WOMEN TEACHERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 92, 13 January 1919, Page 2

WOMEN TEACHERS

' A' committed appointed; .by the Eng? lisli Board of. Education in June, 1917, amongst other things, says the '.'Journal of Education," that class teachers whose posts involve wider responsibilities than those of tho majority of class teachers (s\icli as first assistants or, in mixed schools, chief wolrien assistants' with, special responsibilities for. girls)' should receive some addition t& tho scalo salary. This recommendation certainly 'implies" the apr pointment of a-woman assistant with special duties. .At the recdnt meeting in Wellihgton'-'of' tlio/'WIT. A. of New •Zealand one ,of the matte'rs: bfought up for! consideration was. that, an experienced woman teacher should have —in all schools, of grade six and'upwards— a .position ana status in the upper department with special responsibilities in regard to girls. ■< It was pointed out by the president;, Miss Chaplin, that teaching in health and kindred subjects should begin in Standard in the form of. ."talks,V and that that -period until theond of. the'school course this instruction should be. given by a woman. -That this--, toacher should have.charge of a senior class'■ of girls, with facilities for spending at least one-hour-a. week with the girls of the other classesj • should . have control, of girls in playground, and should thus stand in the position, as it'were, of a "school mother," giving to girls guidanco and advice - in personal matters- at a time when they need it most;. Of course, ,iu most of our schools the, women teachers do this now as far as they can ; .but it niust-. of .necessity bo in a moro or less spasmodic manner, owing to the fact that clasps are so large, .and that practically overy school teacher is kept fully- occupied in doing the work required by the syllabus. The pity is that apparently, this business of .what one,might term' 'character forming" is frequently very spasmodic also in the home. Many of theso girls go' straight from school to positions of various kinds ; it is therefore very important that the, greatest possible aniount of teaching of the right kind should be given , them in their® school life. . In America, women .have .won for. themselves ,a great deal more freedom in educationaL matters than they have. here,. '' Indeed, as Miss Chaplin pointed out, there woman is . tho predominating infliieiico. And sjirely in the matter of tho eduj cation of girls this should be so everyI where.

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