ADVERTISEMENTS
CHALK-MODELING.
Relief maps or representation of relief maps are absolutely essential to the intelligent teaching of geography. The most effective means that I have seen employed for the production of such maps is the chalk-modeling so long and successfully taught by Miss Ida C. Heffron. I can think of no other contribution to present text-books which would be of so great service to the teachers as a book from which they may learn chalk-modeling, to the end that any portion of a continent or country may be placed in relief before the eyes of the children on whatever scale the teacher desires.
I have known Miss Heffron’s work for the last fifteen years and commend it without reserve.
O. T. Bright, Chicago, Ill.
It gives me great pleasure to commend Miss Heffron’s work to the attention of school officers, and to school teachers who desire assistance along the lines of expression in school work. Her large practical experience in teaching children in all the grades of public school work, furnishes a substantial basis for most excellent instruction in her chosen field.
Whatever success may have attended the introduction of Nature Study into this school has been largely due to her intelligence and skill in directing the work in drawing, painting and modeling.
Wilbur S. Jackman, Teacher of Natural Science, Cook County Normal School.
The value of Drawing and Modeling as modes of expression cannot be over-estimated. Every subject taught in our schools gains new power and life, as the brush or pencil, the clay or tool, tells its own truth concerning it. Literature, History, Science and Geography gain an immensely added value: each one becomes a living thing if the teacher possess the power to illustrate her subject. In Geography especially, the Chalk-Modeling originated by Miss Heffron, while teacher of Drawing in the Cook County Normal School, is of incalculable value. In fact, to those in whose schools it has been introduced, the wonder is that pupils ever comprehend the subject without its revealing and interpreting aid.
Kate Starr Kellogg, Prin. of Lewis School, Englewood, Ill.