Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-11-08
COUNTY TEACHERS ARE
HOLDING INSTITUTE
An Interesting g PROGRAM Prepare cd
for This Important Meeting
OF School Instructors.

The Josephine county Teachers In
stitute is now in session. The frs
meeting was held Wednesday ant
the enrolment was go, showing good
Increase over the corresponding session
of the last institute.
After a song and some opening re.
marks, the regular work of the in.
tsitute was taken up. Mrs Kidder,
Of the Oregon Library Commission
was the first speaker, giving an in
structive, practical talk on the care
and classification of books, explain.
ing the work Of the Library Com
mission, In building up school IL
braries. DR.. Henry D. Sheldon, of
the University of Oregon next address.
ed the institute, taking up the highly
interesting topic Of teachers salaries.
His plea was for better salaries, as
based on better qualifications of the
teachers aud in this connection he ex.
planned the new work that the Uni
versity of Oregon is taking up, in es-
tsblishing a correspondence school.
This instructive correspondence ia
then free to all teachers in Oregon and
is under the regular professors of the
University and credit is given by the
University to those who pass success:
fully the examination given their cor
respondents.
At the afternoon session, DR.. Shell
don gave q very practical talk on
school hygiene, touching especially
upon the subjects Of ventilation, heat
ing and lighting of school rooms. Mrs.
Kidder talked on circulating libraries
loaned by the Commission to schools,
on application, explaining the plan OF
loan, contents of these Libraries, etc.
The use of books was Interestingly
discussed by Mrs. Kidder. who made
a plea foi reading population in
Oregon, which result must be brought
about by training the pupils to read
books. Comment on individual books
of the Commissioners list was Of much
interest and good, practical value to
the teachers.
Thursday morning Miss Knox, of
Portland addressed the Institute on
Art Education. going into details
Of the first training and culture in this
line, showing the development the
work. step by step. The course in
structoin. In the interest of which she
spoke, is gotten up by the Prang Edu-
cational Pub. Co whose system Of
drawing and drawing books was re-
Gently adopted by the State Text Book
Commission. DR.. Love next addressed
the Institute on tuberculosis. " His
address was full Of much good advice,
and it was Of practical value, showing
how this dread disease may be con-
trolled and successfully kept from
spreading. The Institute was then di'
vided into Primary and Advanced
Sections. Mrs. Sloan. of Portland,
author of the Sloan series Of readers
addressed the Primary section ON
Method in Reading" giving high
ly interesting and instructive talk to
the Primary teachers. DR.. Sheldon
addressed the Advanced section on
" Geography Teaching" and made a
plea for better teaching in geography,
to get away from the old style hum
drum method to one that brings out
those things which are Of special in
terest to the boys and girls.
DR.. Sheldon opened the afternoon ses'
sion by talking to the Advanced sec
tion on the subject Of history. hel
gave many valuable suggestions on
history teaching. speaking of the use
and misuse of the note book Tsystem.
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