IMPROVED TEACHING

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 7

IMPROVED TEACHING

IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS:

“The past year has witnessed a consulerable improvement in the quality ot tn® teaching and in the standard of Monk acconiplistied in the majority- of secondary schools,” states r. departmental repoit presented in the Housi^ of Representatives on Thursday. “A great deal of such improvement is due partly to the lac. many experienced teachers who had been away on active service have now resumed their duties, and partly to the recovery of the children from the adverse effects of the influenza epidemic ot IJlb--19. At the close of 1918 no lower thain eighteen women teachers were employed in” seven boys’ schools in place of masters absent with the Expeditionary lorce; the majority of these did faithful and effi-cient-work, but their sphere of usefulness in such schools was obviously lestrieted. Since that time the number has been reduced very considerably, and during last year only three Women teachers were employed, one in each of tnice separate boys’ schools. The supply of qualified male teachers is not yet by any means excessive, and several schools, especially those in towns which are not university centres, have experienced great difficulty in obtaining suitable men for their staffs.” “Marked progress has ocen made in the teaching of horns science; tvo ol tb« largest girls’ schools in the Donunion have- been provided with cookery rooms for-the first time, and several others have been supplied with new laboratories or have been enabled to equip adequately laboratories which hitherto had been sadly deficient in apparatus. Ihe supply of experienced home-scicnce teachers, however, still presents u. difficult problem; a large proportion of teachers in this subject marry at the end ot a few years, and practically all the incoming teachers are quite untrained in school method’.”