Evening star., 1927-09-22
FAIRFAX TEACHERS
! TO MEET Z DAYS
Wide Range of Subjects
Scheduled for County In
Stitute Sessions.

Special DlSp5tch to IhF star.
FAIRFAX, Va, September 22.-The
annual teachers institute for Fairfax
County will be held tomorrow and
Saturday in the Fairfax School. To
morrow's program will be opened at
10 am with Bible lesson. prayer
and song led by Rev. William Mar.
shall of Fairfax. NJ. y. Hall, division
superintendent will preside. There
will be Commute address by rep
reSontativc from the State Department
of Education ut Richmond. following
which all teachers will be divided into
three groups for group discussions in
separate ClassroomS.
The primary group grades ! to 4
inclusive will be in charge of Miss
Josephine Howard. the recently ap-
pointed supervisor of one and two
room schools. This program includes
methods for primary reading, discus
sion led hy Mrs. Teates of Burke and
Miss Groh of F'loris: methods for pri-
mary spelling. led by Miss Read of
Vienna and Miss Frances hewitt of
Potters Hill; methods for primary
number work, Miss Milstead of Potters
Hill and Mrs. Wilcox of Vienna. The
daily program for 4l0-minute day
will be participated in by the entire
group. Miss Howard will speak on
"HOw to Keep the Children Of These
Grades Interested in Their Work"
Grammar Grade Group.
The grammar grade group. grade.
3 to {. inclusive, will be in charge e
w. 7. WOodson. Methods in grammar
grade spelling will he discussed ny
Miss Delsie Hit of Clifton and Miss
Adrian of Oakton. Reading. Miss
Tavenner of Lee-JacksOn and Miss
IIibbs of Oakton. Writing, Miss Fer |
guson of Vienna and Miss Ethel Hit
Of Oakton. Arithmetic. Miss Nellie |
hewitt of Petters Hill and c. f.
Robbins of Jefferson. Grammar +,
Mrs. Clement of Fort Humphreys and |
Miss Barksdale of Falls Church |
Geography, Miss Tomko of Mclean !
tory, Miss Sallie Sims of Lee Jackson I
and Mr.. Nichols of Popes Head. |
Gives. Miss Shepherd of Potters Hill |
and Mrs. Edward Arnold Of Mclean |
Hygiene, Miss Avis Harlowe of |
Baileys Cross Roads and Miss Simp- i
son Of Annandale. Physical inspec. |
ton and physical training, Glenn |
Cunningham of Fairfax The general |
discussion of the daily program for |
grammar grades will be open to all |
members of the group.
The high school group will be in |
charge of Miss NJ. NJ. Snead, principal |
at Mclean, and will include discus |
sions on English. including technical |
grammar, by Miss Hobbs, principal at |
Falls Church, and Mr.. Summers, prin- !
cipal of the Clifton High School; his |
tory, Miss Elizabeth Matthew of Nc. |
Lean, and Mr.. Quintrell of Forest. !
vile; mathematics, including business |
arithmetic. Miss Donaldson of Lee. |
jackson and Miss Cuatt of Lee-Jack- |
son. science, Fred Cunningham of |
Oakton and Miss Driver of Clifton:
Foreign languages. Miss Burke of |
Clifton and Miss Walker of Lee-Jack. |
son; high school athletics, Messrs. |
Summers. Cunningham and Quintrell;
The daily program. address by DR.. |
Sidney Hall of Richmond. supervisor
the secondary education for Virginia. !
: Rural School Athletics.
! At 1870 Friday, Mr. Kaufman. the
Mistrlct supervisor of physical educa-
zion, will explain the recently inaugu. |
rated plan of centralized guidance of |
rural school athletics The group |
discussions viii be resumed in the |
afternoon.
saturdays program will be opened |
BY Bible lesson and PRAYER by the
Rev. A. II. Shumate of Mclean and
Chesterbrook. the new principal at
Chesterbrook School. DR.. William p.
Eaton, school physician, will speak on
health work in county schools. Miss
Mary Lippard, county home demon
stration agent, will speak on home
demonstration work in relation to the
schools. Miss Holmes will speak on
Junior League work and c. c. Carr of
Herndon, president Of the School
LeagLos of Fairfax County, will ex-
plain the work of the Senior Leagues.
Saturday afternoons session will in
clude an explanation of the teachers
clerical duties, Virginia Journal of Ed
ucation, plans for a county spelling
and number contest, County Teachers
Association and group meetings for
the teachers of each of the six magis-
terial districts
Lunch will be served visiting teach
ers by the faculty Of the Fairfax
School. On Friday evening the Fair
fax Psrent-Teacher Association has
planned a reception for the local facul-
ty at the home of the president, Mrs. /
4. L. Kincheloe. Mrs. J. f. Nickel. |
Mrs. F. d. Richardson and Mrs. F. s. |
McCandlish have been appointed a |
committee to arrange for program and |
refreshments.