Show COUNTY TEACHERS An r Interesting and Well Attended At-tended Meeting Professor Angjabergs Ideas as to How Drawing Draw-ing Should Be Tar hti and Its Importance c The Salt Lake County Teachers institute met in tho university building yesterday After the usual opening preliminaries President D R Allen advised teachers and trustees to send in their orders for textbooks text-books to be exchanged to tho dealers before be-fore collecting the old books in order to 1 make the exchange as soon as possible It was decided that books already purchased pur-chased by trustees for supplementary reading read-ing might be used The Sea Side and Way Side series might be introduced in third grade Progressive exchange would be allowed readers Professor Augsberg was introduced who gave some very interesting remarks on teaching drawing He said drawing was divided into three divisions 1 Representative Repre-sentative or the ability to reproduce objects ob-jects This should be thoroughly taught the common schools to grades from one to eight 2 Tha constructive and 3 The decorative which should be taught in high schools in grades nine to twelve The university uni-versity or grades thirteen to sixteen should be taught Department work such as architecture painting sculpture engineering etc First GradeColor work used in numbers num-berS language and for busy work Second GradeParts I and II of elementary element-ary drawing simplified Third Gr dePart III of elementary drawing simplified Fourth GradePart IV of elementary drawing simplified Fifth GradePart I of drawing simplified simpli-fied Sixth GradePart II of drawing simplified simpli-fied Seventh GradePart III of drawing simplified Eighth Grade Part IV of drawing simplified The professor said first grade teachers required the greatest amount of knowledge knowl-edge in order to teach the subject successfully success-fully Teachers for their own study should begin with drawing simplified and use elementary drawing simplified from which to prepare lessons for school Pupils should not use a text book during the first year Any kind of paper would do The most important thing is to get the idea or thought Drawing should be taught at least once a day in such a way as to train te mind of the child the same as in any other study Draw before the class as the observing powers of tbe child are the strongest and the child also sees how it is done A teacher will be successful in teaching drawing in proportion propor-tion to his success in mastering the matter presented in the first nineteen pages of drawing simplified The idea that a person per-son cannot draw Is erroneous try to draw and persevere until you succeed Recommended Recom-mended short lossons for primary children longer lessons for pupils farther advanced In answer to the question How could color be taught best the professor stated that the color its shade and tint should bused b-used first Use colored paper Teach each of the primary colors in this way Drawing should be taught as muchas any other study as we use it much more than any other branch of learning Gave some excellent instruction on map drawing draw-ing as form work Evinced a willingness to aid any of the teachers if they would call upon him A voto of thanks was tendered ten-dered the gentleman Superintendent D R Allen stated that the school law provided 100 for the benefit ofthe institute Some discussion followed asto the best way of using this fund A motion was adopted that the institute employ em-ploy an instructor or instructors during the coming year details to be discussed at the next meeting Professor Allen stated that a flag should be in every school house Tho trustees should purchase one if possible The official programme for Columbus = t 4r y day was read and suggestions offered u to the observance of the day Advised the teachers to take some edu cational journal All should take the JTiUs r Mountain Educator as it Is a good home journal Meeting adjourned for tao weeks F W BLISS Secretary |