The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-01-15

this work is unnecessary.
One Of the problems town to devise system
by which the Of pupils be recorded that teachers
they begin they
the school, they have frequently replied that their know
rural schools caused by going over the same subject is proveb
page which they began rather than that which they concluded
the preceding term have been able to go over the same subject three
ons certainly are possible in many towns some Of them in unions
previously attended the school but nearly hopeless the children
who for the first time from other towns Often the teacher must
than that they arithmetic book with black covers
by the union should be 50 ystemaze that they Would
be uniform throughout the state committee of the superintendent
such record forms They only keep
na by When compelled to supply such records
Of anything except the most essential facts the expenditure of their
In matters pertaining the actual supervision instruction the
apart the roads billy and bad The details organi
demanded great deal of their time In the moreover
training TSer as principals has not
@ the Of
the elementary school The state board Of EDUCATION now requires
tend improve conditions One Of the common methods employed by
often happens subsequent made to
give results because the teacher not convinced that the class was
that they did not know whether the superintendent testing
Of unions however there ustaabe evidence Of efficient super
vision The teachers and the superintendent are working together for
IS deseopng ''' spun
preceding paragraph mention made the emphasis upon
school distinguished the side content
Too often the superintendent have encouraged this attitude
much handwriting the parsng and anazng and da-
the arlth
than determine the efficiency of instruction English
composition history nature study geography Not nfrequent
suggestions teacher recall that the children
with should sit straight 1t is quite probable
the the fact that the children
reading sitting they should What she most needed help
conditions that they could read The
superintendent usually liberal praing their teachers general
but often they leave them ignorant of the xceenes of their
work. they of its defects
particular the superintendent accustomed to attend to the
products rather than to the of instruction The Of
teaching the should be
ed by the principles that the teacher because their aims
the His duty however the difficult because while he
the pupils make the adjustment through the
the other hand the teacher only with the pupils
unreasonable to effective supervision when teachers
change positions often that they become fully acquainted
with the conditions under which they Neither be expected
those unions where false notion of keeps the schools
without sufficient supplies them such variety of texts
that the possibly adapt the work each of them
The making Of of study not brief task In
the superintendent option but the teachers complete
a certain portion of the text each term.
is inevitable that proportion
of the superintendent time and be devoted admin
save details connected with organization The tendency will always
for the superintendent to administrator rather
than supervisor instruction Escape from this condition must be
found better organization Some of those who have held office for
have already accomplished this Many of the statements
the time the law creating this office passed show that
those responsible for expected that efficient supervision would be
development In this they correct If the present
tendn leave their positions could not be filled at with