The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-07-17
Teachers Institute.

The State Teachers Institute for Shia-
wassee county will be held at Corunna,
commencing at 10 o'clock, a. M, Monday,
August 10, and closing at p. M, Wednes-
day, August 10. Commr. E. ID. Dimond, of
Corunna, local committee.
A good institute is of inestmable value to
the teacher and to the person preparing to
enter the profession. 1t gives inspiration
| and suggestion to the progressive teacher
and leads the novice to prepare more thor
oughly and hold higher ideals of the
teachers work. A good institute is a
genial, lively, methodical, systematic or
derby, enthusiastic school. Instructors have
been selected who have had much practical
experience in the school room and know
how to give others a portion of what they
have thus learned. 1t is confidently
expected that this will be the best institute
ever held in the county.
The work will combine professional and
academic instruction. The institute will be
divided into sections; and the instructors
will conduct classes for the purpose Of re-
viewing some studies, and also to illustrate
certain methods of instruction. The work.
ers have been urged to arrange for calls
thentic exercises, singing, marching, and
the like, so as to make the work move Off
cheerily 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 propose attending may make some
preparations:
Arithmetic. Mental arithmetic drill.
2-Applications in mensuration.
Grammar. 1-In6nitives and particples
Common errors in speech. 3-Analysis
of sentences selected from Fortune of the
Republic"
Geography. Michigan. q Model
lessons on Venezuela, Cuba, Armenia, or
the Transvaal.
History. 1-1s15-1S6l. Finance. g
Important current events.
Physiology. The digestion. Pre-
vention of communicable diseases-see health
Office circulars. 3-Resplration-yc
OF schools. 4-The ear.
Civil Government. Executive officers
of nation, state, county, city, village. q
Compare Congress and Michigan legislation.
Pedagogy. 1.-The eighth and ninth
chapters of Putnam's Primer or its equva-
lent. Child study manual.
Algebra. Equations. 2-Factoring.
2-Problems.
Geometry. Simple problems aud demon
STATIONS.
Botany. Elementary instruction.
Reading and Orth6graphy. Emerson's
"Fortune of the Republic" A spelling
match will be conducted on The Michigan
Test and fifty technical words of physiology
and arithmetic.
The proceeding topics are given to aid in
q 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 com.
bned.
The institute law allows teachers, whose
schools are in session at the time appointed
for the county institute held under the
direction of the State Superintendent, tc
close their schools during the continuance
of such institute, without FORGETTING theil
wages, for as many half days as they are in
attendance at the institute.
There will be no enrolment fee, and
every teacher or would-be teacher, should
arrange to attend every session. Try to be
present at the first session.
Full particulars in regard to board, etc.,
may be obtained upon application to the
local committee.
HENRY X. PATTENGILL,
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Department of Public Instruction, Lansing,
! Mich, 1896.