| Show the public schools of odan continue to grow in excellence andin numbers there are enrolled pupils the teaching force numbers at midyear it i expected that the enrollment will of this number boino will be in attendance at the eiph this institution is growing faster than alie board of education can supply i oom for it throe rooms were nd fled this year but it will be a question A to do with the inui is nt midyear mid year alere abc twelve teachers in the high d alone and moie nrc needed alio board of education aims to build enough M cah year to taace of the increase the economy to f but it requires abajo to do so gehi dually bouc bv one have the ainali been done awny te until at ic bitne every housed in a mel and well all has taken ticie and the school today in lit improved condition arc better than bey ever were besides pr ovidii room for uio regular annual ini of pupils the board i nc reals ago tho high school or the ronica of adama and 2 ali for it was paid for on IP in ilau lount plan the last payment imrij been made bouic months affo alu deeds to this property paid to be twice the amount paid abc now in the possession of the board by careful thia property hits acen paid for out of the regular buildings buil dins and li eides ing up the gramin nr i it been a hard binder but alir la pj eri have not been aked for one cent extra tue board fecla relieved and their attention can now be directed on dh caro ing waya and means by the high school building may be enlarged the school nt a cost of S wag changed from n four to an eight room building this ifan fea ij now one of the best and moat V the city by remodeling the interior of alie high school three more rooms were added tins year additional room which will hold 3 0 arc only ono summers work every year building to hia extent ts necessary alio condition of nearly every building in the city hai ben upon ot into years drw and modern hao taken tha at old aad lew means of no is ag carefully protected jn thi direction as the building 1 belofi Be loWi 8 brief statement of alic re j apt and for ahr list year ending anne wi i rea on liand july 1 kl 1 district tax lul t tak from tax salo as 1 state chool thool tax IS school lind abid rental fund G county school tax 1001 tuition 1000 miscellaneous receipt bale of old furniture cle 1 50 total rt teachers salaries salaries general supplies fuel rent expense buildings and improvements Prin lins 32 dilaria si laria total for maintenance of schools and building sites gigli five points euial bonda and 78 2708 cash on hand june 1902 total with lucli nien ns judge dec in charge of the finances dr as chairman of ilie mr awil liagin at the head of lie buildings buil dingi and grounds committee mr islaub chairman been changed to a half year system of promotion alio pupils in a room arc divided into two classes classes may be months apart in their work or they may bo together at the beginning of the year tho brighter ones in a I 1 few weeks will show ability to outstrip slower classmates at alic end of six weeks tho teacher hilda it to advantage to rearrange alio classes and give the brighter children the opportunity to advance as rapidly as their natures demand and at the same time ac cord a like privilege to alie slower onea tharo classes will gradually drift apart the children of slower development arc ahm accorded more time to cover a ghen amount of work anu arc not dragged rapidly over the year s work end than assigned at alic end of llie apar to go over alie same ground again while promotions anro twice a year it mcain eliat classed anro rearranged this often and much n alie lower grades an interval of even liala a year between classes is too long for primary and lower grades gradually the tine between classes in these grades will IMS diminished classes enter alie high school twice a year within alie last year a splendid impetus lias been given to art teaching not only in drawing alone but in tho study of the life and works of some of alic great artists themselves work has been done the ion of miss ida M of tho new york school of art marked changes in the teaching of alic grammar school subjects ly and quietly taking place in this city alic new and modern text books will assist in this movement As an example CT lih THE PINGREE SCHOOL of alic on supplies and dr codoy in charge of all the sanitary measures connected with alio schools the affairs connected with atis of cabot go very fat wrong tiie above in brief summarizes the financial affairs of alie schools as given in clerk Ro lapps allison was seen with regard to the changes in the course of eudy ef alio past year and what abd ibe or additions in his opinion would be 0 material benefit to tho welfare of he ogdan city schools below is liis answer the most important change in our department ws tlc alc exchange of alj and obsolete books for new and modem texts in nil subjects taught in tho alb lie schools so far tho new books me giving excellent satisfaction or the important in the successful management of i modern city Is the cussins aaion and promotion of pupils yet just how to do tin in order to alic best of the school as a whole as well as for tho individual child is an ever recurring problem bor so crul year past ayr warn mado on the year interval glnn tins has three distinct phases of study aro liy ing employed in