Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — Jasper County Teachers’ Institute. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Teachers’ Institute.

Will be held at the Court House in Rensselaer, open MONDAY, AUG., 20, and will continue two weeks. Instruction will be given as to matter and, method in each of the common branches and in Civil Government. Special attention will be given to Pedagogics, the analysis of mind and the fundamental processes of thought. This subject has been placed in tne hands of Prof. J. C. Black, of Indianapolis, who will also instruct in Reading and Physiology, and give two evening lectures. Prof. J. B. Ragan, Associate Principal of the Richmond Normal School, will have charge of Arith., Gram., History and Civil Gevernment. Mr. Ragan as a graduate and former teacher of the State Normal School and has made a thorough study of his profession. Model classes will be taughtin Primary Reading, Arith.. and Language, and the methods used, fully discussed. The regular teachers’ examination will be held on the last Saturday in August. Also a special examination on the Saturday after the institute. It is designed to make the Ins titute a school in which each member will not only.review the subject taught, but will make a careful study of the method involved. Subjects of general interest to the county —graduation, Township institutes, etc., will be discussed. Every, teacher should bring such text-books as he has and be provided with “scratch book” and pencil. The work will be »uch as is needed every day in our common schools, and let no one who is a teacher or who expects to-. become such, fail to attend. Come both weeks, and-have an interesting and profitable time. Very Respectfully, D. M. NELSON, Co. Supt. Ayers Ague Cure never fails- to cureFe ver and .Ague, and all malarial disorders. Warranted.

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