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MONEY ORDER, CHECK OR STAMPS ACCEPTED ADDRESS: UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISION, THE PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION A HAND-BOOK FOR NORTH CAROLINA Revised Edition BY HAROLD D. MEYER Supervisor of Field Work, School of Public Welfare THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS CHAPEL HILL, N. C. TABLE OF CONTENTS LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL PAGE MISS NELLIE ROBERSON, Chief of the Bureau of Public Discussion, 3 LETTER OF INTERPRETATION HON. E. C. BROOKS, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.... LETTER OF GREETINGS MRS. J. F. SPRUILL, President North Carolina Parent-Teacher 5 PREFACE 6 PART I. THE PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION AT WORK 7 Organizing a Parent-Teacher Association.... 8 Developing and Maintaining Interest in Parent-Teacher Associations 13 Group IV. Part 1. The Teacher..... Part 2. Some School Problems. Group V. Agencies Aiding Community and School.. Group VI. Miscellaneous Subjects.... .. PART III. SOME ADDED FEATURES OF INTEREST Special Features for Programs. The Grade Mother System.. 20 27 33 40 43 47 53 61 63 The State Organization... A Suggested Constitution for Local Organizations. OUTLINE FORMS FOR YEARLY PROGRAMS.. 72 80 86 90 95 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL TO THE PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA: At the request of the Bureau of Public Discussion and with the approval of Dean N. W. Walker of the School of Education, Professor Harold D. Meyer of the Department of Sociology, in 1922, prepared a bulletin, the purpose of which was to encourage the organization of parent-teacher associations and to assist them with their meetings. So great was the demand for the bulletin that the edition was soon exhausted and a second one became necessary. Under these circumstances, the author has brought out this new bulletin, making the necessary and practicable changes, but the general plan has remained the same. Outlines have been worked out and reference books cited for outside reading. Package libraries and books have been secured for the use of those who follow these outlines and will be sent to those who make the necessary arrangements with the University Extension Division. The bulletin will be sent free of charge to every parent-teacher association in the State, as well as to high school principals and superintendents. A small charge will be made when more copies are required. Leaders of parent-teacher association meetings are invited to call on the Bureau of Public Discussion for help with the programs and all assistance possible will be rendered. For further information regarding this bulletin and the programs it contains, address The Bureau of Public Discussion, University Extension Division, January 11, 1923. A MESSAGE TO THE PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION From the State Superintendent of Public Instruction A successful public school cannot be maintained without the coöperation of patrons, teachers and school officials. For many years it was thought that the governing board of a school represented the public. Therefore, little attention was paid to securing the coöperation of the individual patrons. The public school, however, should seek to promote not only the well-being of the individual pupil but unity, harmony and welfare of the entire community. No agency has come to the aid of the schools that has greater possibilities for good than the parentteacher association. It can give the teachers an understanding of the peculiar needs of the children, the helps or hindrances of home environment and the special needs of the children to which the school should address itself. It can bring about a coöperation of parents and teachers that can work together in a large way for the improvement of the community. In this way isolation, clannishness, and community strife may be overcome, for people learn one another when they work with common aims, and when they learn one another misunderstandings in the main disappear and harmony, as a rule, is the result. The best community is the one in which all of its citizens are active members of the local government. The purpose of the parent-teacher association is in harmony with the modern spirit of coöperation that every rural community, every village and every citizen should be organized, in order that this spirit of coöperation may extend its educative values both to the parents and the children. E. C. BROOKS, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. |