New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1924, Page 2

Rl e T T Wedding Gifts That Are Distinctive _ _—————— e Gift Dept. THE Dickinsen |- o Drug Co. | i 169-171 Main St. : Change in High Believes Work Can Be Ad- justed to Abilities of Pupils and Recommends “Laboratory System.” Bartlett e n Boj- ¢ the Heart was ¢ meeting I yesterday ¢ stated eld in the 1k windows the g much vitally Ina offer the rought he included fore the Stanle report, the re and several g high school Due to the loran, chairman of absence accommo- report of that commit- taken up at a riday, Septem- Buttons Give a Smart Effcet to These FRENCH FLANNEL | FROCKS Emartly newest shad Saddle. The designs and blocks, and tively: bone buttons materials are a smart Fall. the bills chairman of orted which were reported i 1 been i to secure discount. The meet- pted the committee’s recom- dation 13 window basement the 1001 of the Hartford Worls $105. 1t also cd the purchase of four committee, 1 tota 328 bills 1o purcha Wire tatlored. in the o Green, s and Navys ool biol 9.12 laboratory - for the pur- Walnut price as tabled as 50 cal request fc 0 chairs for auditorium exceed $1,500 immediately urgent, of § are in pes Hill trimmed attrac- to match; touch for || ot ad- Walnut zed as being club was granted the Walnut #ill schoo! auditorium for club purposes, provided that such use docs not on- HORSFALLS [ stiants e 93.-99 Xsylum Street | : of the room. report of the com- Hartford, “It Pays To Buy Our Kind” An expenditure for litiona Hi | urgent, radiation Sizes 16 to ih school was au furnishing one si ool accommodations ftem was acted action commit nto a cqntract with $985 fov laying water {and mains undgr Wells street {being approved. % G. Vibberts explained that the work of paving the stre d to a ayir upon of tlie o Miils for heat Some people are geniuses. One occa- sionally finds a cook who can make perfect dessert without Baker's Cer- | tified Flavoring Extracts. All.grocers. | 1 s would ~—advt, coner paver - | ditional expe t had where further The report o school physi Dr. V. J aceepte Evening School Faculty ning s s printed 00 ning, ior Higl Mondays. 0 to other two and th r sess In actual scientific tests our PASTEURIZED & CLARIFIED MILK proves its purity by the bacteria count—it having by far the least number of bagteria and discase germs (145 degrees for 30 min- Ange Ros: Welin oti- MCH, DELICIOUS our PASTEURIZED & CLARIFIED MILK is the ONLY <afe milk to use, PAST & CLAR. MILK 1 United Milk Co. 49 Woodland Street New Britain Phone 1610 Sarah YOU'LL DO BETTER At Axelrod’s Saturday Specials 1h. 3 Tea Breen's Coffer Breen's Mixed 5 b 20¢ Jams and Marmalades Tha 31c French Olive Oil 15 pint Hot Water Bottles guaranteed Photo Albums Chinwah Compacts, double, small ea. $1 Seott’s Emulsion, lg. Jen Pinches, kowitz, 1 N Esther Extra Special! Mrs. Our Famous EXT. of VANILLA 25¢ Bottles .... 17¢ $1.00 Bottles .... 59¢ Axelrod’s Pharmacy 223 PARK ST. Footha all I Schudule, ichedule of the High approved. Two dates r and the that when these ookings be submitted t Holmes for ap- tter from Superin. Parks Ralph B. Wain- s read. Tt granted the Willo o the High school foot- Where admission. is per cent of the receipts voted XELROD RUemL o FOR bl CCURACY b2ty Let Us Fill Your ba Prescriptions | chareed, 10 morial in team Supt. Holmes Suggests Radical ap- | vngh} point | prin- | la McDonaid, | . | absolute 5 ; roc sufficie NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1624, School Methods The park department will mark the field und keep it clean, will grant no concessions, and will make no park- ing arrangements, while the High school must furnish its own police | protection. The ofter was .ac- copted, as the football team has al- | ready shown its approval of the| south end field, The matter of llability Insurance for the school department, to cover posaible claims arising during the use of parks by the schools, was referred to the cor- poration counsel, | The name “Walnut Hill School” | |was adopted for the former normal | school as being appropriate and an casy means of placing the school, Teachers Favor New Pay Schedule A letter was read from the teach- ers' council with reference to a change in the method of payment for teachers, It stated that a ma- jority of the teachers favored twelve | monthly payments instead of ten as at present. The letter +was re- ferred to the finance committee, An finvitation to Superintendent | Holmes and members of the com- | [mittee, in which Principal Maréus | | White offered to show them the new Normal school in Belvidere, was| |read and accepted. A petition from |parents living in the vicinity of the | Viets lot, on Clinton street and ad- | |jaining streets, in which they asked | {for a school in that district, was re- |ferred to “the committee on school |accommodations. Mr. Holmes said | |that conditions were reaching a | point where a school would be | needed there, | Supt. Holmes' Report The annual report of Superinten- dent Holmes was accepted and or- |dered placed on file, In part, it | was as follows: “The work of the eclementary | |schools has been generally satisfac- |tory and successful during the year. | This had been due to the skill, the |energy, and the faithful work of a |contented teaching staff and super- visory staff, and to the intelligent direction and support of the school committee, “The platoon plan of organization | has now been used in certain of the | elementary schools for eight years. {1t is now in operation in the East | street, Smith, Washington and Na- than Hale schools. These four | schools accommodate approximately |one half of all the pupils in our |elementary grades. ~We now know from experience that under this plan the standards of work in the funda- mentals of reading, writing, arith- | metic, and English are as satisfac- | in schools which are not using | the plan, and at the same time tho | work in special subjects of music, | vsical education are consider- | proved. The expended trial which this plan of organization has | thus been given has confirmed our | orlginal jndgment of its value and our opinion that it should be con- tinued extended as fast as darger |school units are developed, which | are so planned as to lend themselyes [to the successful operation of this plan, 1. e. with auditoriums and | gymnasiums, and with class rooms Sp llv adapted to science work, library work, art work, and music, | as well as regular class rooms, “Medical inspection by a full time | 0ol physician has now had a trial | oxtending over two school years, There is no question as to the im- provement over the former plan of | employing the part time service of | scveral physicians. The employ- ment of two full time' nurses in- stead of one has\also proven much more satisfactory, It has been 't however, that even with this increased amount of service, the medical Inspection and nursing sery- was tnadequate. In order to sccure more satisfactory results, |it has therefore been planned to | provide another full time pm-mmni |and one more school nurse. These additions to the inspection and sing service will make it possible to provide for the inspection of the hial schools and of the girls| 10th and Senior High | schools, which up to this time have | en adequately provided for, | 1 as possible, however, two or more nurses should be em- d in order to satisfactorily pro- such follow-up work as is necessary to assure the cffcctive and satisfactory re- | ccause of a cut in the ap- n for health work in the Was necessary to discon- hygiene work at | of the school year, June, There can be no reasonable | as to the value and need k for the children, and it that a sufficiently large int of moncy may be provided | ke possible the dental hygiene | ably i it the close dental to vlof (e Monroe School problen District Problem. | of providing school | to adequately ac- odate the constantly increasing uber of pupils is one that is mittee. The provision of new ad- ditions to the Osgood Hill, Stanley and Smalley schools, and the erec- tlon of a new bchool to draw from the East street and Smith schools will give much needed relief in the districts in which these new bulld- ings are to be built, There still remains unsolved, however, the problem of relief for the Monroe school dlstrict. The considerable number of new dwelllngs erected | within the past year in this district | has created a very pressing need for | action In providing additional school room. . . “Attention should also be given as | soon as possible to the problem of additional school rooms for the Lin- coln district by the erection of a new bullding upon the Steele street plot recently purchased. “The district in which the lett and Washington schools are located - would doubtless be taken care of much more satisfactorily if the Bartlett school building were to be abandoned so far as further vse for school purposes fis con- cerned, and a new building were | erccted upon the Viets piot on Clinton street, a location much bet- ter situated for the accommodation of the school population of that | portion of the district, “A series of teachers' conferences were held in the fall for the con- sideration *of the most important problem of administration andIn- | struction, In these conference the courses of study for the va oua divisions of the schools were given spey consideration,. with a view to better understanding and possible improvement. The meth- ods of teaching the different sub- jects were carefully reviewed, and special attention was given to the problem of securing better and more cffective modes of study by the pupils, particularly in the junior and senior high schools, “Attention is called to the fact | that these were teachers' confer- | ences, not teachers’ meetings, and | that they were led and conducted by the teachers themselves, with full opportunity for the full expres- sion of opinion and experience, as | it has been developed through ac- tual. class room work, Ior this | reason, their value was many times | greater than it could otherwise | have heen for both the teacher and the schools. Improvement At High Schools “The improvement of the work in senior and junior high schools is a matter of great importance. There is serious need for its consideration and it is for this reason that the | following extended statement is presented. | “At the conferences before men- | tioned, and throughout the year, it | has been gratifying to note a live- 1y interest on the part of the jun- jor and senior high school teach- ers in the problem of improved plans for organization of the curri- | cula, better assignment of work, | and more matire and effective modes of study on the part of the pupils. | “It is no doubt true that traditional ways handling jects in high &chools can and ought | to be improved, and that modes of | Bart- of sub- assignment of work by the teach- || ers, and stndy by the pupils now in | use in nearly high * schools shiould he so modified as (1) to bet- ter adjust the to the abili- | ties of pupils of varying degrees of ability (2) to train in more ma- ture habits of study and thought and (3) to secure more thorough and effective work by the pupil. | “The usual curriculum and ' the procedure usually followed in as signing lessons in high scheols has been and still is based upon assumption, that there is In ecach subject a medium average amount of work which each pupil can or ought to accomplish in given period of time, regardiess of the varying interests and abilities | different pupils. | For the teacher,’the work is laid | out in the course of study in large units covering a year or a term, but the pupil never secs this course of | study.in completed form in any sub- ject. He may be studying history, | aigebra or Latin, but the only oppor- | tunity he has to view the subject as | a whole is through the text-hook which gives I#tle or no information or help in determining as to the rel- | ative importance of different points | or topics. recefves from the teacher each da nent | of work for the next day only, which il are expected to cover their study and he able to upon. This assignment is entirely a class affair, based upon the assumption | that all are or ought to be able to! do the work assigned for the next day's lesson. | \ No Two Pupils Alike | *h class, however, is m of twenty or thirty pupils, of whom are exactly alike, s differing backgrounds, differing a jties, diffeiing interests, aims purposes, differing temperaments differing attitudes toward cffort work in general, and differing cal and mer conditions, i work the or The class v an assig in recite “ ade up | no two | 1 wi al | vary even from day to wo Pupils Alike ass, however, is 1r | continually before the school com- | or thirty pupils Renier, Pickhardt & Dunn 127 Main Street Smart models for girls in Priced at $8.98, fancy euffs—75 NEW SWEATERS—NEW HOSIERY—NEW NECKWEAR JACK TAR TOGS for BOYS and GIRLS Sizes 6 to 16 years BOYS' TWEED, JERSEY AND SERGE SUITS $5.75 to $8.98—Sizes 4 to 8 years NEW CHAMOISETTE GLOVE In the well known “Van Raalte” make, with or without NEW HATS FOR THE LITTLE MISS Made of Velvet, Velour, Felt, Broadcloth or Silk—Priced from $1.00 up Flannel and Pretty Plaids. $9.98 and $11.98 ¢ to $2.25 pair FALL SHADES IN SILK { ortance. the || of whom are exactly allke, all with differing backgrounds, differing abil- ities, differing interests, aims and purposes, differing temperaments, differing attitudes toward effort and work in general, and differing physi- cal and mental conditions, which vary even from day to day. “Some’ of the members of the class wotld do the work assigned if they could, but because of perma- nent or temporary mental or physi- cal unfitngss or both, they mugt fall of accomplishment.and arp marked as fallures for that day's work at least. Other members of the class | because of fallure in earlier lessons or because of previous absence from class are unable to fully understand the new work assigned and come to the next day's recitation period in- adequately prepared. They general- Iy hope to escape, being called upon, but if they do not escape they are certain to be marked as partial it not total failures, so far as that day's work is concerned. §till other mem- bers of the class are of the slow moving mental type, which needs and takes considerably more than the average amount of time to ab- sorh new material and new ideas. They cannot keep the average pace and so are marked as failures. Phere are others, too, who are lazy, indit- ferent, and uninterested. They are to be found in all classes. How long they should be tolerated in any high hool is a question of serious im- And