Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1880 — THE NORMAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NORMAL.

The third sessi° n of the Jasper County Normal opens next TuesdayThe indications are that there will be a large attendance and that the Normal will be the best ever held in this county. A new and valuable feature of the forth-coming Normal is the Model School. More teachers fail from the fact of their not having correct methods of teaching than from any other cause. Although a knowledge of the subjects to be taught is very necessary yet the mastery of the art of teaching those subjects is of infinitely greater importance. This fact is admitted by educators everywhere. Then to meet this demand of the schools upon the teacher for better insiruction (and it is a demand which is becoming more urgent every day) the Normal holds out its hand. In the Normal proper there will be a class sustained in the Theory of teaching. This work will find its complement in the Model School. This school will be composed of the children from.town and will be under the instruction of four of the best teachers in the county. The Model School and the teachers train' ing class will be under the immediate supervision of the county Superintendent. Methods will be studied in the training class and then put into practice in the Model School- Thus the utmost harmony will obtain between the instruction in the Theory cf Teaching. in the Training class and the Practice of teachiugexempliiied in the Model School. Arrangements have been made for club boarding that will reduce the the price of table board to $1.50 per week. To the Patrons of the Rensselaer Schools. You are all invited to send your children to the Normal. No tuition will be charged. The branches, Reading, Writing, Numbers and Arithmetic, Language and Grammar, and Place and Geography will be taught, in the several grades. Your children will be placed in charge of experienced teachers’ Mr. Pierce the teacher of penmanship in the Nor. mal will give them one lesson a week in penmanshop free of charge. That their attendance during the hot trummer months of July and August may be rather a restand recreation than a task they will have but one recitation each d iy. Your children will be much benefitted by attending. They will not only learn something new but their last years work will be kept fresh and bright in their memories. A position will be offered some good industrious trusty person as Janitor of the building during the Normal. The pay will be sufficient to bear hie expense of board and tuition for the -en tire term