TEACHERS MEET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 6

TEACHERS MEET.

SECONDARY SCHOOLS. I - METHOD OF APPOINTMENT. MOULDING " FILM TASTE." (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The annual meeting of the Secondary School Teachers' Association was held yesterday, nearly all secondary schools being represented. The Director of Education, Mr. N. T. Lambourne, referred to the salary committee set up to bring down a scale of nost-primary salaries, and epoke appreciatively of the co-operation existing between the associations' representatives and the Department upon that committee. The president, Mr. J. Hutton, delivered an address on some aspects of adjustment to-day, pointing out the need in schools for adequate preparation for the complex life ahead of pupils. In the consideration of remits particular stress was laid on the need for increased library facilities and ' >r some satisfactory method of appoint-nent of secondary teachers. It was felt that many of the larger district high schools should be converted into separate postprimary schools. with intermediate schools consolidated from the districts attached to them. The report of the film appreciation committee was presented by Mr. L. B. Qiiartermain, who said the committee was gratified to note the interest taken in its work by an increasing number of teachers and their evident desire to avail themselves of the committee's help in moulding the film taste of their pupils. The majority of boys and girls had no really satisfactory" guidance as to what films to see, and they were surprisingly keen to have some guidance It was worth while just to introduce them to first-rate films, just as it was worth while to introduce them to firstrate books. It was decided that the next annual meeting be held in Christchurch.