then there are those who can and will do the work as signed in a y falrly satisfactory. They are the joy of the teacher and the hope of the school, for it is they who_help to keep up the average class rank and the reputation of the school for good work, ' “This. statement of conditions is fairly accurate for any class In any high school which Is following the traditional modes of assignment and study. The fundamental defect In this way of+doing things lies in the fact that the Individual differences in abllities, interests and conditions are not taken Into account and no provision made for them. The re- sult is a pqcentn‘e of fallures which is too large and a standard of ac- complishment much too low, and teachers and school administrators are more keenly aware of these re- sults than anyone -el “Group and individual Intelligence tests as well as subject tests have been employed and have no little value, in that they reveal the exact sitwation so far as the native abili- ties of the pupils antt their actual accomplishments in each subject are concerned, but they do not provide a means for reducing the percentage of failures or improving the stand- ards of accomplishment, “Attempts at a solution of the dif- ficulty have been made in some schools by arranging the pupils in separate groups according to their apparent native abilities, with sep- arate classes .for the bright or able, and other classes for those who are slower and less able, but the solution cannot be found in this way, for the modes of assignment by the teacher and of study by the puplls still need | the percentage of fallures can be to be modified and improved, ::"""""'r:""::‘:“ “)l:.‘:‘u':“:,"'; “The solution of the difficuity, if independent ways ."' lflu‘(y and work there be any possible, is probably to be found (1) in abandoning the practice of dally assignment of les- #ons, and substituting therefor as- signments of larger and more com- plete topics or units of work,” in written'form, covering several weeks and (3) that the sense of individua! power and consequent satisfaction and interest In work can be In- creased. “We do not expect to eliminate all fallures, for we shall still have, as must all public schools, & certain 80 that the pupll may know and see [ number of puplls who are weither the end from the beginning of' his|misfits in high schoo) or too indolent effort, accompanying each assign-|to do the assigned work, and who ment with carefully drawn notes and | must for thelr own good and the written directions and references to good of the school, sooner or later guide the pupll In the prosecution of | pe dropped from the membership his study, and (2) in partially aban- doning the regular daily recitation and substituting therefore a labora- tory plan or research plan of work ar study, thus giving each pupil an opportunity to complete the assigned work at his own pace and in his own way, but under the supervision and guidance of the teacher of the particular subject, provision beln made for periodical reviews, quizz and class consultations, add (3) re- quiring each pupil to complete the assignment already given Before a new assignment is undertaken, and (4) giving full credit to each pupll for all work when and as soon as it is completed, “This plan, sometimes called the laboratory plan, has already been given a limited trial in certain classes in the Central Junior high school, It is planned to give a !imited trial in the Senior high school also, begin- ning in September of this year, We rolls.” Manning Meets Farmer In Golf Semi-Final C. W. Manning and Malcolm Farmer were scheduled to batiis this afternoon In the semi-fina: of play for the golf champoinship of the Shuftle Meadow club. The winner will meet D. R. Manning in the final 36-hole manch, which will be played Sunday or Monday. The only matcly piayed yesterday * was in the sccond sixteen, wher C. W. Upson downed I, R. Hyat!, 3 up and 2 to play, in the last scc- ond round match. The winper was carded to meet Robert Ruasell in one semi-inal today. Thirty tons” of coral have been imported from the Bahamas by the American Museum of Natural hope to prove b rial (1) that | history. ProrPERTY BF OPPORTUNITY Knocks But Once— hat Once Is NOW - NEW BRITAIN REAL ESTATE & TITLE CO. New Bwiran, Cosgenan Mav 1924 Awruum W Bacow, Ena'w P s AR flEEEfiflHHHHE Ask us to show you these lots today. - The W. L. Hatch Co. CITY HALL BUILDING 29 WEST MAIN STREET ’Phone 3400 We are offering 70-choice lots, properly restricted, 15 minutes’ walk from City Hall, and in the best residential section, just east of Lincoln street. There is water, electricity, and sidewalks in the streets of this development, yet these lots are a‘great deal lower in price than in other desirable locations. A small cash deposit is all that is required, the balance on easy payments. Representative on the Grounds Saturday, 1:30 to 5:30 p. m.