j A. Moore next took the
1 rostrum with High Arithmetic"
the "high" part of which reached
the altitude of dividing twelve Ivy
six. The lessons were supposed to
elucidale the process Of teaching the
first four rules to pupils of the
fourth year in the authorized course
Of study. The processes in the
teaching of the first four rules were
illustrated ON the blackboard. The
explanations" consisted largely OF
complications difficult to understand
in the case of English born children,
but 10 the average Hawaiian "keiki'
Of the fourth year must he about as
accessible as tile summit of the
tower of Babel. A teacher seated
on The edge Of The wall in the back
low put in some interlogations Oh
the adaptation OF technical instrut
ton ON arithmetic 10 the capacity ot
Hawaiian children in purely Hawai-
ian communities. After short
dialogue of question and answers
the enquirer was iloored with TIT
conclusion of the whole matter, OF
this wise: "You can teach this Il
IIawaiians il not. I'll come ant
teach il for you-lf you pay me
, say $500 month"
: Mr.. L. ii. Gibson followed will
: the lesson about The goose ami Tn
golden eggs" as in the seron'
reader. a series OF class question
y applicable to the picture as we a
to the text was presented togctle
with numher Of supplemental
exercises on the blackboard. III
class ques ions were appropriat
: and exhaustive.
The Inspector General read
o sample of work by thirdyear DO
n OH the same lesson.
II The last half hour OF the fore
y noon vas taken up by Rev. j. L
Alexander in practical exemplit
cation OF the tuuic-sol-fa system {
music, lesson in which the aud
% ence took q very appreclallye iute
est.