Teachers Institute heldThe following article was printed in the Rock County Herald April 21, 1882:"A State Teachers’ Institute of one week beginning at 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 24th, and closing Friday following, will be held in this county at the High School room in Union block, village of Luverne.The work of this Institute will be to consider the most approved plans of school organization and government, the best methods of teaching the common school branches, and how to remove the difficulties which are most usual and obstinate in the teachers’ experience.The Institute will be under the management of the county superintendent, who will give such instruction, especially in care of records and discipline, as he prefers. No pains will be spared to make the institute of the greatest practical advantage to teachers; and those who give their entire attention to all that is done, will go to their schools with new energy and increased ability.The syllabus prepared at the Institute Conductors’ meeting, in July last will be the basis of work. Evening lectures may be expected on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, unless otherwise announced. Teachers should be present Monday forenoon to make all necessary arrangements for board and other incidentals, so that all will be in readiness at 1:30 p.m. for the first lesson.Each teacher should bring his reader (Appleton’s Fourth, or its equivalent), dictionary, blank book, paper and pencils. The time has come when every good and growing teacher is expected to make methods of teaching and school organization his study. Normal schools, institutes, books, journals and associations are doing their work in every county. It is expected, therefore, that every teacher in the county, looking toward the schoolroom, will be in his place at the coming Institute. The certificates are now prepared for marking the professional ability of the teacher. Every effort will be made to give teachers the full benefit of all they are prepared to do, and to introduce the deserving ones to the attention of districts that call for good teachers.D.L. KIEHLE,Supt. Pub. Inst.Teachers’ examination to follow on Saturday, April 29th."Donations to the Rock County Historical Endowment Fund can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@1w.net.
