The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-08-28

AZURE. debating. aud served as vice
president of city schools IN one OF the
iarper towns IN the State, she com
Melted the course of training mt the
state Normal school aud served as
substitute in training department and
became principal of elementary
schools schools al some
pnipts and reorganizing them at 9th
ers She made reputation Tor reacil
ing ditiicult cases, reforming lhcefil-
gibles and managing local school situ
ations and assisted in training teach-
ers in monthly county institutes, IN
state summer normals and within lhe
school faculty
"The last four years in the state,
lust preceding nv coming to New
York to enter Columbia University
abe said. Il served "a class teacher to
the sixth grade IN the Newman Man
nal Training School of New Orleans
This school draws from a large or
phan asy lum, and each year my class
contained several membess who were
unable to learn BY usual school meth
DDS. Nv plan was 10 correlate All
class work with their hand activities,
and to try out the theories OF DrF.
Dewey and McMurry, of Columbia on
socializing the ehild and teaching
him how to think and how to Study.
Every school subject was PROVIDED
for by the SPECIAL departments OF
wood and metal work, domestic art
and science, pottery, art and design,
the garden, athletics, etc.
For example, review of denomi-
nate numbers, fractions, decimals,
etc. was affected by neans OF an i'm
aginary house, which was planned on
scale. built by contract, flushed and
furnished by communities in the
class. bills discounted and house IN
sured In painting it complex frac-
tions were worked with foot rule.
"The first summer at Teachers Col
lege, New York. became an active
worker in the psychological cline,
where backward pupils were brought
before the class Ny first case there,
a very serious speech defect, was the
record case for the clinic, and at the
request of the director an account OF
it was published in the Psychological
Clinic for November, l9ll
From that time / have had private
and clinical corrective work, for some
of which | received college credit.
The nature of the disabilities correct
ed varies from absent or defective
speech, defective vision, absent OF
imperfect hearing to the more alb
sttact and elusive difficulties ofa lack
of number appreciation, OF concen-
trat,on. or Judgment, or moral sense.
est IZn CT
auently has a physical basis that
have come to depend in all serious
cases upon the help Of the skiliiul
physician, lest the unstable OF over
tense nervous system should suflei
from over stimulation.
1.-THE two degrees and the diplomg
in education earned in the two years
of residence at Columbia University
represent a substantial part OF my
training of the last four years, bui
only part. In addition to it | have
worked in hospital clinics, in my owl
clinic, with physicians and IN institu
tons where mental irregularities are
treated with varying degrees OF EN-
lighte nmens aud success. In making
Investigations for charity and sehoo
thousand persons and recorded The
psychological diagnosis.
ut is now my purpose TO establish
private school where children whs
are unable to keep up with class WORK
may live under the most favorable
conditions for physical and menta
development, and where each chile
will get what is best suited to hts IN
dividual needs. To that end | shall
have a trained nurse as house mother
aud specially trained assistants K
help me with the mental work. Tbs
number of pupils will be strictly lin
tied especially for the first year o.
two IN order that the plan may be de
finitely contaminated
The location of the new school vii
announced In few days, also the fac
ulty, terms, etc.
MAMIE EDDINGTON.