Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-15
COMMUNITY AND TEACHER
Teacher Should be Moving Spirit
in Community, Says Speaker


Community and the Teacher" at the
annual Iron county teachers insti-
tute held at the Lincoln school on
Thursday and Friday of last week.
She should be doing things, or
ganizing clubs, promoting programs
and making herself one of the COM
munity, he said. These things are
appreciated on the part of patrons in
the community and the teacher who
is progressive like this will soon find
out that the people viii be just as
anxious to please her by increasing
her salary and making things more
pleasant in the school room.
Some teachers, Prof. Ames pointed
out, showed no interest at all in com
munity affairs-hence these are not
retained very long. If teacher does
not want to belong to the community
where she teaches, she has no bust
ness there. Look out, he said, for the
teacher who persists in going out with
high school boys, as the community
will not stand for this, and the sooner
she makes up her mind to be in accord
with the wishes of the community,
the better she will be, he declared.
Prof NJ. E. Hunt of the River Falls
normal school, who was also one of
the conductors at the institute, made
a strong plea for the socialized recita-
ton in one of his addresses to the
teachers.
"Socialized recitation" he declared,
lis the most important thing in school
for the benefit of the pupils. 1t is
work in which all pupils come in con-
tact with the teacher and the teacher
in contact with the pupils" Some edu-
Gators, he pointed out, were very radi-
cal in their views, and even advocated
the doing away with the class or reci-
tation period entirely. This, said Mr..
Hunt, will never happen, "for school
cannot be teaching institution with
out a recitation period"
Supt. ]. E. Murphy gave an inter
esting talk on "The Place of English
in Schools" He said in part:
Whenever students return from I'M
iversity, college or normal, they COM
plain that the English work is hard
and that the teachers in those insti-
tutions blame the high schools, the
lower grades and the foreign homes.
Improving the English in schools is
only in the experimental stage, and
the big problem is in carrying Eng
fish not only in English classes, but
in all daily activities and daily life
Good English is a habit and hence
must be instilled in the minds of the
pupils, not only in English classes,
but in all classes of the schools. To
accomplish this, cooperation is need
ed on the part of all teachers of diff
ferent subjects in the school,"
Roy Melvin of the physical train
ing department of the local schools,
gave splendid talk on physical ex-
ercises in the schools and demon
strated the exercises with a class of
girls. Another demonstration in
physical training work was given by
girls of the Iron Belt high school and
three boys from the primary grades
of that school.
Much credit is due to Miss Sara
Waters and her pupils in the fifth
grade at the Lincoln school for the
excellent construction work which
was on exhibit in her room during
the institute. On entering the room
the teachers saw on one side a minia-
ture ski scaffold which had been
made by one of the boys who attend
ed the recent ski tournament in Iron
wood. The miniature slide showed
a boy, dressed in bright sport
clothes, going down the slide. In
another corner was small structure
representing a red brick school
house. Other miniature buildings
We're shown and it was not difficult
for the teachers to recognize fami-
| liar buildings in Hurley, such as a
gas filling station with its free air
and two automobiles waiting for ser
vice; Cattoi's garage with its auto
mobiles; the Northwestern station
and water tank; a confectionery
store, with its bright colored fruits
and candies; the Burton hotel with
its fancy architecture, modern homes,
church with high steeple and last
but not least, small electric lights
depicting the white way on Silver
street.
During the two days institute the
teachers were entertained with piano
and vocal solos by Misses Endrezzi
and Urquhart and Mrs. w. B. Foster,
solo dance by Vida Doriot Of
Manitowish, a vocal solo by Sept. J.
f. Watson of Gogebic county, violin
solo by Clarence Persons and sing
ing by the high school glee club.