Principles of Teaching

The question of application.--The matter a complex one.--Various conceptions of the term as it affects the intellect, the emotions, or the will.--Application may be immediate or...

Having discussed the organization of a lesson together with the formulation of the aim, let us now turn to the problem of illustrating and supplementing a lesson. In organizing...

The causes of individual differences.--Norsworthy and Whitley on the significance of parentage.--The teacher's obligation to know parents.--The influence of sex.--Environment as...

Character, a great power in conversion.--Our concern the converted teacher and also the converted pupil.--The converted teacher believes what he teaches.--The converted teacher...

Back in 1916 the writer of these chapters was invited to address a group of teachers on the subject of discipline. This particular lecture came toward the end of a series of lec...

Each organization within the Church follows regularly its own course of study. At the beginning of the year it sets out upon a prescribed subject subdivided according to the num...

The question of method raised.--Danger of an entire disregard of method.--The case of the "born" teacher.--Sound pedagogy largely a matter of common sense.--Danger of being comm...

Everybody is like everybody else in this--that everybody is different from everybody else. Having discussed how all men enjoy a common heritage by way of native endowments, let...

Interest should be inherent in the lesson taught.--An illustration of "dragged in" interest.--Interest and the "easy" idea.--A proper interpretation of interest.--How to make th...

Taking Stock.--Miss Stevens' study on questioning.--Miss Stevens quoted.--Various types of questions: a. The review question; b. The fact question; c. The leading question; d. T...

The steps involved in the preparation of a lesson: The aim; organization; illustration; application; questions.--Problems involved in the presentation of a lesson: The point of...

The "pull" of a good class.--The appeal of an attractive classroom.--Making it "our room."--The teacher and class spirit.--Capitalizing on the leadership of the class.--Stimulat...

Teaching a complex art.--What teaching is not.--What teaching is.--What it involves.--Presentation of facts.--Organization and evaluation of knowledge.--Interpretation and elabo...

The possibility of growth in teaching.--How to develop spirituality: a. By cultivating the spirit of prayer; b. By leading a clean life; c. By obeying the principles of the Gosp...

Having listed the native tendencies generally, we might well now consider them as they manifest themselves at the various stages of an individual's development. As already indic...

The Joys that attend Teaching: Enrichment of the spirit.--Guarantee of the teacher's own growth and development.--Restraining and uplifting influence on the moral character of t...

To set about to cultivate separate qualities would be rather a discouraging undertaking. As a matter of fact, many of the characteristics named really overlap, while others are...

"And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto his people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the ki...

Importance of Child Study to teachers.--Teaching both a social and an individual process.--A Child's characteristics--his birthright.--What the nervous system is.--Types of orig...

Individual differences and interest.--What makes for interest.--Interest begets interest.--Preparation is a great guarantee.--Knowledge of the lives of boys and girls a great he...

Attention the mother of learning.--Gregory quoted.--The fact of attention in the Army.--What attention is.--Illustrations.--Attention and interest.--The three types of attention...

Preparing a lesson is no easy matter, particularly for those teachers who are new to the calling. There are those, of course, for whom reading an assigned chapter through consti...

Two illustrations of the value of an aim.--Significance of the aim in religious training.--Inadequacy of eleventh-hour preparation.--The teacher's obligation to see through fact...

We may stress the sacred obligation of the teacher; we may discuss in detail mechanical processes involved in lesson preparation; we may analyze child nature in all of its compl...

"And again, I command thee that thou shalt pray vocally as well as in thy heart; yea, before the world as well as in secret, in public as well as in private." (Doc. & Cov., Sec....