Excerpt from Educational Administration Supervision, Vol. 1 of 7: Including Teacher Training, January, 1921 One reason why we are justified in discussing a state plan Of rating teachers is found in the attempt of our State Department of Public Instruction to Operate a teacher placement bureau. The proper discharge of this function is impossible unless the State Department has definite, reliable, and comprehensive data as to the merits Of great numbers of teachers. In fact, the ideal in placement can be reached only when the State Department has on file such data regarding every teacher in the state. It now happens that those teachers are most likely to be promoted who give most attention to securing better places, while' the most faithful and eficient, who do the work of each day without reference to per sonal recognition, remain unrecognized, and at last retire with the conviction that Merit does not win in teaching. Our state mar chinery for promoting teachers can not be made inclusive without an army of inspectors, and that is lacking. The substitute pro gram is a uniform method of rating teachers, so that superintend ents shall be speaking a common language, when they endorse teachers to the State Department or to each other. The endorse ments now submitted in behalf of teachers come too often from those who know little about the ones endorsed, and they frequently omit the things we most wish to know. Before attempting to present a rating plan adapted to South Dakota conditions, we may remark upon the attitude taken toward rating plans where they are in use, and a few of the administrative questions that arise in that connection. Most of the systems using a score card for teachers report that the teachers are friendly to it. Of sixteen cities reporting on this, only two indicate general oppo sirion or skepticism on the part of the teaching force. This is nor strange. NO plan can long survive in a system if the teachers are opposed to it. N o doubt the absence of a rating card in many systems is a result of the unfavorable attitude of the teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.