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WINTER "SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS.
Work in connection with the special
course of instruction for 130 country provisional
teaehers is in full swing at the Observation
and Practising School. Currie
street. Altogether about 200 applied for
leave to attend, and those chosen were
generally teachers in faraway districts, who
had not had an opportunity to follow a
somewhat similar course last year. Tile
subjects to which attention is given include
literature, the theory and method of teaching.
modelling, and geometry, singing, drill,
civics, and Nature study. The Director
of Education attends in order to give the
teachers advice on the subject of instructing
their classes, and he also deals with
literature. The head master of the Observation
School (Mr. .1. Fair-weather) takes
singing and drill; Mr. U. S. Roach, civics
and history: ^r. A. ft. Edquist. Nature
study and geography: Mr. Craig, modelling
in clay and solid geometry; Mr. B. J.
Gates, plain geometry; and Mr. 0. C.
Noack (advisory teacher), arithmetic.
About 90 per cent, of those attending the
winter school are lady teachers. Mr. Fairweather
paid a tribute to the 130 on Wednesday.
'They are,"' he remarked, "a
keen, anxious Ixidy of people, many of
whom have- conic l-o Adelaide from great
distances. As a whole, they have had few
such educational opportunities as tliis. and
appreciate the Director's efforts to do what
he can to further them in their- studies,
while at the same time they have facilities
of seeing how otlier teachers manage their
classes and conduct lessons. , Although
such a large number of visiting teachers
must necessarily disturb to some extent
the evenness of the school's work, still the
regular teachers are quite prepared to put
up with any sncb inconvenience so that
the provisional teachers may come into
touch with a -school where the latest methods
of primary teaching are in operation.
The change of scholastic atmosphere and
the broader-outlook which they can harrHy
fail to gain must prove greatly beneficial
to the teachers, who undergo this course
of training, and in their everyday work it
will be of great assistance to them." For
to-night a visit to the Fire Brigade Station
has been arranged.
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