Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-11-11
IMPORTANT MEETING OF COUNTY
TEACHERS HERE ON NOV 20.
Two Session Plan for Teachers, Meet
iRgs Will be Discussed; Interest
ing Program Arranged.

| Because a number of the teacners
wish to attend the North Carolina
| Teachers assembly in Raleigh on
| Nov. "a, 25 and 26, the next melting of
the Henderson County Teachers Asso-
citation will be held on Nov. Goth This
lids fair to be a very interesting ses-
son and all teachers are urged to be
present.
Two SessOn RIan for Meetings..
| Besides the regular program, the
question of two session plan for the
meetings will be discussed. This
should interest all progressive teach
eTs. who desire to get the most out of
the monthly meetings. Under the
present arrangement our programs,
tho usually interesting, are crowded
into such short time that we cannot
get the fullest benefit from the
!, Often excellent addresses, requiring an
hour. must be delivered in half that
! time; and it is not unusual to intro
/ duce a speaker with the request that
he confine his remarks to five or ten
minutes. Recently we have been conf
PEELED to omit interesting and helpful
numbers from the program for lack Of
! time.
Possibly the most serious defect in
our present plan, is the fact that. we
have little opportunity to know eacl
| other. No organization, whose mems
| bers barely know each other by sight,
can hope to accomplish much. We
! eve it to ourselves and to the schools
1 We represent to become acquainted,
| in order that we may know more OF
] tie problems that confront each teach
1 or fhn-
lution. of these problems If a half
hour at each meeting could be devoted
to social intercourse, it would add im-
mensely to the enjoyment of the occa-
sion and at the same time, would tend
i to draw out the more timid and reti-
cent teachers besides encouraging
them to take an active part in the
| program.
Again, our roundtable discussion.
have gone a-begging of late. Yet this
| is one of the most helpful features of
the meeting. The writer has, on diff
/ ferent occasions, been greatly helped.
| by a roundtable discussion held in the
county superintendent's Office afteEreE
.ular meeting was over, and when only
two or three teachers were present.
EDoe we not need to know what other
teachers are doing, what their aims
! are and what methods they have found
most effectiyeass We pay our subscrip-
| tions to educational periodicals to
learn what teachers In Tennessee Or.
| New York are doing, and neglect the.
means of : obtaining, right at home,s
this fnformation-from home teachers
through the roundtable discussion
| This department OF the meeting should
be given place on every program.
! foI from no other source may be had
such valuable aid as comes from meet.
| ing other teachers in an informal dis
cussion of school management, dis
cipline and teaching.
(, The roundtable discussion is the
cnly means we have of giving ali
teachers an. opportunity for seH-eX-
preston at each, meeting. Wh1ie
knowing this, lack of time has conr5
PEELED us to use the time at each meet
ing for other things On certain oc
si0ns in the past when this discuss.
was attempted it did not prove as sue
cessful as it might have, because some
teachers, thro' timiditys a few thFo'
! fear of prolonging the meeting beyond
train time. and others, because they
think perhaps their problems will not
interest the other. teachers, refrain
from entering heartily into the dis
eussion-all of which goes to prove
we need more time and to become ac-
quainted with each other.
Each teacher is an important part
OF the educational force in Henderson
county, and not one should lack the
opportunity for gallant expression. No
matter how small the problem IL
should be threshed out in teachers
meeting and solution arrived at. Tne
individual experience of some one
teacher may be of great value to many
others. Why not bring all this out IN
our meetings? We are all workers to-
gether with one common aim in view
the educating of the boys and girls
of Henderson county. 1t is our dutv
to use every means at our command
to give them the best in us. Let US
seize this opportunity of acquainting
ourselves with the best methods in
use in our county.
To be sure, all this will take time
more time than we have been devot-
ing to our monthly meetings. The
solution is the TWo-Session Plan. This,
means, according to the suggestion of
fered at the last meeting, one session
OF Friday night and the second on Sat
urday forenoon. This plan is work
ing well in Nash and other counties,
and what these have done Henderson,
can do The people in Nashville the
county seat OF Nash. are glad to en-
terrain the teachers from Friday af-
ternoon until Saturday noon, and this
saves the expense which might other
wise make the Friday night session
impractical
The frequency of these meetings and
the mode of entertainment are mat
tiers to be worked out.
The County Commencement.
si6ered at the next meeting is the
County Commencement. Cur first ct
tempt in this direction proved such
great success, that it seems safe to