p. 86 | Teachers' Meetings by Erwin House

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1884

Teachers' Meetings.

By Erwin House

TEACHERS' meetings can be conducted successfully, and in many places are; but they will not bear a stereotyped or inflexible mode. Consider first the advantages of such meetings:—

1. They promote acquaintanceship among the teachers, and fellowship and sympathy for each other in their work.

2. They give the superintendent opportunity to make known his plans, interest the teachers therein, and counsel and direct them in their labors, and thus unite the whole school into one manageable, working body.

3. They give opportunity for the consideration of measures, and the transaction of necessary business.

4. They give opportunity for that thorough and uniform preparation of the lesson that teachers who bear the burden of souls always desire.

5. They give teachers opportunity for the culture of the heart and united prayer.

Consider, next, how teachers' meetings can best be made to secure these ends:—

1. They should be held weekly, and at such time and place that the greatest possible number can attend.

2. They should be regarded by the superintendent and teachers as part of the regular and necessary work of the school.

3. They should be attended by all the teachers, and those absent without cause should be regarded as neglecting their trust equally with those absenting themselves from the class on Sabbath.

4. They should be earnestly prepared for by the superintendent and teachers, and engaged in with zeal and spirit.

Can such meetings be held in the country? They can. Let the teachers meet before the church service in the morning of the Sabbath, or let them meet after the school is dismissed and the scholars are gone.—Erwin House, A. M.