Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-23
SUMMER SCHOOL AT
STATE UNIVERSITY
A Great Factor In Elementary School
Improvement in Georgia.

The Summer School for Teachers
has come to be one Of the greatest
of institutions in nearly every state
of the United States. With educa-
ton changing, new subjects coming
in, old methods being recast, even
the best prepared teachers feel the
need every two or three years of the
broadening contacts and new points
of view obtained in our best summer
schools In Georgia many teachers
have second and third grade license,
evidencing that the original prepare
ton has not been the best. The
University Summer School plans for
all such teachers or prospective
teachers, to extend and broaden the
scholarship of some, to bring others
up to standard, and to present to all
in education.
A Greater School.
This School for the 1916 session
will probably be the best of its kind
in the United States. Not five per
cent of Georgia teachers who will go
to summer school this year need
to go to Harvard, Columbia, Chicago,
or any school outside of Georgia for
better offerings than will be found
in the Georgia Summer School. Here
will combine three institutions, the
State University, the State College of
Agriculture, and the State Normal
School in one Summer School. The
talent of these faculties will be at
the service of the teachers. Other
teachers In Georgia have been called
in, and still others from many parts
of the United States.
Teaching Talent.
In primary reading and spelling,
Mrs. Alexander of the State Normal
School will be the principal teacher.
For general primary methods and
with special applications in arithme-
tic, language and history, Miss Esta-
line Wilson comes from the State
Normal School at Warrensburg, Mo.
Miss Wilson received the B. S. in
Education degree from the Univer-
sity of Missouri, and the A. M. de-
gree from Columbia University with
special Diploma from Teachers Col
lege. She is a gifted teacher and
supervisor.
Miss Wilson will also give course
in Principles of Teaching applied to
the common branches in grades 5th,
9Th and 7th.
For Penmanship, Miss Mary E.
Banks comes from the A. N. Palmer
Co., N. Y. City, the home of the cele-
brated Palmer system.
For Geography, the instructor will
be DR.. F. A. Millidge of the State
Normal College, Farmville, Va. DR..
Millidge has his Phi. D. degree from
the University of Chicago, and he has
a reputation unsurpassed as a teach
er of Geography. He will give a
course in Primary Geography, and
another course for Higher Geography.
For Nature Study, DR.. Clifton F.
Hodge comes from far away Univer-
sity of Oregon. He is the author of
Nature Study and Life, the first i'm
portant book on Nature Study pub
lished, and the one still most widely
used.
These are mentioned to Indicate
the quality of instruction given in
the Georgia Summer School for 1916.
Not a phase of modern school work
for primary and general elementary
subjects will be omitted, but every
thing covered in thoro manner by
teachers of great reputation, many of
them authors of note.
Reviews and Other Courses.
There will be common school re-
views covering all the branches.
Courses in school management, or
ganization of play as well as work,
boys and girls clubs, home econom-
les for rural schools, drawing and
blackboard sketching are among the
many helpful courses to improve the
teachers. Special courses will apply
to the problems of rural life and edu-
cation, considering the one-teacher
school end the consolidated school.
Other special courses will be devoted
similarly to teachers and problems of
town and city schools.
School improvement.
How to improve our teachers and
our schools is great problem in
Georgia and the South. The Univer-
sity Summer School is one of the
greatest agencies In helping towards
the solution. Get the teachers to this
school, and the improvement in the
schools will be marked. The expenses
of the session are the lowest, and
teachers should be encouraged in
every possible way to attend. Boards
and superintendents are urged to con-
slider this. 1t is not an uncommon
practice for superintendent to map