The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-24
School Notice.

be glad to receive them. In making
out the monthly reports will you
kindly give the boys and girls items
separately and the total 1t seems
that many forget to make out the
items separately. The items are alb
solutely essential and trust all the
teachers will find convenient time to
make the reports in full.
If you will observe the registers
first pages you will find directions as
to how it should be kept. There are
eighteen points in these directions
and they are by 10 means to be ig-
| nored. If any teacher does not un-
dcrstand how to properly keep her
register, or to make out her monthly
reports, or to make out her annual
report at the close of school, if she
will come by the Office l will take a
pleasure in assisting her. The law
requires the monthly report to
be handed i'll to the board before the
board issues warrant for the teach
er's salary. l hope the boards and
teachers will SEQ that the monthly
reports are promptly sent in and
that the annual reports are made out
before the last months business is
closed.
r. Near the close of the register there
is a space for data headed "Stcnding
of Pupils at Close of Term" Will
each teacher please enroll her pupils
under this heading at the close of
the school by grades, giving the
grade tho pupil is in for the current
year and the grade to which the
pupil is promoted for the next year.
If the pupil is not promoted, the
item "grade to which promoted" is
left blank. Also please give the
pupils grade in each one of his sub
jects.
And may mention about grading.
l am of the opinion that many teach
ors grade pupils too highly. Teach
ers desire for their pupils to have
good grades become SO fixed in their
minds that thru their good inten-
tions and sympathies for their stu
dents to have complimentary aver
ages and wishing for the parents to
be pleased, they almost unconscious
ly give a child more than he is
worth I would rather have q child
graded for just what he can do and
let no one be fooled. If he makes a
grade of one hundred, give him one
hundred; if he makes grade OF less
than fifty, give him just what he can
do. / believe that close grading will
be best for the child, increase his
efficiency and make the work more
thoro; then If the child is required
to pass standards which really de-
mand some effort, in later life when
he is put to the test where the good
wishes of his teacher are not known
nor the ambitions of his parents are
of no consequence, there will be few
er sad disappointments when his
work alone is his only refuge. OF
course in this particular I'm speak
ing only to teachers who grade their
schools and have tests and grade
their pupils.
There is one point l am going to
ask the teachers to keep differently |
to what the Directions to Teach
ers' for keeping the register says.
Article XI says: ITO denote the
branches of study pursued by pupil,
place a mark or figure CD in the
square opposite the pupils name in
the proper column" Instead of do
ing that / wish the teacher to give
the grade the pupil made each month
in each subject. Then in looking
over the work of each school l can
see exactly what each pupil is doing,
and when the teacher who follows
you gets your old register to see,
from it, the conditions of the new
field in which she is to work another
year, she can become perfectly IA
niliar with the work, which other
wise she would have to find out for
herself This will save time and
and will give tho school
,horo start, whereas, as it most often
S, the school is begun with more
,r less hit and miss method; that is,
he new teacher has to try out and
earn for herself just how the work
S and should be--all of which time
hould be devoted to taking up the
work where it ended from last school
md go right on with it during the
resent term. Our rural schools are
hort enough at best and every hour
aved is much made. The more we !
an cooperate, coordinate and cor {
elate, the better for us.
l hope to be able to see most of /
he schools this year. / want to
york with the teachers, pupils and s
arents for the best possible results. s