The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-23

Will cover competitive games. It will give training to those who coach teams in the various forms of athletics and who can not attend a normal school of physical
 training. In this course they will receive practical work and there will be explana. tlon Of the rules governing sports. MT Courleux will have charge of this work MISS Ransom will teach swimming and also folk danceN The swimming pool al
 the nigh school was an attractive feature
 oI the summer school last year. and il VIII undoubtedly be employed this sum-
 mer' Miss Ransom will haze classes for beginners as well as an advanced cla ss Study of Spanish and Geography
 An entirely new feature will be com mercial geography and history of South
 -Ainerlca and classes in Spanish languag ge ana literature The commercial interest
 Tn Central and South America has been so greatly increased by the opening of
 the Panama canal that there is a general ueslre to know more thoroughly the his tory, geography. langua8 and customs ol the people of those countries
 Commercial Department
 MT. Grain and MT. Anthony will teach
 bookkeeping, stenography, typewriting commercial arithmetic, commercial cor respondence and penmanship. This has oeen department of the high school for y Sni ssf dn0 tn1S summer TOT the
 nrst time the work will be carried on in
 connection with the summer school Mr Sain IS in charge of this department al hhsley High school, and MT. Anthony is supervisor of penmanship in the elemen- tary schools having this year introduced
 the arm movement writing in all grades
 In addition to this work he taught in the
 night school during the winter
 Methods of Administration An Indication of the excellent lines on which the school is planned is the course III aoministration, instruction and super vision It is, planned for the benefit of
 all school officials, including those hay.
 ing charge of Sunday schools as well as
 those serving in different capacities ir literary schools.
 Miss Wilson. supervisor of kindergar r. tens in the city schools, will teach kin dergarten methods adapting her worl
 to primary Sunday school teachers as wei as to kindergarteners. Miss Bradford
 will have class of teachers specializ- ing in primary work. her talks being along the lines that will be suitable for Sunday school work and for first and sec. ond grades of the elementary schools MT. Glenn. who is so thoroughly ia.
 miiar with the elementary schools. and
 who is a deep student of their various phases, will give series of talks on ad-
 ministration and instruction in the diff. ferent grades.
 MT. Brown, principal of the Central High school, will take the same lines in high schools. This is phase of school work that has not heretofore been empha sized
 except in city schools, the country high school being merely an extension of the elementary course. With the developmen, of this department of the country and small town schools it is well to have this course in high school administration General methods of administration and instruction will be the theme of lectures | to be given by Dr. Phillips These will be given for city and town school super. intendents. supervisors, boards of edusa. l ton and for superintendents and officers
 of Sunday schools.
 l These five series of lectures will take
 up the entire work of school admnistra.
 ton, from the supervisor or teacher oi
 the youngest children to the superinten. dent of an entire system.
 l On each Friday Miss Wilson will have a
 story hour, teaching the art of story telling and also giving stories suitable fo,
 different stages.
 The teachers will have the opportunit,
 of hearing Dr. McLester once each week
 on ''The Health of the Child"
 l In connection with the summer trainine
 school there will be classes for high schoo l students who wish to take extra worl
 10 strengthen along certain lines or tt
 remove conditions This school will b.
 used as a model school in high schoo
 administration and for teachers who wish
 to study high school methods. The same plan will be carried but with the ele.
 mentary school to be in session this sum-