CIRCULAR.
TEACHERS FOR THE WEST.
The Board of National Popular Education has sent out ten classes of Female Teachers, numbering two hundred and forty-eight - five of whom are in Oregon. It will collect its eleventh class at Hartford, Conn., on the 19th of March next, and send them to the West on the 29th of April. The intervening six weeks will be occupied in a course of preparation, under the superintendence of Miss Nancy Swift, of South Hadley, Mass. The course will embrace, among other things - examinations ; lectures on the best methods of teaching ; on the organizing of schools ; on school government ; on moral and religious instruction in schools ; on the influence of teachers in the community ; on physiology as connected with the preservation of health ; exercises in composition ; examinations upon the lectures, and discussions of the subjects of them in the class ; religious exercises and social meetings. Instruction will be given in vocal music. Model Schools will be visited.
Ladies desiring to join the class will address written applications to Miss Swift, at South Hadley, Mass., previous to the 1st of March. Each application should state the age, residence, and religious denomination of the applicant ; the branches she can teach, and the length of time she has taught ; and should be accompanied by testimonials in regard to her education, capacity to teach, natural peculiarities and moral and religious character. No other qualifications can compensate for the want of good sense, good temper, and decided piety. Some experience in teaching is indispensable ; a capacity to sing is very important. There is an increasing demand for instruction in music on the piano, and in other ornamental branches.
Applicants will have seasonable notice of their acceptance or non-acceptance. The accepted teachers will be expected at Hartford promptly on the 19th of March. On arriving, they will take hacks (for which but 25 cents can be demanded) to the "Orphan Asylum," the building prepared for their reception, where they will board in common with the Superintendent, at an expense to them of $1,75 per week. In cases of decided merit, where there is a manifest inability to defray this expense, aid will be given from the funds of the Board. The course of instruction is gratuitous. We shall defray their traveling expenses to the places of their destination. Should they at any time have the ability and desire to refund this, it will be used in sending out more teachers. We expect them to continue teaching at least two years, should health permit.
The teachers will be sent to places where arrangements will have been made for their reception and employment, with compensations which will, at least give them a respectable support. The knowledge we shall have of the places, and of the teachers, will enable us to assign them positions to which they shall be found best adapted, and where they may be the most acceptable and useful. We desire to have them come into full sympathy with the great objects of our Board, and enter the fields of labor assigned them, in the spirit of consecration to the work of doing good.
Applications from the West for teachers of the next class, should be addressed as early as the middle of March, to "The Committee for selecting Teachers, Hartford, Conn." They should state the branches to be taught, the compensation per annum, besides, board, and the name of the person who will receive the teacher on her arrival.
WILLIAM SLADE,
Cor. Sec'y. and General Agent of the Board.Cleveland, Ohio, January 8th, 1852.