The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-18
NORMAL INSTITUTE NOTES
Teachers Arrested with an Afithmetical
Problem.

Teachers Arrested With an Arithmetical
Problem.
Messrs. George Machtrib and ]. W.
Hannun favored the institute with pi-
ano duet, which was well executed.
About noon Prof. Adams and Mr.. Nacht-
rib delighted US with vocal Duet.
Mrs. Sites. Mr.. F. A. Hibarger and
Mr.. Chapman of Augusta were present
yesterday as visitors.
From now on Miss Shuts will do all
the teaching in the primary department.
Her little pupils are advancing rapidly
more 80 than she expected.
The practical primary lesson in chapel
yesterday was a reading lesson in which
the pupil was required TO look at a line
or sentence, then look from the book and
tell exactly what the book said.
There are two main reasons for this
method: First, to tell it the child must
see accurately; second, the telling is
given in the natural expression, thus
making reading and conversing identical
to the nearer. Alas for the unfortunate
children whose reading is so unnatural.
Miss Shuts uses such sensible methods
and so true to nature, she. indeed. is a
translator of child nature.
The arithmetic class had this problem:
Five notes were given, no two being CIV
eE on the same day; each was due in two
months, ard all fell due on the same day.
Explain.
Associate Examiner Pence said that
about two-thirds failed in problems in
v0lving commission for selling and buy
ing. and the common banking problem:
Fer how much must my note be drawn
10 borrow 5000 at a bank for three
months, interest at 10 per cent?
Teachers were advised to solve and
teach such problems by using the COM
mon fraction method.
The test question answered by the
reading classes indicates that 10 per cent
will receive first grades and so per cent
second grades. 90 per cent third grades,
leaving 20 per cent for failures. The re-
manning two weeks will be spent on
method work.
The germ doctrine of disease was a
topic in the physiology. classes.
The physics class have a test answer
ing the questions relative to intensity
and power of electric currents through
wires Of different sizes. lengths and ma
te-ials. Volts, amperes, coulombs. ohms
and ergs and dymes received attention
FRACTIONAL, magnetic and galvanic cleo
trical phenomena were discussed.
Methods of Conducting Recitations
and General Glass Work" was a subject
debated at school management period.
In opposition to the teachers using
text book in recitation, Prof. Scott gave
a splendid illustration of a teacher hear
ing a geography lesson with one finger
on the question. another hunting up the
answer on rhe map and then drolling out
Does the Missouri river empty into the
Mississippi north or south Of the mouth
Of the Ohio?" And then when the ques-
zion had been properly answered, TO ask
the pupil to please state the answer
again. quite conclusive that the teacher
should thoroughly know the lesson ne
has required of the pupil. and that he
can hear the lesson without the use Of
text book.
Il has been stated again and again
that the ablest teachers never go before
class without firss looking over tha,
lesson, even though they have taught the
lesson many times
Cannot any one recall both classes OF
teachers he may have had and judge for
himself which method was best?
In answer TO Prof. SCOTS question:
Should teacher ask a class 70 do
what he cannot do himself?' the insti-
tute voted unanimously in the negative,
excepting one man who was sick and an
other who did no, understand