TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AT TEACHERS' MEETINGS.

1. The daily preparation which the teacher should bring to the school.

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2. The circumstances which make a teacher happy in school.

3. The requisites of success in teaching.

4. Causes of failure in teaching.

5. The course to be pursued in organizing a school.

6. The order of exercises or programme of recitations.

7. The policy of promulgating a code of rules for the government of a school.

8. The keeping of registers of attendance and progress.

9. The duties of the teacher to the parents of the children and to schoolofficers.

10. The opening and closing exercises of a school.

11. Moral and religious instruction and influence generally.

12. The best use of the Bible or Testament in school.

13. Modes of promoting a love of truth, honesty, benevolence, and other virtues among children.

14. Modes of promoting obedience to parents, respectful demeanor to elders, and general submission to authority.

15. Modes of securing cleanliness of person and neatness of dress, respect for the school-room, courtesy of tone and language to companions, and gentleness of manners.

16. Modes of preserving the school-house and appurtenances from injury and defacement.

17. Length and frequency of recess.

18. The games, and modes of exercise and recreation to be encouraged during the recess, and at intermission.

19. Modes of preventing tardiness, and securing the regular attendance of children at school.

20. Causes by which the health and constitution of children at school are impaired, and the best ways of counteracting the same.

21. The government of a school generally.

22. The use and abuse of corporal punishment.

23. The establishment of the teacher's authority in the school.

24. Manner of treating stubborn and refractory children, and the policy of dismissing the same from school.

25. Prizes and rewards.

26. The use and abuse of emulation.

27. Modes of interesting and bringing forward dull, or backward scholars.

28. Modes of preventing whispering, and communication between scholars in school.

29. Manner of conducting recitations generally; and how to prevent cr detect imperfect lessons.

30. Methods of teaching, with illustrations of each, viz:

a. Monitorial.

b. Individual.

Interrogative.

f. Explanative.
g. Elliptical.
2. Synthetical.

i. Analytical.

31. Modes of having all the children of a school (composed as most District schools are, of children of all ages, and in a great variety of studies,) at all times something to do, and a motive for doing it.

32. Methods of teaching the several studies usually introduced into publie schocis-such as

a. The use, and nature, and formation of numbers.

b. Mental Arithmetic.

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Written Arithmetic.

d. Spelling.

e. Reading.

f. Grammar-including conversation, composition, analysis of sentences, parsing, &c.

g. Geography-including map-drawing, use of outline maps, atlas, globes, &c.

h. Drawing-with special reference to the employment of young children, and as preliminary to penmanship.

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Penmanship.

j. Vocal music.

k. Physiology-so far at least as the health of children and teacher in the school-room is concerned.

33. The apparatus and means of visible illustration, necessary for the schools of different grades.

34. The development and cultivation of observation, attention, memory, association, conception, imagination, &c.

35. Modes of inspiring scholars with enthusiasm in study, and cultivating habits of self-reliance.

36. Modes of cultivating the power and habit of attention and study.

37. Anecdotes of occurrences in the school, brought forward with a view to form right principles of moral training and intellectual development. 38. Lessons, on real objects, and the practical pursuits of life.

39. Topics and times for introducing oral instruction, and the use of lectures generally.

40. Manner of imparting collateral and incidental knowledge.

41. The formation of museums and collections of plants, minerals, &c. 42. Exchange of specimens of penmanship, map and other drawings, minerals, plants, &c., between the different schools of a town, or of different towns. 43. School examinations generally.

44. How far committees should conduct the examination.

45. Mode of conducting an examination by written questions and answers. 46. School celebrations, and excursions of the school, or a portion of the scholars, to objects of interest in the neighborhood.

47. Length and frequency of vacations.

48. Books and periodicals on education, schools and school systems.

49. Principles to be regarded in the construction of a school-house for schools of different grades.

50. Principles on which text-books in the several elementary studies should be composed.

51. The use of printed questions in text-books.

52. The private studies of a teacher.

53. The visiting of each other's schools.

54. The peculiar difficulties and encouragements of each teacher, in respect to school-house, attendance, supply of books, apparatus, parental interest and co-operation, support by committees, &c., &c.

55. The practicability of organizing an association of the mothers and females generally of a district or town, to visit schools, or of their doing so without any special organization.

56. Plan for the oganization, course of instruction, and management generally of a Teachers Institute.

57. Advantages of an Association or Conference of the Teachers of a Town or State, and the best plan of organizing and conducting the same.

58. Plan of a Normal School or Seminary, for the training of Teachers for Common or Public Schools.