The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-19

to teach without children as it is TO
master chemistry without q laboratory.
That the children who are being
taught by the students may not be
injured, it is necessary for heinstruct.
ors TO plan and carefully observe the
work. They watch over the student
teachers, help them to avoid mistakes
and to correc. others, often taking
class and showing how the subject
should be taught.
Olce each week there is Il oriticigm
lesson given by q senior in the pres
ence Of the whole senior normal class
Af,er the session for the day is owe.
the professor Of pedagogy and the
tSo model school instructors meet with
the members of the class. They have
real teachers's meeting, discussing
both the possibilities of the subject
aud how they have been brought out
in the lesson. All of this done in the
spirit of kindly criticism and makes
real teachers out Of the studeut.teach
ers, which is sooi evinced by 9 new
interest in their own work in the Class
rooms.
The work being don2 in Che model
school this year is of high grade,
and the class which will SO out in
June is one of the best ever sent out
by the school. Your correspondent
took occasion to see some Of the &C.
tusl teaching being done by the s!u
dent-teachers. In the first class were
a happy set of year.olds, who had
been in the model school siuce Septem
Der. The teacher told them to read
to the visitor. Turning at random
through Thomson's second book of
Fairy Tale and Fable, they read any
! where without hesitancy. They are
now ready to take up tie third book.
The little ones then each wrote the
visitor Il note. These little notes were
neatly and carefully written, had q
correct heading and ending, while the
capitalization aud punctuation would
put many Older people to shame. Be-
sides learning to read, spell and write,
they memories poems, have nature
lessons and do simple number work.
Among other interesting things
which we saw WAS relic map OF
South Carolina, showing the counties
IN colors. Tie map vas moulded and
colored by Il second grade boy.
The third grade has cooperative
| store, and the children buy and ssll
grits, cloth and other things by actual
measurement. The children are re
quired to measure accurately end t.
make correct charge. The money
used is round pieces Of paper with its
value written on it.
IL the higher classes one young
lady was teaching United States bis.
ory. Her lesson was about SGerman's
march through Gaorgia and the Caro-.
l;nias. She h,,1 dawn aDd sO!Crcd 4
n,ap on the board, showing the liGe
of marca. She made her subject viz.
i'll by reading AMI telling incidents Of
the time. She then questioned the
class on dates, places taken, why they
were taken, etc, pointing ont all places
on The nap.
In another room two young ladies,
one at each end Of the room, were
teaching geography. Ono WAS teach.
ing physical geogr ply and was max
ing her lesson on the Congo basin OF
Africa most interesting. She used
freely maps and the relisf globe. The
otLer was teaching the political geo
g:aphy Of ;hc western States of tie
ai'cl States. She had drawn map
Of that section or the board and WAS
locating cities on it. The class must
know the location 0! the cities and be
able to spell and pronounce correctly
their rames.-State.