TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 272, 27 April 1915, Page 4

TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.

MEETING AT NEW PLYMOUTH. A general meeting of the Taraimki District Institute of Teachers was held at New Plymouth on Saturday afternoon in the hoard room of the Education Office. There was a good attendance of members, the president (Mr. 11. Stratford) presiding. THE DOMINION CONFERENCE. The following were appointed delegates to the New Zealand Conference at Wellington in July next:—Mrs. Dowling, Messrs. R. L. M'llroy, and J. Thomas It was decided to forward the following remits:— 1. That the Department he asked to institute a Dominion ■promotion scheme, 2. That S special grant be made by the Department to the hoards for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a teacher transferred from one position to another.

3. That a practical certificate be essential, as in the case of science, before a pass in school method he granted to a teacher.

Speaking on the second remit, the president remarked that the transfer system was not yet quite satisfactory. The expenses of a teacher transferred from one. position to another were not paid: thus a teacher transferred from a grade 3 school to a grade 4 lost, not' only his increase, hut also his expenses. He thought the remit if adapted, would meet the case.

Mrs. Dowling, in proposing the third remit, said that at present it was posr siblc for girls and boys intending to be teachers to obtain a pass in school methods for their D examination before they had ever done any teaching. This, she maintained, was quite wrong: it was essential that before being granted a pass in such an important tiling as school method the candidate should possess a practical knowledge of the sub. jeet. GENERAL. An address was given by Mr. G. Ellis, instructor under the Taranaki Education 'Board, on the subject of agriculture in schools. (The report will appear to-morrow.)

Mrs. Royd Garlick wrote, expressing her heartfelt thanks for the resolution passed by the institute tendering its deepest sympathy with her in the death of her husband.

The motion of revising the geography syllabus was referred to the executive, and teachers will be asked to send in suggestions.

Mrs. Dowling undertook to place the matter of the sewing syllabus before tlie Women Teachers' Association, and will submit details to the next meeting of the institute.