Newark post., 1919-07-09
NEWARK CHILDREN
HAVE EXCEPTIONAL
OPPORTUNITY
Will Receive Training From
Experts in the Demon
stration School


sion Of Delaware College will be
the Demonstration School, in which
the value of various methods of
teaching will be demonstrated for
the benefit of the teacher-students
upon classes of real youngsters.
The school has outgrown the two
rooms which it occupied last year
in Science Hall at the Women s
College, and will use the Newark
Grammar School building on Della
ware Avenue.
The Demonstration School is in
charge of Miss Snyder, the we'll
known Eighth Grade teacher in the
Newark Schools. Her staff consists
of three experts, one in grammar
grade methods, Miss Grace I.
Atchinson, Sixth Grade teacher in
the Oak Lane Country Day School,
Philadelphia, Pa, who comes high
ly recommended; and two in pri-
mary teaching and methods, Miss
Louise L. Stone, primary teacher
in the public schools of Lima, Ohio,
and Miss Grace Pattison, primary
teacher at Scarborough School,
scarborough -on-Hudson. r here
will be a class for teachers in
grammar-grade methods, taught by
Miss Snyder herself, and a cor
responding class of grammar
grade children in which the meth
ods taught by Miss Snyder will be
illustrated by Miss Atchinson.
Similarly, methods of teaching in
the primary grades, taught by
Miss Pattison, will be demonstrated
by Miss Stone, in her little class
OF primary grade children. In this
way, instruction and illustration
will go forward side by side.
The youngsters to be thus en-
ployed for purposes Of illustration
will undoubtedly be gamers by the
process, and probably will not only
learn great deal but have a very
good time. They will be boys and
girls, of all grades from the 1st to
the Sth, who have deficiencies to
make up before they are promoted
in the regular grades, or else whose
parents believe that they will be
better off in the Demonstration
School than out Of it. If the ex-
perience of last year is repeated,
there will also be a sprinkling &C
exceptionally bright children il the
group, with the result that it will
present to the teachers the class
problem Of average, or if anything
OF little more than average, diff
ficulty.
They will have the use of four
rooms at the School, two class
rooms, the Eighth Grade Library,
the room where the furniture has
been made, the neat curtains print
ed, the library classified, and the
chairs and the woodwork painted,
all by the children themselves, and
the attic. The attic is the work
shop, provided with a kit of tools
which the children will learn to
use on rainy days repairing furni-
ture or making things" The
chairs and desks had not yet been
placed in the class-roOms on Satur-
day, for these are fitted to the
children when they arrive, and the
number Of odd shapes and sizes
among the thirty six children who
have applied for entrance cannot
be figured out in advance.
The little examples will have en-
viable hours, for they will go to
school at $50 and be free again at
l1.20. Between 10 and II they will
have one free hour, when they can
do as they please in and about the
grounds and buildings. They may
play games Of their own, or use
the playground, which the Ac-
ademy Trustees on Monday last
fitted out with modern apparatus,
such as sliding boards, sand piles,
see-saws, and so forth; or they may
tend the grounds, or use the tools
up in the workshop to make re-
pairs. In this hour they are to fol-
low their own bent, and try what
there is in expressing oneself.
Just what the youngsters get out
of model educational treatment for
six weeks, not only in height,
weight and chestiness, but in men,
tai growth, will be accurately
measured and set down in red and
black on the back of their registra-
ton cards. They will be put
through standard tests, such as the
Stone Reasoning Test, the Woody
Arithmetic Test, the Monroe Silent
READING Test. and others at the