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ments and surely the most difficult ones involve other people, they are social. Of
no human being can this be said more truthfully than of the teachers. For oxample,
every day the teacher has numerous contacts with individual pupils and even more
numerous contacts with the grouo-tho class. Each of these contacts calls for an
adjustment of some sort. Scme are easy and pleasant, others difficult and perhaps
unpleasant,

Teachers must daily dcal with human beings in the making, with all the baffling
twists and quirks of childhood and with fow of the tools for self-help and little of
the protecting insulation the average adult has acquired. That the strain leaves its
marks on the teacher is not surpvising. The astounding fact is that the mark is not
clearer, the result not more distressing. The demands of every profession leave
their mark on its practitioners, The mark of the teacher shows first in personality
because the teacher deals in personalities,

The most important part of every teachers equipment is the kind of person he is.
It is the central part to every effort toward the improvement of teaching. It is
essential to all programs for the betterment of education in general.

Remmer' in the Measurement of Teaching Personality and Its Relation to the Learn:
ing Process draws this conclusion, ‘“"“within the range of variation among teachers
in service, their personality traits play a part at least as important in determining
success or failure as do intelligence of training in and mastery of professional sub
ject matter.""

When Barr had selected two groups of teachers, one good and one poor in teaching
effectiveness, and had exemined their characteristics and teaching practices, he
found that among other things they differed markedly in personal characteristics.
Such studies show clearly that a complex of factors operates to determine teaching
success and that not the least of these is itself a complex we call "personality".

Hart in Teachers and Teaching reports the reaction of ten thousand high-school
seniors to a request that they describe their best liked teacher, their best teacher,
and the one they liked least, Their answers give an answer of wholesome personality.
in 80% of the cases the best and the best liked teacher were one and the same person.

A teacher whom the pupils like, if he possesses any teaching skill will tend to
be an effective teacher. Pupils like teachers who possess the characteristics we all
admire in wholesome personalities,

Teachers should frequently ask themselves questions such as the following:

What kind of a person am I? Do students enjoy my company? and finally Do my students
like me? The teacher who “hates kids," must lead a miserable life. I must not only
like my pupils, but I must know and understand them.

I should like for my teachers to develop enthusiasm in pupils for the activity
présented to them. Teachers that are Physical Education Majors will perhaps have a
love for sports and activities but the onthusiasm of the pupil will vary throughout
the year. Then the teacher must motivate onthusiasm by presonting the material in a
manner that will increase interest, Not only should the teacher develop enthusiasm
in pupils but also sce that her own does not lag.

I should like for my teachers to use and develop their own ingenuity. To take
the material at hand and do your best. Maybe the facilities are not the same as you
were accustomed to in college.

Finally I should like for my teachers as a group to enter upon a concerted cam-
paign to improve the public attitude toward us as persons and as a profession. We
are too modest, too willing to let our works speak for us, The trouble is that our
works often have to be gauged by long range results that the public forgets to con-~
sider. Might not some value result from a little well placed publicity?

Executive Council Meeting

The Executive Council met in the Hotel Besse on Friday morning. Members present
were: Earl Kauffman, Jr., L. P. Dittemore, L. P. Washburn, Irma Gene Nevins, Oran
Shearer, Sue Unruh, E. A, Thomas, Fritz Snodgrass, Bill Mifflin, Mildred Huddleston,
Helen Saum, Katherine Geyer, Geneva Millet, Edgar Schmidt, Ardis Hill, Merle Honre,
T. M. Evans, Hazel Cave, Strong Hinman, and Ralph Titus,