Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-27
RURAL SCHOOL
/. PROGRAM FOR
|. YEAR OUTLINED

Three main objectives will be
stressed this year in the program
for the rural elementary schools,
these detectives being discussed by
Miss Helen S. Thomas, new instruc.
ton supervisor, at yesterday meet.
ing of the rural school teachers held
in the Wilson school.
The first objective, as outlined by
Roger NJ. v. Walton, attendance
supervisor, is the installation of the
system of permanent record cards
which will be kept in conjunction
with the county health department
and kept on file at the court house.
In this way a permanent record
will be kept of the scholastic and
health records OF each child who Ell
tiers the county schools and will
prove invaluable in case Of trans
fers from one school to another,
preventing much duplication OF
work
The second objective as explained
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plan for social studies which is
adopted for the purpose of avoiding
the many recitations held in small
schools where several grades are
combined in one room.
Subject matter will be unified and
presented to several grades at the
same period.
This year the seventh and eighth
grades of the county will follow the
eighth grade subject as outlined in
the course, the fifth and sixth will
take up the sixth grade work, etc.
The third objective is the new
state course of study adopted at the
last meeting Of the county board OF
education, the state course in oral
and written English.
Manuals were presented the group
and Miss Thomas mentioned speci-
fic topics which are to be stressed
during the year.
Favors Middle Course
In conclusion Miss Thomas ex.
planned the states two-way program
of instruction in which the social
subjects are taught in large groups
and the skill subjects in smaller
groups, each child being permitted
TO go as fast as he is able.
She stressed the fact that she be-
lieved modern education lies half
way between the cid fashioned for
malisn and the extreme Individual
ism, which have characterized var
ious periods of education.
Principles of good program plan
ming were discussed also by Miss
Thomas who gave six; the necessity
for spicy opening program; per
icds long enough to complete one
subject; necessity for unitying the
room every hour, drawing the group
into a whole; the necessity for con
tacting every grade every hour; ar
ranging an eternal variety of sub
jects, and the last, the necessity OF
obeying the law.
This necessity for adherance TO
the regulations of school law was
stressed by c. 3. Collins, county sup
erintendent Of schools, who presided
at the meeting and welcomed the
teachers.
Collins introduced Walton who ex-
planned the permanent record cards
and gave each school in turn its
supply. Miss Thomas was then in
troduced by the superintendent, and
pricr to giving her instruction paid
tribute to the splendid work done
by the late Grace Ferrell, former in.
struction supervisor, and the teach
ers Of the county schools.
The gathering ended with few
brief explanations by Supt. Collins
relative to the report cards, the
problem Of children living in one
district and attending school in an
other, these subjects having been
already mentioned in The Press.