Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1921-11-11
OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS.

Supt. Barrow has requested the
publication Of the following circular
letters for the benefit of the teachers
IN the parish:
State Of Louisiana Department Of
Education, Baton Rouge.
Your attention is especially d.
rected to the following list of books
for use in the Teachers Reading
Course Of the State for the session
1921-22:
Botts's "Social Principles Of Edu-
cation LOU
Charles Scribner's Sons, pub
fishers.
Terman's 1.-THE Hygiene Of the
School Child ---------2.25
Houehton Mifflin Company
publishers.
Hughes's Teaching to Read" 80
The A. S. Barnes Company,
publishers.
Woofter's Teaching in Rural /
Schools" ---------------l.95I
Houghton Mifflin Company
publishers.
Wilson and Hoke's "How to
Measure
The Macmillan Company, pub
fishers.
Thomas's 1.-THE Teaching OF
English in the Secondary
Schools"
Houghton Mifflin Company pub
lishers.
These books will be supplied to
sny teacher in the State by S. d.
Siler, $50 Canal Street, New Orleans,
Louisiana, at the above prices, post
age prepaid.
Under the regulations Of the State
Board Of Education, high school and
A1vt grade certificates, expiring jan
uary 1, 1926, and thereafter, will be
renewed for . period Of FIVE years
only through
(.) the application Of three Ger
tiAcates Of reading course credit
(b) the application Of three col
legs hour credits in professional
subjects earned in q state approved
normal school or college during .
regular session, . summer session or
in correspondence courses,
(c) or the application Of q COM
bination Of (a) and (h) that will
form the equivalent Of (a) and (b).
It il, therefore, urgently neces-
sary that the attention Of teachers
- directed to these regulations Of
the State Board Of Education 80
that when the time arrives for the
renewal Of their certificates they
win have complied with the regula-
lions Of the State Board Of Educa-
ton and will be able to have their
certificates renewed upon the rec
ommendation Of the superintendent
Of the parish in which they are en-
gagged in teaching.
To earn . certificate Of reading
course credit, teachers will be re-
CURED to submit papers upon two
books of the teachers' ! reading
eourve that will evidence the fact
that they have read these books in
tsIngently. Two opportunities during
the approaching session will be given
IL teachers Of the State to submit
answers to the questions propsunded
By this department upon the books
Of the teachers' reading course, one
at the time Of the April examina-
ton for teachers' certificates and the
other at the close Of the summer
normal schools during the summer
Of 1922.
~Social Principles Of Education
n IN excellent treatise on the prin'
eiples Of education as applied to the
individual and society and will amply
repay the teacher for its reading in
. broader and clearer conception Of
the means that education employs
n making use Of the powers and
capacities Of the individual in pre-
pairing for his place in the socia
whole. This is . book that should
b read by all teachers.
1.-THE Hygiene Of the School Child
yEsssnts in IN interesting and author
itative way the fundamental facts
ef . ehild's physical development
and other information concerning
the health and physical welfare Of
children that cannot but prove slim
ulating and Of incalculable value
not only to the teachers in theil
relations with the children but als'
% the teachers themselves.
Teaching to Read" contains tn
essential principles and methods O
teaching children to extract though
from the printed page, presented il
IN attractive and forceful manner
b. an educational expert Of ripe ex
perienee, mature judgment, ant
sound educational practice.
Teaching in Rural Schools" is
book, q the title indicates, that at
tsmpts to offer to the teachers o
rural schools the best thought an
practice combined in rural-life and ru
zal seAeel problems and should prov
extremely interesting and valuable