The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1910-12-03
Teachers
Association
The Maui Teachers Hold a Very In.
tefesting and Instructive Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Maui
Teachers Association was held i'm
the assembly hall of the Wailuku
school on Friday, Nov. 25. There
were some forty teachers present,
besides Commissioner Aiken and q
number of visitors not teachers.
Pupils from Grades ii, III and w
were also in attendance, thus afford
ing means of demonstrating actual
classroom work.
The meeting was called to order
at 10 O'Clock by President G.. E.
Copeland, and the programme was
begun by singing the national an
them. After roll-call Mr.. Copeland
delivered an address on the Eff
cheney of the Schools. {" He said
that the schools were charged with
failure to impart both literary train
ing and moral or ethical culture.
He thought that the first charge
was well founded; and that in this
Territory three potent causes of edu-
cational inefficiency were: 1st, the
failure of the Education Depart
ment to prescribe the use of text
books in the schools, and to provide
facilities for obtaining these books;
End, the faulty system of inspection
hitherto practiced, by which the
teachers methods and not the
pupils attainments were inquired
into; and 3rd, the ill-balanced and
unscientific curriculum, which
crowds a mass of wholly unsuitable
information into the lower grades,
thus preventing the teacher from
giving the necessary training in the
mechanics of education. The speak
er declared it to be impossible to
give any adequate drill, or to estab-
lish any proficiency in the three
RS" while teaching also, in the
elementary grades, such subjects as
nature-study; phys cal, political and
commercial geography; theoretical
grammar, physiology; history;
meteorology, etc. AS to the second
charge, that the schools fail to Sc
cure moral and ethical culture.
Mr.. Copeland held that the case
was not proven. He thought that
with proper facilities, proper super
vision and proper curriculum the
schools would do all that could
reasonably be expected of them.
By means of a class, Miss Scholtz
of Wailuku demonstrated the value
of phonic drill in the teaching of
reading Her second grade pupils
pronounced at sight words of from
one to six syllables, and read from
the fourth reader without hesita-
ton.
Miss Orchard of Puunene illus
trated her method of drill in mental
arithmetic with class of third and
fourth grade pupils, who answered
her rapid-fire questions with an ac-
curacy and promptness quite sur
prising. Using the same class of
pupils, Mrs. Austin of Waihee ex-
hibited her method with story work.
The free and original manner in
which some of the children repro
duced the story, won the applause
of the spectators.
Supervising Principal Wells then
gave a reading lesson to class COM
posed of third and fourth grade
pupils, his object being to suggest
to teachers who have more than
one grade how to economize time
and labor, and how to stimulate
the pupils to do as much as possible
for themselves. At the conclusion
Of this number recess for luncheon
was taken.
On reassembling, after solo by
Miss Scholtz, accompanied by Mic
Short, Miss Fleming of Hamak
poke read a carefully pr