Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-11-19 | Page 19 | Teachers Told How to Read

TEACHERS TOLD I HOW JO READ Importance of Visualizing Printed Thought Stressed at County Institute. l The third Weber county school Jn- J, stliule for tortrhers was held yester day at lite Centra junior high school beginning at in a rn. sharp and ending end-ing at 12 15 p. rn. Miss Zlna Skccn of tho Plain City school played a piano solo anil Will O'Byraa, formerly head of the !- ',' parlnitnt Of oral expression at the 0den school gave a brlel tallc on the subject of "Getting the Thought From the Printed rase," Superintendent B. A. Fowler then mado the announcements and delivered de-livered tho Instructions. The depart-mer.ts depart-mer.ts then separated for departmental depart-mental work. VISUALIZE THOUGHTS. In hiM blief talk Mr. u'Byrno sought to show Hie Importance of cultivating amcng students the ability abil-ity to visualize In their minds the thought the wished t express He explained how th Phoenicians, in -enters of the alphabet for writing writ-ing in contradistinction to the uniform uni-form writing of the Egyptians, used crude pictures of common objects to form tho letters of tho alphabet. alpha-bet. Vory few persons, he said, thought In the abstract, the preater majority major-ity thinking in tho concrete, seeing. ' ' he said mental pictures more or J lss distinct of the things of which they were speaking. He explained how a simple sentence sen-tence of five words might express a number of different thoughts illustrating il-lustrating the point he made by a sentence. In touching upon the rendition of the thought orally, he said, that If the picture produced, in the mind by words was studied, that in itself it-self would evoke tho correct emotion emo-tion and thought in the speaker, which In turn would produce the correct color nn'l inflection in a natural nat-ural manner and according to definite defi-nite psychological laws. HOUND T-VBLK TALK. Under the supervision of Primary Supervisor Nellie Hendricks tho prl-;xnary prl-;xnary grades and "tho intermediate grades met and the demonstrations were followed by a round-table talk of the problems Supervisor Albert J. Powell discussed dis-cussed music plans and how to teach music in the puhilc schools. The work in physical education was conducted by Mina M. Berlin who also submitted plans for the winter games. Demonstrations n the production of holiday posters wer made and Thelma Stephens submitted plans on art work with expositions and notes. Principal Willis Savage of the Eden schools discussed the value of silent reading and Principal H. A MacfarJane discussed the problem of how to interest and control unrully boys. A round-table discussion follow- 1 ed. i