The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-11-10
School Notes.

Prof. J. W. Heckert, training
teacher, and Miss Jessie Bowden,
critic teacher Of the State Normal
School at Natchitoches, have been
secured as instructors for the annual
parish teachers institute which is to
convene at the high school building
in DonaldsonvIlle Monday after next,
the 10Th inst, at 10 o'clock a. II. The
institute will remain in session five
days, and all teachers in the employ
of the parish school board are re-
quired by law to attend. Prof. Heck
ert and Miss Bowden are able edu-
Gators and institute workers, and will
bring rich experience and valuable
information to the local gathering.
1t will indeed be unfortunate should
any of our teachers be prevented
from attending.
State Superintendent ]. B. Aswell
and his deputy, Prof. J. E. Keeny,
as we'll as other educators of note,
will be present during the week and
are booked to deliver addresses.
Some OF the topics TO be discussed
during the institute are: The business
OF the public schools. home and the
school, functions of school officials,
duties of teachers inside and outside
of school, lesson plans, teaching of
various subjects, discipline, school
libr aries, school gardens. manual
training, consolidation and transpor-
tation, local problems, etc.
Thursday, Nov. q, will be Patrons
and Directors Day." and it is to be
hoped that there will be good at
tendance of directors, patrons and
friends of education generally. A
public meeting will be held Thursday
night, at which addresses will be de-
livered by prominent educators. In
order TO combine pleasure with bust
ness, the management is planning an
excursion to one of the nearby sugar
factories for some afternoon during
the week.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all the sessions of the institute.
Under the provisions nf-the ..es4He=
state aW relative to the establishment
of school libraries, the third and fifth
grades in the local high school, taught
respectively by Misses Ora Dalferes
and EJWina Suddath, and the Geismar
school, taught by Miss Dixie r. Hite,
have raised the required amounts-Sl0
each-and deposited the same with the
treasurer of the school board, who has
notified the parish superintendent to
this effect. The latter will in turn
bring the matter to the attention OF
the school board at the next meeting OF
that body, scheduled for Wednesday,
Nov. IA, and, in accordance with law,
the board will appropriate amounts
equalling those raised by the school
children, and will also provide book.
case for each library. Il will be but
short time before every public school
in Ascension parish will have a nice,
neat library of books suitable to the
needs OF each grade or school.
The parish superintendent recently
mailed to all the teachers copies of
Teachers Manual" prepared by him
and authorized by the board. The
manual contains the names OF the mem
bers of the state board of education,
state institute board and parish school
board: the second annual report OF the
parish superintendent; the method of
grading schools throughout the par
ish; the course of study adopted by the
state board; abstracts from the laws
relative to arbor day, bird day, school
libraries and teachers Institutes;
list OF rules governing pupils, leach,
ers, principals and local trustees, and
lists of text books and books for sup
Elementary reading adopted by the
state board of education for use in the
public schools from 1904 to 1908. Let
ters of congratulation on the utility of
the manual have been received by
Superintendent Showalter from State
Superintendent Aswell and State In
stitute Conductor Keeny.