Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-06-08
State Teaohers' institute.

The State Teachers Institute for st.
Clair county will be held at Port
Huron, commencing at 10 O'Clock a. m,
Monday, July %, and closing mt 4. p.
M, Wednesday, August /. Commits
sioner X. b. Fairman, Port Huron,
local committee.
There is no doubt as to the value of
a good live institute. Experience
proves that as a rule the most success
full, alert, progressive teachers are
those who avail themselves of the work
given at such meetings.
The persons in charge of the instruc-
ton at these institutes are those who
have had practical experience in school
work, and know how to impart to
others IL portion of what they have
gained in this experience. EtfOrt.has
been put forth to give the county the
best institute ever held.
The work will combine professional
and academic instruction. The insti-
tute will be divided into sections and
the instructors will conduct classes for
the purpose of reviewing some studies,
and also to illustrate certain methods
of instruction. The workers have been
urged to arrange for calisthenic eXer-
cises, singing, marching and the like,
so as To make the work move oil cheer
lily and without fatigue.
The time for study at the institute
will be necessarily limited, and in
order to permit the most profitable of
class exercises the following topics are
suggested, so that those who purpose
attending may make some preparations:
Arithmetic-(D Fractions, (2) per-
centage, O. mensuration, (4) evolution.
Grammar-CD Relative clauses, (2)
inhnitives, (S) participles, (4) objective
compliments.
Geographically Michigan, (2) model
outline of South America. (3) CONNER
cial geography of the United States.
History-U) The Mexican War, (2)
the constitution, (3) Civil War, az po-
litical parties, (5) important current
events.
Physiology-(D The heart, (2) health
lessons-see manual for country schools,
(3) ventilation, (4) digestion.
Civil Government-1) Executive OFF,
GERS of Nation, State, county, city,
village, (2) compare makeup and
duties of Congress and Legislature, (3)
how amendments are made to State
and National constitutions, (4) taxes.
Pedagogy-The fourth and fifth
chapters of Putnam's Primer, or its
equivalent.
Reading and Photography - Long
fellows Evangeline. A spelling match
will be conducted on the names of the
states and territories and fifty techni-
cal words of grammar and physiology.
The preceding topics are given to aid
in proper preparation for the work.
Bring any textbooks. BE thinking
and studying along the lines of the
topics suggested, and even weeks
institute may be made very profitable
with class work and lectures combined.
The institute law allows teachers.
whose schools are in session at the
time appointed for the County Insti-
tute, held under the direction of the
State Superintendent, to close their
schools during the continuance of such
institute without FORGETTING their wages
for as many half days as they are in
attendance at the institute.
There will be no enrolment fee,
and it would seem rs If every wide
awake pedagog, or would-be pedagog,
would arrange to attend every session.
Full particulars in regard TO board /,
ETC., may be obtained upon applica-
ton to the local committee.
HENRY II. PATTENGILL,
Sup't of Public Instruction.