the teaching phy viz field geography geography anil geographical tary reading this concrete field ana andua trial work he element of so essential to real education is introduced in pursuing these lines of observational work the value of the book la greatly increased ly alio fact knowledge gained in way may to bring it within the ability of the pw pils to interpret and its cn tents tho board of education at alic beginning of thia year employed miss aw a in our awn schools to super ise alio work in the primary grades under alio direction of the hupci intend cut and alic board so far die has beet remarkably successful her knon ledge of this work lias been gained a the best normal schools in the country teachers anre obtaining much from her children in the primary grades you know must bo kapl busy they are not permitted to get inep the preparation of this bruiy work is alie primary hardi est mork in alio beginners grades alii work is almost identical tio kindergarten der garten idea in fact beginning gracea in our schools are kindergarten schools in alic broadest sense vc have many teachers in grades graduates of kindergarten tho busy work of alie bolher primary grades runs along the industrial educational plan somo slow work is done wo are preparing jn a gradual way for the introduction of manual training in to every department of our tachooi system the question of funds for alo establishment of manual training at least in some of our departments is being worked out by the board of education and it is to bo hoped that before alic beginning of another school year the may be overcome many changes were made at the beginning year in alic curriculum of alio high school it Is broader arrangements range ments inny be made under alic now regulations for alio admission of hupila desiring to pursue almost any line ot pra work alic rule mado by many larger cities that all teachers in high schools mint be college graduates is in effect here the chool is under uio able management of mr wilson euins Ju ins the alie allol 1101 in efficiency until to allay it is known as one of tho best pie schools in tho west when annual training in added to its curriculum w anav well feel a just pride in lucli a well balanced and splendidly equipped school the most important improvement in alio high school year is alic increased and better equipped laboratories there is no doubt that there arc unsolved educational problems in abundance and eliat we anre with the darkness of ignorance on many questions but wo are all trying to know what is transpiring in the field of I 1 gogich to discern the trend in i dional to discriminate between the false and true anc sound and alio unsound following are the teachers of the respective spec tive schools for th year 1902 03 HIGH school albert E wilson principal mathematics W C crandall science 0 J stilwell branches emilie german A fartha latin and french AI elizabeth wyant englich Eng liah alnie 11 rogora Rog cra and typewriting J N freeman mathematics W F hanling history and civics alice english J E thompson mathematics GRAT SCHOOL william N principal clara lbrown emma keilson Xe ilson may hartog etta C gost M june pierce airs mucy starlin jfoss AI lone carroll Otla clara boreman gertrude white dna katherinc It igginbotham D II 11 adams gripo pora show mauda SL Jew iii axi E Milc liell belizi lynch 11 josephine mrs E linnic adams G mcgonagle lame li ittlefield alice mauiro rc sirs W II 11 acal bertha lessenger alottio 11 MOUND FORT alho OL R y aines olla barker waltera karr may alume mrs hattie li wade M pearl richards nellie bennett ailtie richards rac K woodcock clara eldradge peurl barrick Barr iok acl lia Tyer CENTRAL SCHOOL F R christenson cn principal mrs josephine hirst kate L anna hanson verna M miattio c COIA ella 0 bollard SCHOOL joel J harris principal bertha M stone arn L Cali ill mn grace C Koc nier conroy florence mil ler elsina butts alice K washington SCHOOL J M bishop principal carrie V knapp L li irwin linnic L reed ilo sio l lorance Croin aha garff mrs 11 christansen etta hutts genet LEWIS SCHOOL mm ando IS principal li adjo stink y lillian dingi cc billic ii guare lulu it llull SCHOOL efflin W wintle principal emily brown lily cainan airs louico sr orton aarn A bessie al INCY SC mrs marian T hufton principal marcia awis electo daisy andrews mriln carcy corcy STREET SCHOOL ciura kirkpatrick principal meda SCHOOL nila C 1 principal loia E daisy L stone clara paterson Pc terson V mao Bl lOOMS BENCH SCHOOL gustavus Gusta vua A horn WEST SCHOOL john A huuk SCHOOL s airs kate vandyke M supervisor of primary methods ida arac savage supervisor ot draw ing THE NEW METHOD OF TEACHING revolution THAT HAS COME IN IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OGDEN children taught to read before they know the alphabet to write with out copy boosts to cipher without inthe multiplication table surprising results r birtt now a new question is i agitating the mindi of the parents and punard iani of tho rising tn up to date ti mo children ae asis ns well grounded aiji the three R s e tho youngsters of bornn r coming aa it doo along ith that other energetically discussed arthe youth of this country iloff ac in injured ly too it i cs act friy intorf stin hat arc dicen dic ln ans the n of www changes in educational I 1 9 a in alio llio last in the