Show TEACHERS INSTITUTE An Interesting Address on Seat Work by Miss Holton The teachers of Salt Lake county met at the university building on Saturday Superintendent D R Allen presiding Miss Holton the lady supervisor of the city schools was introduced and made an interesting address on seat work for public pub-lic school pupils Threefourths of the work done in the school room she thought should be seat work A few 1 1 years ago the only work of this kind done was memorizing from books and the great change which had taken place of late was due to change of method in teaching I teach-ing Seat work was of more importance to the pupil than class work ana to obtain ob-tain the best results from it seat work should lead toward making pupils independent inde-pendent workers and thinkers The lady then explained at some detail the kinds of seat work done and the best methods to be employed by teachers and concluded by exhibiting work done by pupils in the city schools The pupils of district No 24 conducted by their teacher Miss Bernim then sang two motion songs Prof W M Stewart gave an interesting interest-ing lecture on the subject of sensibilities used in educating the child A vote of thanks was tendered to the speakers and Messrs Van Cott Howells and Aston and Misses Dean and Anderson Ander-son were appointed a committee to prepare pre-pare a calendar for beginning and closing school The institute then adjourned for two weeks |