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Show Annual School Superin-I Superin-I fendents Convention Held V The annual national school superintendents super-intendents convention was held in Cleveland, Ohio, February 24th to 2Sth. The state of Utah was represented repre-sented by thirty two superintendents and educators. The convention was centered around health education, adult education, school financing, improvement of instruction, improving improv-ing teachers in service, better training train-ing for teachers at teacher training institutions and the reorganization of schools to Include kindergartens, elementary schools, Junion high schools, Senior high schools and the new movement of Junior colleges. One of the outstanding features of the convention was a demonstration in health and physical education. The primary function of the elementary school health education is the formation for-mation of healthful habits of living, directed by the classroom teacher. While the correction of physical defects de-fects and control of communicable disease is primarily the function of health service, the class room teacher teach-er can assist the doctor and nurse through her greater contact with the child. Specific instruction In funda- mental health knowledge has greater emphasis in the Junior high school. In the games and competition the intramural types are far more valuable valu-able to the group of students, the mass receiving the development rather rath-er than the few. The mast important function which the superintendent has is the selection selec-tion of teachers. It should be the object in this selection to obtain teachers with proper training, yet teachers with moral fibre, so that" their lives can be depended upon as examples for students to follow. In the financing of education the great tendencies are toward greater equalization of educational opportunities opportuni-ties by greater state aid, adjustment of tax burdens and greater efficiency in expenditure of school money. |