The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-10-30
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HINTS TO TEACHERS.
No. 2. School Exhibitions.

No school term is complete with
out an exhibition. Nothing can
take the place of an exhibition for
stirring up interest among pupils
and parents. II need not be great
or difficult affair. IL can easily be
so managed as to help and not hin
der the regular work of the school.
By the first of November, the
teachers plans should be completed
and the whole district beginning to
talk about school exhibitions. There
should be a closing exhibition. 80
that the school will close in burst
of glory and not dwindle down and
die of neglect at the end. But in
advance OF this final exhibition
there should be one or two Visitors
Days" or Friday afternoons" in
which students will give something
Of an exhibition and they and the
teacher will learn how to do It'll
First of all, there should be a lit
tie music. The Citizen publishes
this week one good and simple piece,
and we shall give others as the
weeks go on. II is the teachers
business to know how to teach sing
ing. If he is so unfortunate not to
be singing master, he can probably
find some older student or neigh
Dor in the district who will step in
TO help in this matter. But the
poorest kind Of singing is better than
10 singing at all. II unifies the
school, it touches the imagination
and the heart
Secondly, there should be an &C
tual exhibition of school work.
People say the spelling match" is
Oid-fashiOned. So are peaches and
cream, but we never get enough OF
either. From the very beginning
the teacher should be saving up the
common words which are likely to
be misspelled. IL is not we'll to
search for rare and unused words.
And there should be some number
work, which the whole school will
listen TO with interest and which
visitors will appreciate and enjoy.
A few problems from Calfee's Rural
Arithmetic on measuring lumber, or
giving. balanced ration for stock,
will be splendid. And a set of
questions on history or geography,
or a grammar lesson which should
be parsed" and bring out the
meaning of some familiar law or
passage Of scripture, will be mat
ter of interest to everybody.
And in the third place, there is
speaking pieces" Nothing devel-
ops a child or older scholar more
than committing TO memory some
fitting piece and reciting il before
the school. The one caution is that
il should be recited naturally. Be
very careful that before the pupil
begins TO learn his piece, he per-
fectly understands every word of
Il.
Then there should be number
of rehearsals after school. A good
teacher never sees his pupils grow
SO rapidly as when they are thus
taught to express fine sentiments in
natural and fOrceful way. The
Citizen is providing this week one
or two pieces suitable for declama-
ton, and will furnish others later.
Every thoughtful teacher will have
a scrap book in which he has saved
up good pieces.
Two matters OF planning are ne
oessary. In the first place see TO
II that each piece is appropriate TO
the scholar, simple pieces for the
little children, and things more sd-
yanced for those older. And in the
second place see that the program
is like a well-matched bouquet with
different kinds OF pieces-some hu-
morous, some pathetic, some prac-
teal, so that the audience will have
a Balanced Ration"