Arizona republican., 1914-04-12

Randall has won the respect and ad miration of the teachers of Maricopa county. Miss MacNulty, of Tempe Normal. the new president, will have the support of the entire association in the work of the year to come.
 The program opened with talk Dn music by Mrs. Luther Stewart, of Glendale and the Arizona school of Music Primarily. Mrs. Stewart an foUnced d course in music for public school teachers The length of time to finish the course will depend upon the number of lessons taken per week and previous training. The outline Of the course will take up methods of teaching in public schools. practice teaching. harmony. sight reading. ear training and melody writing. care of the child voice. pedal sogy. chorus directing, history of music. instrumental (enough to ac company)). terminology. choral prac- tice and voice.
 Mrs. Stewart will direct the course and announced after the meeting that she will write an outline and 1lirec- tions for the teachings of every months work This outline will ap- pear in The Arizona Teacher" be ] sinning with the May issue.
 The geography outlines for the grammar grades were prepared and presented by Miss Rock Miss smith and Miss Hillock Miss Oelesby pre- pared the primary outlines Miss Rock emphasized the fact that go oeraphy should be correlated with : fife In the study of industries. Miss Rock would not stop with our coun- ! try. Miss Smith presented some in teresting suggestions. Geography should be comparative: draw com
 parisons with our own soil. climate productions when Africa or North i America is studied. Altogether she | urged that in teaching geography the high places be touched. Miss Hallock presented an interesting and helpful bibliography of text books and maga i zines which would be of help foI ! supplementary work.
 | Mr Irish. of Tempe talked in- formally on the teaching of geog-
 raphy Pupils should be taught to read and interpret maps for sooo understanding of the subject.
 MT Irish suggested that the teach CT do d lot of map drawing herself
 and believed that better results
 would be obtained if pupils were
 supplied with outlined maps. H,
 would begin the study of geography
 with the drawing of rainfall map
 temperature map and a wind map
 He urged the teachers to use tn
 government Typographical maps ant
 teach the use of them.
 After the discussion of geography
 the association settled down to busi-
 ness. It was voted to hold a ban
 quet May at the san Marcos hote
 in Chandler. The following officer:
 were elected for the next schoo
 year: President. Miss MacNulty
 vice president, MT. Rummel secre
 tary and treasurer MT. Judson.
 President Randall explained tn plans for the institute to he hel, next fall The teachers voted to hol, the institute during fair week MI Randall threw open before the meet ing the question as to whether tn association should print the outline of the subjects discussed during tn year It was suggested that the eX pense would be great The editor c the Arizona Teacher extended to tn association the pages of that iourna for. the purpose of printing the sai outlines. The offer was accepte and d standing vote was accorde MT. Colodny for the courtesy.
 The business over. the teachers re