Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-26
PARENT.TEACHER
WORKERS MEET
Map Out Plans for Demon
STATIONS Throughout
State
TO CARRY OUT
STATE PROGRAM

Demonstration classes. where
teachers may observe the best prin-
ciples In teaching methods. have
long been familiar to Delaware
teachers; demonstration meetings in
which Parent Teacher workers may
observe programs planned to make
the best use Of the time at the
monthly meetings held IN school
houses. are the latest innovations of
the Delaware Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation. According TO the present
plan upon which educators in all
parts Of the State-teachers, super
visors. State Board and p. T. A. Of
ficials-are working. demonstration
meetings for both white and colored
will be held once every month in the
three counties. The associations in
the State have been divided into six
groups, and an invitation will come
once TO officials Of every association
TO attend one of the demonstration
meetings during the year.
The first in the series demonstrat-
ing the program suggested by the
state Association for the month Of
November. was held at Cedar Neck
School in Sussex county. last Fri
day evening. The same program
Will be repeated at Atlanta School.
No. rs. near Bridgevllle. tomorrow.
Everything in the evenings prog
ram is planned 10 emphasize the
subject for consideration: The
School-What Il Should do For the
Rural Child" There will be exhibits
of the work OF the children; the old
method and the new method Of
teaching reading will be contrasted
by DR.. Holloway OF the State De-
partment OF Education. and Miss
Agnes Snyder, OF the Women's COL
lege OF Delaware. Following the
demonstration lessons, a discussion
Of why the newer method is better
than the old, will be given by DR..
Florence z. Bamberger. OF Johns
Hopkins University The group OF
schools invited 10 the Atlanta meet
ing includes: Bridgeville. Cannon.
Trinity. Wesley, Progress and Meals
The program will be again repeated
for the benefit of all OF the teachers
Of New Castle county. and repre-
sentatives Of associations from III
adjoining school districts, at Clay !
mont in New Castle county, on No
vember 1st; and for the benefit OF [
I'll the teachers OF Kent county and /
The officials Of all the associations !
IN Kent county. at Caesar Rodney |
School, on Friday evening. Nov. 3.
The same program, developed by
people Of their own race, will be
given In colored school centers in |
zach county. The first OF these. /
held last evening in the new colored
s-1ool at Newark. attracted a repre-
tentative group OF teachers from all
parts Of the county. The demon
uration work and discussion OF the
topic was given by G. Smith Worm
ley of the Miner Normal School.
Washington. DC. The program will
be repeated tonight in the Milford
colored school. and tomorrow even
ing for the benefit of Sussex teach /
ers. in the new Laurel colored school
building.
Parent-Teacher or community or
carnations increased in Delaware |
last year at a rate which put the |
state in the first place~in the Union !
in this important phase OF educa-
tional work. 230 out OF 400 school
districts in the State. by June 1922.
reported themselves organized and
in working condition. To give them
a job worth doing, and 10 teach them
how to do IL. Immediately became
the working incentive OF the State