The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-26
A TEACHERS MEETING.
Big Gathering of Waikiki Peda.
gogues at Waikiki.

The Wailuku Teachers Circle met
in the Union School on Saturday
afternoon, 18th inst. Mr.. A. St. Chad
Piianaia called the meeting to order
at 80 and Prof. J. l.. Dumas, in his
usual happy manner, gave lesson in
putty modelling. Every teacher pres
ent was furnished with board and
putty and followed the professor in
making plains, slopes, pals, hills,
mountains, mountain ranges, valleys,
mountain ranges showing mountain
peaks, islands and bays with reefs
and peninsulas and channels The
definitions of these natural divisions
are to be made up in the class
and thoroughly learned as the work
goes on.
Miss Zelie K. Rogers gave most
interesting lesson in arithmetic, hav-
ing part of her class present to do
| the work. She showed clearly that
children from seven to ten years of
age may be taught to handle small
numbers, either integrally or frac-
tionally with perfect certainty, using
of course small fractions as one-haIf,
one.third, one-fourth, two-thirds,
| three-fourths, etc.
Miss Hammond, from Maunaolu
Seminary, gave regular kinder
| garten lesson and had every one of
| the teachers work as she directed. It
would be the height of folly to at
tempt in an article such as this to
give any description or explanation
| of Miss Hammond's lesson--to appre-
ciate such work, one must have been
present and taken an active part. 1t is
| difficult to exaggerate the value of such
instruction and those who have never
had the benefit of such lesson have
lost more than they can realize.
Herbart was taken up and handled
softly, though carefully by the several
teachers as Mr.. Piianaia, would put
his aptly arranged questions and call
on the several teachers. Every teacher
showed that Herbart had been can
vassed with the greatest degree of
care. Hon. w. r. Castle, President
of the Board of Education, was with
us during this discussion and he
seemed to enjoy himself also.
The teachers present at the after
noon session were Professors Town
send and Abbott from Lahainaluna
Seminary, Mr.- Charloe w. baldwin
from Haiku, Miss Hammond from
Maunaolu Seminary, Miss Ethel Moss
man from Hamakuapoko, Miss Rose
Ellen Crook and Miss De Carmo from
Paia, Mr.. A. ST. Chad Piianaia and
MIR. Moses Kauhimahu, Mrs. F. nj.
Simpson, Miss Angela Crook, Miss G..
l.. Turner, Miss Blanche Horner, Prof.
J. l.. Dumas, Miss L. M. Cunning
ham, Miss Zelie K Rogers, Miss
Bessie Akana and John A. Moore.
AS the meeting of the Maui Teachers
Convention will likely be held in
Wailuku on Thursday and Friday,
the 10Th and Goth of July, no day for
the next meeting of the Waikiki
Circle has been fixed.
PROGRAMME OF THE EVENING
SESSION.
l. Singing....... ................G lee Club.
2. Recftation-The Clock story.
...........................M Miss Hammond.
3. Singing ....... -. ........ Finger Play.
4. Observation-Disclosures Interpre-
ter..... Miss Mary Chillingworth.
3. kindergarten Song-The Little
Plant.
6. Recitation-The Tribute. ...
INSTRUMENTATION Miss Bessie Akana.
Z. Address-The Growth of the
Kindergarten. ......... Miss Turner.
y" AsCOAtotAOh-1 hO OISCOSSIy..."
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8. Recitation-The Bee-hive.....-
....... ......... Miss Annie Rhodes.
10. Kindergarten Song-Making
Bread.
IL. Brief Talks by the teachers on
Kindergarten: Miss u. Rogers,
Miss Angelina Crook, Mr.. Moses
Kauhimahu, Miss Bessie Akana,
Miss Cunningham Mr.. Townsend,
III a.
Miss Nellie Crook, Mr.. Moore, Mr..
Dumas.
II. Resolution by Mr.. Abbott.
Is. kindergarten Song-The Sparrows.
ii. Recitation-The Little Boys
Walk................ -.Alura Spencer.
10. Reading-Froebels Garden...-
Observation-Disclosures. ....M Miss Turner.
Is. Singing -.................--..G lee Club.
II. Tableau-Rebecca at the Well.
Is. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
10. Tableau The Flower of the
Family.
The following is the resolution re-
ferred to in the above programme.
1t was unanimously adopted.
Whereas, Popular government
must utterly fail without popular in
telligence and character; and
Whereas, Schools are the great
source OF Intelligence ana nODle pur-
pose; and
Whereas, The school receives its
character from the teacher, being pro-
gressive when the teacher is progress
sive, of high purpose when the teach
er is of high purpose, tending toward |
great intelligence when the teacher is
highly educated and well trained, and
toward illiteracy when the teacher is
unframed and ignorant; and
Whereas, All teachers therefore need
%, thorough education; (2), training
in educational methods, and (3), thor
ough grounding in, the, principles of
education; thorough education that
thew NAV not be 'blind leaders of the |
blind" training in methods that each |
teacher may benefit by the expert |
once of other teachers thorough |