Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-06-04
TEACHERS INSTITUTE
Audubon County Teachers Institute
10 Be Held June IS to23
0 the Teachers of Audubon Co:

IL l'ef 1cbCueTS Oh AUDUBON 90.
The tnirty-ifth annual session of
the Audubon County Normal Insti-
tute will convene Monday June Is,
and continue in session seven DAYS,
Monday will be enrolment day. The
committee on enrolment will be at the
High School building Monday June
Is from 8 a. M. to IL a. M. and from
p. NJ. to 6 p. m.
New Certificate Law, Section %.
Governing Institute Attendance:
The County Superintendent shall,
annually, on the first Monday in Sep
TENDER, file with the president of the
board of educational examiners, list
of all pers ms, who for the preceding
year have held certificates and have
attended the Normal institute, with
the number of days attendance of each
A similar report of summer school
attendance shall be seeured by the
president of the board. In any SUISSE
quent examination or removal, the
board may give credit for summer
school or institute attendance as it NAV
determine, any rule adopted to apply
equally to all similar cases.
INSTRUCTORS
Supt. Minis Of Nevada will have
charge of the work in Civics, History
and Geography: Supt Mantz, Physics.
Algebra and Arithmetic; Mrs. Statzell
of Extra will give instruction i'm Eng
fish, Miss Brown will have the music:
Miss Luse from the training depart.
ment of the State Normal will have
the work in Psychology, Didactics and
Reading.
We have been successful in securing
Miss Fanchon Moffet of Chicago, an
expert drawing teacher, for this Insti-
tute. Here is an opportunity that
neither rural nor graded teachers can
afford to miss unless they are quite
proficient in this line. The great edu-
Gator, Horace Mann, said "With no
other guide than mere inspection of
the copy books of pupils, can tell
whether drawing is taught in the
schools or not; so uniformly superior is
the handwriting in the schools where
drawing is taught in connection with
it," We know. that in a considerable
number of the schools of the county
great interest has been taken in the
penmanship and we hope this fall to
see more schools swing into line.
Tent Books
The work in Psychology will be
based on Belts Mind and it's Education
one of last years Reading Circle books;
Whites elements on Pedagogy" and
Sherman q Reads Essentials in
Reading" will be used respectively for
work in Didactics and Reading. The
last mentioned books have been adapt
ed for the coming years Reading Circle
work. In our judgment this years
examination questions in these particu.
lar studies will come largely from the
Reading Circle books. The text in
music will be the same az used i'm last
institute. 1t is necessary for progress.
sive teachers to invest certain sum in
books each year,-no a large sum- two
or three books of educational value and
read them, study them. Books are the
teachers tools and they should be
modern tools representing the best edu-
cational thought of the day.
TEACHERS PREPARATION
There was time when thorough
preparation was placed on an equal
with non preparation. That is of the
past Everything indicates better
things in store for our teachers. The
people are coming to see the necessity
OF well prepared teachers; and, accord.
ing to the laws of supply and demand
they are coming to recognize they
must pay the price for that kind of a
teacher. Very Sincerely Yours,
ELLA M. STEARNs, Co. Supt.