last six yearn proved by alio system of tene hinK biow in vogue in alio ogan public A good mahy people leavo jint to fand aliis out ando diaco vcr eliut alic alphabet is no longer the birst task to alio public school pupil they leavo alint alio pupil i taught lo 10 rend ony before lie knows liis ifa larr ions before bo lias learner tu f pall they fonald too that alic anulli table do bafas it to memory goes is practically unknown anions alio uninformed naturally a which uses methods go is looked upon with the new method develops alio milid more quickly than tio aldand developing the igind to be alic first consideration novad nys in every nl theory opinion alio n huldg not in su satis taid 1 equal pcr alic litter fla y of a epurs leini on to use ilia byca antl do hix own instead jbf having liis cr do it for ahu alie idea before flier woid woi d 1 ii tho first and most important axiom in and bothin cululi letter illustrate that axiom biln public ey steni here for intaj opens alio door of a class room arc loyb iio iegan to grapple 10 lo tarco ils last september alicy have been at work only about 1 nino creeks ayt now they arc and Ot liling and up to 10 T san lenient ara alie anoro 1 sivo because of ali tt aty evident fads eliat the boag all of whom were between five and bix years old were many of them born of foreign none it waft fair to presume had had or would any assistance whatever along flip palli of learning when at home in fact the public school THE MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOL if not with alarm indeed outside of the teachers themselves it is hard to find any one mho lias more than the vaguest idea of what the newer methods of teaching mean or how it comes to pays that beginners in alio public school turn all old ideas of education upside don by starting in to read before they understand that A stands at the head of alie alphabet and Z at the foot the new system is still so new that the people saho object to its methods are not flone those ft ho arc not versed in scientific pedagogy some teachers also oppose it the majority of the disaffected teachers it is said represent private schools which of course arc not required to follow ariy uniform method probably in no two of them is exactly the earic method followed harcas in the public in ogden lie system of now ui use is identical and the believers in this system point to the fact that it a made up of alie best and most practical discoveries and theories advanced far many years by noted educators of different nationals tie tiei i 0 o particular nanne it seems is given to aliis system aa to its cui cacy a public school teacher af long experience had this to say 4 particularly in its elementary work stoics aliis point that it is equally successful with nil grades of children vuth alio offspring bof ignorant parents as well as with alio children of educated the recognition of words is the firpi problem presented to a child who enters nn ogden public school and for the first three or four months alic blackboard is his only primer in oilier words alio to aching is entirely objective to illustrate the teacher at the outset holds up a wooden horse dog cat sheep bird dish bit of furniture any familiar article in short bof recognition and says perhaps alio least idea what the name oi the lattey was he did know that it was used in both words and the top of ano s was more rounded than that of the other is given asari the thoroughness drill r the farst temporary primary term ends in about sixty days and before that time the children get a reader which they read surprisingly well simply by recognizing the words and not because any child has been taught his letters or how to spell some of them f too have to copy on the blace t af board tic words written there from s timo c alic initial ia alio child abc once into addition and sub from a finnall bundle of int he selects one and places it b foro jim on the desk then places nn feih cr beside it and leams that one and oni make two and that taking one away from two leaves one at the next acs 1 I ibave a horse thyi handing the animal lo 10 ony of her pupils she bays j you have a horse i this she does several tunes the chil dren repeating the sentences after cef then slip writes them on the baird after they arc written badr moril is with a pointer as it ia pronounced by the teacher and class in concert alio word dorsc lor sc is dext pointe to and HIO children chil drin alio si identify by biati are asked to a liand of elioso who ia to answer i tiie terill goes on with other worda in the lead and M a variety of wnm at children are kap and interested floii to in jail sentences arc added each con say alic word lionso li orso and lie fore ali end of alio lesson there is not a child present alio would fall to no eliat one word at least if it tia in one of five years quickly pointed out lo 10 hiis somewhat abashed teacher the day that she lad drawn the s in horse in a particular sentence differently from the s in the bame word kiich occurred in another fian tanco the two words as it were written directly ono above the oth cr and although the small critic son three ticks come into piny meanwhile the teacher tho numerals on tho blackboard and the proper and plus signs to match tho example glicr pupils have before them nd lur lu r pictures are soon firmly |
