The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27
BEGIN SEMESTER
WITH INSTITUTE
Teachers Will Devote Week to
Preparation for Opening
of Schools.
DESIRED THAT CHILDREN
REPORT FIRST MORNING
Assignments of Pupils Tuesday,
September 5: High School
Registration.

Institute week for the teachers OF the
public schools of the city will begin
Monday morning. and the entire week
will be spent in preparatory work for
the opening OF schools on the morning
of Tuesday, September 5. The custom
in past years has been to open the
schools one week earlier, but this year
the opening has been postponed for
one week. in order that the first week
of the school yea- :..Gy be devoted to
institute work among the teachers. This
is an innovation in TINS city, it being
the first year the school year has ever
been opened with an institute of the
teachers, but Superintendent D, III:
Christensen is of the opinion that 1t Will
prove extremely satisfactory.
The institute will be held in the vari-
Gus buildings at the high school. 1t Will
open Monday morning at 10 clock
with meeting of all teachers IN the
high school gymnasium assembly hall,
when the teachers will be addressed by
superintendent Christensen and the
Rev Peter A. Simpkin, pastor of the
Phillips Congregational church of this
city The meetings will continue
afternoon the teachers will meet with
the principals at their respective build
ipgs 70 make necessary arrangements
for the opening Of schools the following
Tuesday morning. The distribut OF
books and supplies and other such mat
ters vii! be attended TO at that time.
Plan Numerous Meetings.
During the institute week it is be.
lieyed there will be more educational
meetings in single week held in this
city than ever before. AS many as
twelve or fifteen meetings of teachers
in various departments will be held
each day and the work OF the school
wear in this way will be thoroughly
gone over and the teachers will be given
an excellent opportunity to accustom
themselves to the work which is laid out
for them. In this way it Is believed
that the work can be made a great
deal more satisfactory and the pupils
will benefit from the knowledge
acquired by the teachers at these meet
ings.
In spite of the fact that there was a
slight decrease in the school census this
year. Superintendent Christensen IS OF
the opinion that the registration Will
be equally as heavy and perhaps heav-
Ter than that of last year. During the
1lrSt week or laSJ year IOOdI VI ltp
902 students registered in all of the
schools, including the high school, while
at the end of the second week the regis
tration had grown to l6.4S3. The reg
istration at the high school the first
week numbered lls0. while at the close
Of the second week it was 1888.
Set Registration Days.
Registration days for entrance to the
high school viii be next Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday afternoons be.
tween the hours of 2 and 4 'elock.
This is primarily for students just en-
tering the high school. This system is
adopted so that parents and guardians
of the students may be given an op.
portunity TO go to the school with the
new entrants aud discuss the arrange.
ments OF the studies and courses with
tbe teachers.
Pupils who have been regularly pro
noted from the eighth grade from any
part of the city will be received at the
high school. All certificates of promo
tiou TO the high school issued by other
school systems or issued by private
schools must be approved by the super.