The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-06
DEFECTS IN WIRING TEACHERS MEETING
ALEXANDER COUNTY INSTITUTE
OPENED WITH LARGE AT
TENDANCE.
Able instructors Tell of Best Methods
OF Work In All Departments.
Program fer
Today.

To-day
The Alexander County Teachers IN
stitute was called to order at $3.50 by
Supt Colt
Music led by Mrs. Miller Chapel ex'
ereises led by Prof Booth.
Prof. Booth occupied the first periol
with an excellent talk on teaching
arithmetic. He said in part that
teachers should teacn the essentia
more thoroughly, emphazing accuracy
first and second speed and neatness
few things well learned and let
those be essensial things
Prog. E. Z. yanCleve followed win
an interesting talk on reading,
The last period in the morning was
given TO Miss Mead of Decatur. Miss
Mead's introductory talk on primary
reading was full of helpful sugges-
tons and her work promises to rs
Of great value to those teachers VINO
have the beginners and should DO
carefully followed,
Attendance was extra fine for inc
first morning. Tae yisotrs were Mrs,
Fannie P. Hacker and Mrs. Carrie
Hudson
Afternoon Session.
Pedagogy.
Prof Booth mentioned how 70
measure ourselves and how to find
out the best methods and how to i'm.
prove ourselves as teachers. First
through observation, visiting other
good teachers and seeing them handle
the work we'll. Second through our
own experience. Third we learn
through reading good books and.
studying the subject thoroughly after
the best authors.
The big part of the teachers work
is to correct the forms of language.
beard at home, at school and on tho
street. The teacher should use judg-
ment to gain the confidence of the
child so that her instruction will be
appreciated The child learns better
forms Of language from four sources
First, from the teacher; second from
the story book; third from the fan-
guage study; fourth and least of all is
Grammar
First section, sectional meeting 3
p. m. After a ten minutes intermIs-
sion Prof VanCleve gave talk On
teaching geography in the common
schools. The present system OF
teaching a two-booh series of geog
raphies costing about two dollars Is
wastetul tax on the people and the
results are not satisfactory. In Ger
many they have a one-book course
costing about one-sixth as much AMI
much more practical Our course
could easily be cut in half as to eX-
pense and pages in the text and more
than doubled in usefulness to the
child by more careful and system
attic arrangement. Where it is pos
sible a part of the geography work
should be done ont of doors Outdoor
work to be successful; must be well
planned before starting from the
school room and pupils must be taker
TO as secluded spot as possible SO
as to avoid outsiders interruptjng or
interfering with the work.
Second section. Primary teachers,
p. m. Miss Mead gaA special IN
struction to teachers having work h
the first to fourth grades.
There was good interest shown ana
all were well pleased with the way
Miss Mead handled the problems OF
primary instruction.
I 3:30 Music period. Mrs. Miller's
talk on music and the songs sung
made the most pleasant and helpful
period in the first days session. 1t
was enjoyed by all, Those teacher )
/ who can catch even a small part of
Mrs. Miller's inspiration and love Of
/ mgsic have something to carry C
their school room which viii be OF
lvalue to both teacher and school.
I Supt Clendenen closed the session
with talk on the following avoids =
Avoid the rut of overwork. Plas
each day 1t is good medicine.
! AVOID wasting time telling what
a glorious time you had You may
overdo It. You may neglect you,
work.
3-Avoid forgetting vows you male
during vacation. To exercise daily
TO take brisk walk. To take ter
minute breather morning and night
70 do a five minute bender, morning
and night.
4--Avoid being irregular in exercis
ing. Stick to it and nave vacauol
spirits the year round.
Avoid neglectins your profel
sional reading. Papers books
G-Avoid growing one-sided.
This closed the first days wort
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