The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-02
SUPERVISED PLAN
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At HIGH SCHOOL
Recitation and instruction Dur
ing Same Period
YEAR WILL OPEN TUESDAY
Mrs. James I. Sleeper Succeeds
Miss Kline as Supervisor
in Music

All SCHOOLS In the Bennington Grad
ed School district will reopen Tor the
new school year next Tuesday, the
day after Labor day.
No changes have been made In the
school buildings but good bit OF
cleaning, painting and Frightening
up has been done. At the graded
school, the assembly hall on the third
floor and six class rooms have been
redecorated. New tubes have been
put in the Simmons boilers. Various
minor repairs have been made. Ap.
pearances outside the building indi.
cate that in time there will be new
concrete walks. Just at present, the
best that can be said is that their
last condition is worse than their
first. New pupils desks are on the
way from the factory for rooms nine
and ten.
At the high school, the school board
Office and the outside entry have
been repainted. This. was made
necessary by the habit, which has de
yeloped among smokers at dances
for which the hall is rented, OF
scratching matches on the walls.
At the Cora b. Whitney school. the
corridors and one class room have
been redecorated and new sinks
have replaced two which had passed
their usefulness.
, II the present program OF the build.
ing committee is continued, IL ap-
pears that all the school buildings
will be in first-class condition inside
and out in two more years. II will
be longer than that before all our
pupils will be provided with modern
seats adjusted to the size of the us
er and provided with tops smooth
enough to write on.
The high school Will 80 on new
basis which will provide for super
yised study as well as recitation dur
ing each class period The day will
be divided into a general assembly
period and SIX class periods OF fifty.
FIVE m nutes each instead OF seven
periods OF forty minutes each. About
half of each period will be devoted
to the usual form of recitation, and
the balance to study of the same
subject under the guidance OF the
teacher who will thus have oppor.
tunity to give the right sort OF help
where it is most needed. This will
reduce the amount OF home study
that will be necessary, but it will not
altogether do away with 1t.
The new plan makes one additional
teacher necessary, although the
steady growth of the high school
might have had the same effect. The
new teachers will be Miss Esther l..
Ham, a graduate of Smith College,
who has had three years experience
as high school teacher in New York
and New Jersey.
The music supervisorship. former.
ly held by Miss Bessie Kinne, will be
filled by Mrs, James r. Sleeper. She
is graduate of the normal depart.
ment of the Boston Conservatory OF
Music, and has since taken various
forms OF supplementary training for
the teaching of music in schools.
She has taught music in the public
schools of Chelsea, Mass, in Beloit
college, Wis, and in the public
schools of Passaic. ~ J. The past
summer, she was an instructor In the
American Institute of Normal Meth.
DDS, Auburndale, Mass. This is
summer school for school music
teachers.
Mr. Sleeper is also a music teach.
er and will teach in Albany High
school Mr.. and Mrs. Sleeper expect
to keep house in Bennington.
With the two exceptions noted the
teaching force will remain the same
as last year.
= As far as possible all supplies and
new books needed for the new year
have been bought during the summer.
MANY of the teachers have attended
summer school so as to get out Of
the rut and keep up to date. For
many folks in the school business,
the summer season is by no means
the period of freedom that 1t some
times appears.