Science teachers in conference

ABSTRACT FOR the third time the Technical Education Board of the London County Council has arranged and held a conference of teachers of science from all parts of the kingdom. Since their

inauguration, these annual meetings have steadily grown in popularity. At the first conference, in 1899, there was an attendance of eighty persons, in 1900 the number had grown to 200, while

at the meetings held last week the attendance reached the total of 350. These satisfactory results are largely due to the efforts of Mr. C. A. Buckmaster, of the Board of Education, and Dr.

Kimmins, the Inspector to the Technical Education Board, who have steadily worked during the three years in encouraging lecturers, demonstrators and inspectors to meet together for the

discussion of methods of teaching different branches of science. The addresses and papers brought before the conference at the South-Western Polytechnic, Chelsea, on January 10 and 11, dealt

with subjects of great importance in an interesting and instructive manner; but the discussions were not entirely satisfactory. It is useless to expect teachers to contribute anything

valuable to a discussion at a moment's notice. It should be possible at future meetings to obviate in a large measure the desultory speeches on more or less general topics which this

year followed the addresses and papers. If half a dozen well-known, practical teachers were given an abstract of the paper before the meeting, they would be able, with a few days'

preparation, to place succinctly before the meeting the results of their own practice, and besides putting the discussion on right lines, they would lead other teachers with experience of

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