DOMINION TEACHERS.
GRADING SYSTEM. AMERICAN PROFESSOR’S CRITICISM (F;y Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Frank condemnation of New Zealand methods of education, particularly the grading of teachers, was expressed to-day, by Professor Hart, of the California University, in his Educational Fellowship conference address. “ It is an utter impossibility to grade teachers numerically, and at the same time give the individual teacher fair play,” he said. He criticised the fact that under existing conditions the inspectors were concerned more with the making of administrative reports, which directly affect teachers salaries and promotions, teachers could not do their best before an inspector when they knew' their promotion depended upon Ills Impression of their work. Professor Hart urged that in reorganisation in New* Zealand inspectors should rather be supervisors, whose duty it was “to teach teachers to teach.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20246, 15 July 1937, Page 7
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133DOMINION TEACHERS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20246, 15 July 1937, Page 7
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