Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-03-04
LARGE ATTENDANCE
AT INSTITUTE
Baptist Church Crowded Friday
Eve.-Teachers Entertained

The teachers institute Friday and
Saturday of last week was the largest
ever held in the county There were
about one hundred and twenty persons
in the high school room Friday after
noon
City Supt. C. j. Mccormick opened
the institute with an address on the
Problems of the Teacher He won the
rapt attention of all the lady teachers
at once by saying there were three
problems: To get certificate! To get
a school! And to get married. He gave
some good points on advancing pro-
fessionally. Pages Theory and Prac-
tice, in new edition, edited by S. Y.
Gillian, Milwaukee, is the professional
book being read by the county teachers
this year, and several of the teachers
bought copy of this book during the
institute showing their interest in their
personal advancement.
Institute Conductor F. M Jack, of
the River Falls Normal school, then
presented a geography lesson. He
believes that a text book should be
used, and he gave three reasons: to
provide the pupils work, to aid the
teacher and to give information. He
took his lesson from a particular text
book for a certain reason, but as there
were no rival book agents present, no
fight was on about the book. Mr.. Jack
claimed that poor text book is better
than none. Of course he assumed that
necessary work had been done to get
pupils ready for text book His, spec
ial purpose was to show how to assign
lesson, how to teach and how to test.
After this lesson the members of
the institute arose and, while the WIN
dows were open, they were put through
some deep breathing exercises by
County Supt. w. N Mackin. Then
came the songs of the First grade chill
dren directed by Miss Lucy Rosenquist,
which took the institute by storm.
The conductor taught an arithme-
tic class to illustrate that in all
teaching of a new part of the subject
matter the following plan should be
followed The thing to be taught, e. G.
Fractions -1st, Develop the Idea; I'd,
name it; Sd, Define it. The second day
he showed how to graphically repre-
sent problem by a drawing to make a
plain solution.
The teachers were directed by Supt.
Mackin to teach the pupils of the
county to understand land descriptions,
and few of the necessary facts were
named and some practice was given in
describing lands.
A visit to the First ward school was
feature of the afternoon work. Prin.
Batson and her assistants had been do
ING some work which was on exhibit,
for the state fair, and the teachers
were we'll repaid for the trip to that
school,
There was a full house at the Bap-
tist church Friday evening, to hear
the lecture on Progressive Edu-
cation Mr.. Jack made his points
plain, the leading thought being train
ing for service. He said there must
be more of teaching people how to
work. The children from the First
ward school furnished the music, which
was very pleasing.
Saturday morning Supt. Mackin made
a plea for the health of the children
who attend school. He said the teacher
should stop and think once every hour
about the air of the schoolroom and the
physical conditions suitable for the
children. Ventilating plants are in
nearly every school and need only to be
run right to make the conditions good.
They will not run themselves.
Prof. Jack continued the work be-
gun Friday and closed with a good
sneech on how to teach morals. He
taught several good songs by rote,
which is the best way to teach school
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