Visual Education (Jan 1923-Dec 1924)

54 Visual Education Thursday, March 1 Afternoon — Hotel Winton The School Assembly as a Socializing Influence. The Project Method from the Principal's Viewpoint. Report of Committee on Educational Progress. Tuesday, February 27 Afternoon — Hotel Winton General topic : "Some Everyday Problems of the Principal." The Retarded Child: His Opportunity. Relation of the Elementary School Principal to the General Testing Program. Wednesday, February 28 Afternoon — Public Auditorium General topic: "The Elementary School Principalship— Past, Present, and Future." The Growth of the Principalship. The Elementary School Principalship of the Present Day. The Possibilities of the Elementary School Principalship from the University Point of View and from the Superintendent's Point of View. CITY TRAINING SCHOOL SECTION Monday, February 26 9:30 A. M. — Cleveland School of Education General topic : "The Distinctive Functions of the City Training School." From the Viewpoint of the Specialist in Teacher Training — W. C. Bagley, Teachers College, Columbia University. From the Viewpoint of the City Superintendent— Supt. Chas. L. Meek, Toledo, Ohio. From the Viewpoint of the City School of Education — L. A. Pechstein, Dean of the College of Education, University of Cincinnati. Discussion led by Supt. E. C. Hartwell, Buffalo. 12:00 M.— Cleveland School of Education Luncheon. 4:00 P. M. — Cleveland City Training School Tour of inspection, led by Dean Ambrose L. Suhrie. Discussion: Frank Cody, Detroit, Mich.; Dean Henry W. Holmes, Graduate School of° Education, Harvard University; J. C. Brown, State Normal School, St. Cloud, Minn.; H. W. Rockwell, State Normal School, Buffalo; J. W. Withers, School of Education, University of the City of New York; G. B. Jeffers, Asst. Supt. of Schools, Schenectady, N. Y. Tuesday, February 27 9:30 A. M. — Cleveland School of Education General topic : "Practice Teaching." Practice Teaching — E. G. Payne, Prof, of Educational Sociology, New York University. Improvement of Practice Teaching — N. W. Cameron, Director of Teachers Training School, Baltimore. Detroit's Practice Teaching Program — Miriam A. Besley, Head of Practice Teaching Department, Detroit Teachers College. A Proposed Program of Teacher Training-— Garry C. Myers, Cleveland School of Education. Correlation Between Success in High School, in Normal School, and in Teaching — Louise Patrick, Louisville Normal School. General discussion. Inspection of exhibits. 2:00 P. M. — Cleveland School of Education Cost Problems in Teacher Training — F. W. Smith, Prin. City Normal School, Paterson, N. J. A Teacher-Training Program in Sex Education — T. W. Galloway, American Social Hygiene Association. A Student Government Organization — Louise Robertson, Louisville Normal School. Placement and Supervision of Probationary Teachers — Catherine Morgan, Head of Probationary Dept., Detroit Teachers College. We Graduate Them; Then What?— W. T. Heilman, Prin. Columbus Normal School, Columbus, Ohio. Educational Testing from the Standpoint of Individual Instruction — Frederic Burk, Pres. State Normal School, San Francisco. The Measurement of Teaching Load in a State Normal School — H. A. Brown, Pres. State Normal School, Oshkosh. Wis. Time Distribution by Subjects in Representing Teacher-Training Institutions ■ — J. Leslie Purdom, Prin. Harris Teachers College, St. Louis. Observation and Participation as Laboratory Experiments — Charles Russell, Director Division of Elementary Education, Toledo. DEPARTMENT OF RURAL EDUCATION Tuesday, February 27 Afternoon — Ball Room, Hotel Cleveland General topic: "Facts and Future of the County Superintendency" — Miss Adelaide M. Ayer, State Rural Supervisor, Helena, Mont. Discussion of report of Committee on County Superintendents' Problems, as presented by Lee L. Driver. Practical Workings of the County Unit — C. G. Cooper, Supt., Baltimore Co., Md. Analysis of the Next Step in Professionalizing the Office of County Superintendent — Miss Charl O. Williams. Evening— Ball Room, Hotel Cleveland Joint program with the Department of Superintendence. The Economic Background of Rural Education — Aaron Shapiro, National Attorney, Farmers' Co-operative Associations. Wednesday, February 28 Afternoon— Ball Room, Hotel Cleveland Five section meetings: State Supervisors and Inspectors of Rural Schools. County Superintendents and Rural School Supervisors. Rural Normal Directors. Vocational Directors and Rural Extension Workers. Village and Consolidated School Principals. Thursday, March 1 Morning — Ball Room, Hotel Cleveland Joint session with the County Superintendents' Section of the Department of Superintendence. General topic: "Rural School Administration and the County Unit." Speakers: T. H. Harris, State Supt. of Louisiana; Benjamin J. Burris, State Supt. of Indiana; May Trumper, State Supt. of Montana; C. L. Coon, Supt. of Wilson County Schools, North Carolina; M. S. Pittman, Normal College, Ypsilanti, Mich. Afternoon — Ball Room, Hotel Cleveland General topic: "The Consolidation of Rural Schools." Speakers: Charles A. Lory, Pres. State Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo.; Macy Campbell, State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Leslie B. Sipple, State Normal School, Aberdeen, S. Dak. Report of Committee on Comparative Instruction in One-Teacher and Consolidated Schools — John M. Foote, State Rural Agent, Baton Rouge, La. General discussion, led by Hilda M. Hughes, Co. Supt., La Grange, Ind. Evening — Special dinner for county superintendents and rural school specialists. Friday, March 2 Morning — Ball Room, Hotel Cleveland Rural Child Welfare — Owen R. Lovejoy, National Child Labor Committee, New York City. Educational Opportunities for Negro Children — Thos. Jesse Jones, PhelpsStokes Fund, New York City. Annual business meeting.