SCHOOL IMSPECTORS' CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4641, 7 February 1894, Page 3

SCHOOL IMSPECTORS' CONFERENCE.

The conference sat throughout yesterday, and transacted the following business:— AMBULANCE WOBK. A resolution was passed to the effect that it is desirable that some knowledge of ambulance work, and the method of restoring the apparently drowned, should,'if possible, be taught with Boience and object lessons in the primary sohools. STANDARD EXAMINATIONS. It was decided that 'lildren who fail to pass a standard /d who hare made less than 250 attendances in the year be excepted. SCHOOL LIBRARIES. The conference strongly recommended the establish uient in all sohools of school libraries of books interesting to children, as a means of fostering a [taste for reading."' pjiISSIfiOATION Of TEACHERS. The following resolution was paq;ed: f That airahgements be made for revising the classification of teaghers on some Biioh basis as the following, vig.; That if for three years in auccessiop the local inspector assigns to a teacher lower marks for efficiency than bo lias before received, the Inspeotor-Gencral of Schools, or another inspector acting as his deputy shall sea the teacher's work and deoide whether bis marks are to be lowered or left unchanged, and if the mark; are lowered by the Inspector-General or his deputy, the teacher's classification shall be lowered." URAUUIR AND DRAWING. A detailed scheme of instruction in gramraer was recommended for the Minister's consideration. With respect to drawibg;llie" following recommendations were' adopted That the course of geometrical drawi'ng of Htatid'ard IV.' be'redupe'd, and ijidt in Standard VI. solid geometry be omittei}. " AJIITpiIETip. With respect to arithmetic it was deoided that the arithmetic of the higher classes bp reduced by limiting the treatment of compound practice, compound interest, discount, and stools to simple cases, and that simple cases of mensuration of solids be added to tbe course of instruction in Standard VI. GEOGRAPHY, It was resolved to recommend the Government to prepare for the use of public sohools the following maps and diagrams Map of New Zealand to illustrate tbe geography required (inder the standard illations {'large n'all maps of the North and South Islands of New Zealand; and pic- ' t'uies to illustrate'tbe native flora aricj fauna. ' BISTORT. i I( was resolved to recommend that i examination jb as a clas'g 8Blj» | ject'be history books to be "used only as supplementary read- | ing books, the language o| which, bow- | ever, will have to be explained by the teacher.

THE DECIMAL-6YBTEH. It was also resolved that the in- ' epeetors would welcome with great , pleasure any attempt on the part of the Legislature in the direction of . substituting a decimal system of money, weights and measures for the v present anomalous but time-honoured ' variety, wbicb unnecessarily ojmtraole thrpr'ogteßi of/ tbe children, -pließ tlie work of prdduflihg goOd qalodlfttion I pldMly tedion'o, atd ataM in '{he J jiisfruLion in other, difeotionfl, The conference will pibbabljr cloie n to-njorrow.—iftnwfl.