Show county teachers association tina association convened at the central schoolhouse saturday feb at 11 am after the customary opening exercises the minutes of tho pre yiota meeting were end and ao cepter prof T B lewis then delivered a roost instructive address an the correct method of teaching apithi the text books should 4 be r carded classes and the four principles combined and taught at the same time by means of objects mental development should be tho principal aim in this as wall as in all numbers should bo presented first not figures and high orders of figures which mean nothing to the child should not be given for should be practical and not beyond abo grasp af pf tho pupils kules should be made by the pupils themselves as they proceed the custom in some schools of allowing tho pupils to work examples mechanically simply to obtain the answers given in the book should be strongly condemned the speaker that the textbooks text books now iu use contained bauch impractical matter and believed the time would come when not a single rula or ex plana turn would be found in the arith fetics the long aroutine of analysis which h carried to an extreme by some tea cherr ho thought to be abasto of tinier for the qu ickey the result id obtained the better if the ia understood support of thia theory an excellent article was read from fraucis W parkers talks on teaching following thia C S booth related in a very interesting manner some of his experiences on the island of st helena miss vincy R stone answered the question how do you treat indolence iu school the lady believed there would be few indolent pupils where the studies were made interesting prof lewis and irvin T alvord each made remarks upon subject the latter thought that much indolence was due to the fact that in the majority of our fach the pupils were crowded of their capabilities and some pupils were certain hind get discouraged loso interest and consequently become indolent A child becomes indolent when he can not grasp the ideas taught him the geography of central america was well treated aby WH crandall of pleasant view at the request of bupt supt andersen sir D L dean reported h scho olat north ogden during the winter he had an enrollment of 82 in his and the school was altogether in a prosperous condition ohp surf rounding circumstances questions on various school topics wre then discussed in a lively manner teachers and trustees the practice chale teachers for two or three doutha during the winter turning them adrift and hiring a lady teacher at i reduced salary was severely criticized criticised no person will succeed as a teacher who does not make teaching a continued probes it was suggested that the teachers form a union nud adopt as one of the leading resolutions that no teacher engage to teach for a shorter period than a year where a district is able it iii certainly to its interests financially and otherwise as well as to the good of the teach era to engage a teacher for at least one year a time tho teachers themselves without an organized union might unite ou thia matter and refuse to teach for a shorter time than a year in districts where school ii in session alio year round thare were representatives froia ogden north ogden uintah pleasantview Pleasant View mound fort east hooper taylors band wilce plain city wilsbur mar and trustees from all he present after ginging by the choir pray cr was by trustee joseph stanford and meeting adjourned until saturday march JJ HALL leoy |