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Show SOME FAIL TO MAKE GOOD In an address delivered before one of the parents' classes of this city. Joel J. Harris, principal of the Grant school, outlined in a very interesting manner the policy in. vogue at present pres-ent in the public schools of Ogden regarding re-garding supervision. Mr. Harris stated stat-ed that the plan is succeeding well and by such close supervision It la impossible for a weak teacher to escape es-cape attention. There Is one supervisor appointed for each grade and It Is his duty to supervise that grade in all of the schools and to study tho same grade In school3 of other cities. He th is becomes a specialist in that particular grade and knows everything that h going on in that grade in all of the eehools. When a weak teacher 1 detected, the attention of both principal prin-cipal and supervisor Is conceutrate-d on that teacher and she must either improve or withdraw from the system, and in order that eery teacher may know how she Is succeeding, she is marked once each month by the principal, prin-cipal, being graded either A. D. C or D. This being done, each month allows al-lows her the opportunity to make better bet-ter grades If she has the capacity o do so. One copy of her grades will be given to her and another copy will be sent to Superintendent Mills At tho end of the year an average of these grades will bo made A teacher who has an average grade of A will be given the maximum advance ad-vance In salary; one who bas the average jrrado of B will have a small Increase in salarv ; one who is graded C will receive a still smaller increase and the one receiving the grade of D will be eliminated from the service. Thin makes for efficiency. Where a teacher is found to grade D right from tho beginning with no possible show" of Improvement, she may be asked to retire at once, this having been done on two or three occaVons. In addition to the regular grado supervisors, su-pervisors, there are also supervisors In special departments. There is a supervisor of art, one of music and a supervisor of sewing. These supervisors super-visors work in the special departments depart-ments where the average teacher is much less competent. Under the present system, everyone Is working hard for h's own welfare and for the welfare of hi associate teachers nnd the schools are thriving as a result. Tho grade supervisors are chosen from among the principals and once in two weeks each supervisor meets all of the teachers In the city In his special grade at the Suldllgh building to perfect plans for the following fol-lowing month. The policy of Supt. Mills, In tho organizing of tho school system, is that a person to be successful In school business, a in all other kinds of business, must first, organize, second sec-ond deputize, third supervise. |