A brief course in the teaching process

THE AIM OF EDUCATION PAGES Education measured by differences brought about in individuals— Various statements of the aim—The individualistic point of view has been emphasized—Th...

Success in realizing the aim of education depends upon a clear realization of the conditioning factors—The increased responsibility of the school—The necessity for knowledge of...

Teaching a process of controlling adjustments—Types of adjustment—The common element in these situations, satisfaction—Types of attention corresponding to types of adjustment—Pa...

The necessity for drill—The question of motive—Clear ideas of the habit to be formed essential—Repetition with attention essential in drill work—Attention held by initial motive...

The importance of thinking—Preparation should end with statement of the problem by children—The gathering of data the work of pupils in so far as is possible—Suggestions for con...

The complete process of thought involves both induction and deduction—The frequency of deductive thinking—The teacher in relation to the thinking of children—Reflection—The prob...

Education should enable one to enjoy life—Power of appreciation should be developed in our schools—Necessity for power of appreciation on the part of the teacher—The relation of...

The importance of independent work—Children must become conscious of the methods which can be most efficiently employed—Statement of problem essential for study—Assignments—Chil...

An examination involves a review—A review a summary and a new view—Value of reviews—An abstract or topical outline a good review—A review by application—The only real test of th...

The weakness of this type of exercise as commonly conducted—The topical recitation—The value of outlines prepared by pupils—Pupils should learn how to use books—The danger of be...

The importance of good questions—Types of questions—A lack of scope a common fault in questions—Careful planning necessary—The novelty of the form in which the question is put i...

Social aim of education realized in the classroom—Motives commonly operating in schools—Children naturally work together—Changes in school work demanded by the aim of education—...

The importance of physical efficiency—The teacher should know something of the standards of lighting, heating, and ventilating—Right habits of posture under the control of teach...

Intellectual and moral training cannot be separated—School conditions offer advantages for moral training—Increased responsibility of schools for moral training—Individual diffe...

Class management as a means and as an end—Conditions under which management should result in habit—Situations which demand self-control—Pupil participation in school government—...

Necessity for planning work—Teacher’s lack of interest in work often repeated—Change in subject matter—Preparation, not inspiration, counts in teaching—Importance of good questi...

The purpose of supervision—Criticism, its various types—When to discuss work with supervisors—School exhibits—Visiting within and outside of the system in which one works—Examin...

The course of study as a taskmaster—The real purpose of the course of study—Provisions for minimum, alternative, and optional work—How the course of study may help the teacher—T...

Efficiency demands that we evaluate our results—Progress by the method of trial and success—Reasons why scientific work in education has progressed slowly—Results already achiev...

Education is worth just the difference it makes in the activities of the individual who has been educated. The question is not how many books did we compel the child to read; ho...

If it is essential that the teacher approach her work with a clear view of the ends which it is desirable for her to achieve, it is quite as necessary that she be conscious of t...

Education means change, growth, development. The process is one of adjustment in which the individual is not only affected by his environment, but is also capable, in turn, of c...

Many responses of thought and action must be reduced to an automatic basis. It is the function of the drill lesson to accomplish this result. In some schools this type of work h...

We are skeptical to-day of that sort of teaching which aims mainly to equip children with a body of accepted knowledge in order that they may some time find use for this body of...

The complete process of thought involves both induction and deduction. Every general principle, unless it is self-evident, must either be arrived at through the process of induc...

Education aims not only to enable one to avoid error, to discover truth, and to equip him with desirable habits, but also to develop the power to appreciate and to enjoy that wh...

That it is the main business of the teacher to render her services unnecessary cannot be too often reiterated. To be able to reason clearly one’s self; to have control of one’s...

The review or the examination, in so far as methods of teaching are concerned, present the same problem. We seek by means of exercises of this type to bring about a better organ...

The recitation lesson as commonly conducted consists in having children tell what they have read in their textbooks. Sometimes the teacher accepts or even demands that the pupil...

In all teaching much depends upon the skill with which the teacher stimulates and guides the class by means of the questions which she asks. Occasionally one finds a teacher who...

Emphasis has already been given to the social aim in education. This chapter will discuss in some detail the possibility of realizing this aim through the conduct of the recitat...

Intellectual development, and more especially intellectual efficiency, are conditioned in no mean degree by one’s physical condition. Schools have too frequently, and with justi...

Character building must always be recognized as a most important function of the school. It is a mistake to divorce the intellectual training of children from growth in morality...

In any discussion of class management it is necessary to distinguish clearly between organization and control as a means and as an end. Much of the discussion of school and clas...

The best teachers never reach the point where preparation for the day’s work is unnecessary. The teacher who stimulates her pupils to their best effort must herself be intereste...

Teachers are generally responsible in some measure to one or more supervisory officers. Those who control the schools believe that better work will be done because of the superv...

Teachers sometimes look upon the course of study merely as a demand made by those in control of the school system for a large amount of work to be accomplished. The course of st...

Efficiency in any line of human endeavor depends upon our ability to evaluate the results which are secured. No one would question the progress which has been made in education...

_c._ Stories of the preparatory period may be so managed as to form a real basis for later history—training in putting things together, in seeing simple relations, in developing...

[34] In proceeding to the part of the study that is necessarily largely composed of tables, it may be well to state the position of the author regarding the partial interpretati...

Pg 69: ‘a singe problem’ replaced by ‘a single problem’. Pg 113: ‘Professon Johnson’ replaced by ‘Professor Johnson’. Pg 136: ‘find situtions’ replaced by ‘find situations’. Pg...