EXCHANGING TEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17593, 5 October 1920, Page 6

EXCHANGING TEACHERS.

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EXPERIENCE IN VANCOUVER.

The arrangement that recently was made by the Minister for Education, the Hon, C. ; J. Parr, for temporary ex- t .changes of school teachers between New I Zealand and British Colombia, has received effect in the Auckland Education Board's district. Two Auckland teachers, Miss E. M.' Harper, of the Auckland •Normal School staff, and Miss E. Eoche, of the Hamilton East school, have gone /to Vancouver, where they are temporarily taking up positions in one of the largest schools in that city. These positions have been vacated for. the time being by Miss Bigney and Miss Frame, who have arrived in Auckland and assumed their new duties, the former at the Normal School and the' latter at the Hamilton East school. The duration of the exchange -of teachers, which has been arranged in connection with the "Hands Across the Sea" movement, will be about twelve months. „ The Minister, in a recent statement on the question, said that his department was keenly alive to the importance of the new movement. "It was proposed, he said, to select six teachers annually to-go abroad, and in their place they hoped to get teachers from other, parts of the Empire, The department also proposed to pay half the passage money of teachers who wished to study methods of instruction in other countries.