The herald., 1897-11-05
SCHOOL NOTES
Of Interest to Pedagogues, Parents
and Pupils

of the kindergarten Magazine or chi
cago, and prominent kindergarten ad-
vocate. writes that she will visit the
Pacific coast this winter for the purpose
of inspecting our kindergarten work.
The educational classes of the Y. w.
C. A. have about $50 members enrolled.
The gymnasium work attracts the larg-
est classes and the Shakespeare study
classes. under the direction of Mrs.
Anna S. Averill, are also very popular.
A class in journalism is in embryo. and
plans for organizing were discussed at
q meeting held last night especially for
that purpose.
Miss Shotwell of Washington. D. c.,
who has been actively engaged in the
Mothers club movement at the capital,
is at the Hotel Brunswick. The ladies
who had the mothers congress in charge
are energetically working to arouse still
broader interest in the next congress.
to be held in Philadelphia.
The kindergarten club met yesterday
afternoon at the Friday Morning club
rooms. II was decided by vote that
the club renew its membership in the
International kindergarten union.
Prof. O. B. Coffey of the Overland
Monthly spent Monday and Tuesday in
investigating the work of various
classes at the normal school, and he ex-
pressed gratifying enthusiasm for the
system in the training department.
The sixteenth street kindergarten
numbers sixty-two pupils and yet lack of
space and material force the teachers
to despair of doing their best or regular
work.
Professor Edwards of the department
of mathematics at Berkeley is in Los
Angeles.
There is veritable babel of tongues
at the Sonoratown college settlement
kindergarten. The Latin races are pre-
dominantly represented in this class of
twenty-five babies. and comments are
exchanged in Spanish, French and Ital-
ian with irrepressible gusto when the
bright colored work is distributed.
The various departments of the State
Teachers association are preparing for
unusually beneficial sessions in the
December convention, and catechismal
literature is being distributed with a
view to realizing more definite and uni
form standards of work.
The Nogales. Ariz., school trustees in
tend to rigidly enforce the compulsory
law and mean to collect the penalty i'm
posed upon parents or guardians for
nonconformance. The first offense is
subject to a fine of not less than $40 nor
more than 500, besides cost of collection.
DR.. James Hughes, inspector of
schools, Toronto, Canada, has an es-
pecially noteworthy article on School
Problems in the October Theosophy.
DR.. C. c. Van LEV, Miss Rice and Pro-
fessor Pierce attended the San Diego
teachers institute last week and partici-
pated in the program.
The last two meetings for pedagogical
discussion at the normal school We're
devoted to moral development proceed
ing from the valuation Of moral develop
ment in education ia the application of
methods for the furthering of moral
| strength.
The practice teachers or pupil teach
ers who are completing their three years
course of training at the normal
school are now testing their receptivity
of the academical and professional theo-
ries included in that term by actual
class work with children. About thirty
five observers, members of the faculty
and others, note the virtues and weak
points of the efforts of novices and bring
them up for discussion at q meeting al
which all the practice teachers and sew.
eral instructors are present. In thi:
way those preparing to become teachers
learn to give fair valuation and judg
lnent in methods and devices.
The entering class of 1897 numbered
156 students, of whom 143 were youns
women and thirteen young men. Th'
average age of the class was 1S year
and months, which is two years olde
than the average of several years ago
This is to be regarded as a Favorable
condition for the Improvement of tn
professional standard. Twenty-seven o
these students had previously ATTENDED
advanced schools and twenty-five hat
already taught. one hundred and sever
of the entire class live in Los Angelo
! county,