Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08
THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
SCHOOL SUPERVISORS
OPENS TODAY.
MANY NOTED EDUCATORS
TO APPEAR ON PROGRAM
More Than $50 superintsndents, Prin-
S eipals and Others in Attendance at
Iowa City Meeting, which Will Con-
tinus Turnout saturday-Dr. Jsssup,
Of S u. l., Opens Conference.

Special to Times Republican,.
Iowa City, Dec. S.-The third annual
conference of supervisors of Iowa
schools Is in progress here today ana
will continue turnout Saturday. More
than $50 prominent superintendent,
principals and others are in attend
ance. Prot o. e. Klingaman' director
of the university of Iowa extension dt-
vision, prof. r. M. Stewart, Prof. Err
est Horn, Prof. e. E. Lewis, DR.. r. =.
Ensign, and Prof E. j. Ashbaush' OIL
IS u. l., are among the presiding oii'-
GERS, Contributors to the choice pro-
grams will be Prof. George G. Strayer'
Columbia University: Prof. FranKin
w. johnson, University OF Chicago;
Prof. charles E. Chadsey, superintend-
emit Of the schools of Detroit. MICH
Leonard p. Ayres, director OF educa-
ton, Russell Sage Foundation; state
Supervisor Mabel Carney. of the MIN
nesota normal training high schools. OF
st. Paul, Mimi, and. other notable eou-
Gators of various states.
The address of welcome, opening the
conference, was delivered by DR.. wal
ter A. Jessup. president of Iowa l,pi-
versity.
Old Style Reading Doomed.
The old kind of readip' is doomed Tor
the scrap heap.
Days when Johnnie. and Susie VIII
stand by their seats and read IN SLOW
monotony, "This is a cat. See the 1at
rat. Can the dog rum are rapidly
passing.
The problem, teachers are facing now
is to teach children TO read silently
without following the lines with
smudgy forefinger or moving the Ups,
but instead to get the thought q what
they read. ,s ass
This is essentially what Dean F. j.
Kelly. Of the University fiof kansas.
told superintendents and gbther school
folk who, attended the opening sessions
to-day.
Dean Kelly spoke at the afternoon
session. The visiting educators were
received sinS the mornin. with an ad-
dress of welcome by President Jessup'
of the university. and heard addresses
on Supervision of Normal Training
High schools. by Mabel Carney, of st.
Paul Mimi, f.Stahdards for Measuring
the Junior. High School,. by E. r.
Lewis, of the university; an address by
Leonard P. Ayres,/ director OF educa-
ton of the Russell Sage Foundation,
and Recent Research in Making his
tory Curricula," by Ernest Horn, oftthe
university.
u To Teach Silent Reading.
"The essential point which the move
ment for testing reading has brought
out is the problem Of teaching silent
reading as distinct from the problem or
teaching oral reading,Ys Dean KEN.
said. 3s.A
Our schools have been devotins the
major emphasis to oral reading and the
class hours have been given up largely
to testing -children's ability to stand
before the class and read orally por-
ton Of the selection being studied.
Since life demands ability to master
thought for ones self far more than it
demands oral reading, the more i'm
.portant aspect of the teachers problem
is to develop that thought-getting abil-
ity The tests have revealed that the
ability to read orally does not imply
the ability to read equally well silent
~"
To strengthen silent reading ability
the Kansas man proposed such devices
as substituting action carrying out the
thought Of the sentence for reading 1t
aloud, checking Of the tendency to use
the speech organs ins5silent reading,
finding Opportunities to give directions
for doing things in handwork, manual
training. games, and SO ION in printed
form so children mustfcenter their at
tention upon the thought rather than
the words, testing oral reading by the
interest manifested by the audience.
He also suggested special attention for
children above normal and below nor
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