Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-26
INSTRUCTION MEETINGS
FOR PARENT-TEACHERS
Programs Planned to Make the
Best Use of Time at Monthly
Gatherings.

Demonstration classes, where teach
ers may obscfve the best principles
In teaching methods. have long been
familiar to Delaware teachers dem
onstration meetings in which Parent
Teacher workers may observe pro-
grams planned to make the best
use of the time at the monthly meet
ings held in school houses, arc the lat
est innovations of Delaware Parent
Teacher Association. According to the
present plan upon which educators
in all parts of the state are working,
demonstration meetings for both white
and colorcd will bo held once every
month in the three counties. Tho as-
sociations in the state have been
divided into six groups. and an In
vitation will come once 10 officials of
| every association to attend one OF
these demonstration meetings during
| the year.
! The first in the series demonstrating
! the program suggested by tho state
! Association for the month OF Novem-
Der. was held at Cedar Neck School In
Sussex County, last Friday evening.
The Same program will be repeated Mt
Atlanta School. No. 70. near Bridge
vile. tomorrow. Everything In the
evenings program Is planned to ON
nhasizc tho subject for consideration:
The School--What II Should DO for
the Rural Child" There will bc OK
hibits Of the work of tho children;
tho old method and the new method
Of teaching reading will be conuasted
by DIR. Holloway of tho state Depart
ment Of Education, and Miss Agnes
Snyder of the Women's College of
Delaware. Following the demOnstra
tion lessons n discussion of why the
newer method is better than tho old
will be given by DIR. Florence T.. Bam-
berger, Of Johns Hopkins UmveHlty
The group Of schools invited 10 the
Atlanta meeting includes: Bridgoville
Cannon. Trinity, Wesley. Progress ant
, Meals. The program Will he again re-
pcatcd for the benefit of all the teach
J crs of New Castle County, and repre-
sentatives Of associations from II ad
, ioining school districts. at Claymon
in New Castle County. on Novernbei
/: and for tho benefit Of all the teach
, crs Of Kent County and the othciRl
! of all the associations In Kent County
! at Caesar Rodney school. on Frida,
evening. November 3,
The Same program, developed To-
: people of their own race. will I've RiNc'
a I'm C0lored school Ceuters IN each Coun
". The first of these, held last even
Z ing in the new colored eChool at New
ark. attracted n representative grou
Of teachers from all parts Of the Coun
I ty. The demonstration work and dis
: cussion of the topic was given by {
a Smith Wormley of the Miner Schoo
! Washington, u. G. The program wi
= be repeated tonight in the Milford col
= ored school. and Friday evening &c
: benefit of Sussex teachers. In the mo-
= laurel colored achOOl building.
;, Parent Teacher or community oI
= ganizatiuus increased in Delaware las
year at n rate which put the state
!. the first place in the Union In th
= important phase OF educational wOrl
Two hundred and thirty out OF AZ
= school districts in the state, by Jun
= 1922. have reported themselves o'
gan!zed and In working condition. I
I give them a Job worth doing, and
teach them how 10 do it. immediate el
8 became the working incentive OF II
II state Association. The demonstrate
meetings which will be repeated ever
month between November and Apr
represent the plan adopted TO strength
en- the various individual association
other topics which will be discuss'
nj Subsequent meetings are: "Wh'
. the Church Should Contribute In
~ General Plan of Education; I'll
i home" tho Industries of the commui
- ity. and the recreational activities