Category: Teaching & Education
The power to read is so ordinary a part of our mental equipment that we rarely question its meaning or its origin. All common things pass us unchallenged, however marvellous they may be. We take little note of our sunrises and sunsets, the hill range which we see every day fro...
The problem of teaching would be solved could the teacher know how her well-devised plan of action really affects her pupil. Patiently and persistently she follows her foreordai...
11. CHAPTER XI.In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flowers I am in the present; with the books I...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The study of birds has become so common as a part of school work, that suggestions upon the subject may be trite and superfluous. For the teachers who have not yet attempted suc...
6. CHAPTER VI.How can children be taught to read aloud clearly, distinctly, and with feeling, so as to clearly convey the author’s thought and to give pleasure to the listener? “My pupils do...
10. CHAPTER X.It is not uncommon to find the lists of words which precede or follow the lessons of the so-called “regular reader” used as the only basis of the study of the lesson. This would...
2. CHAPTER II.Learning to read is an important part of the children’s training, but learning _what_ to read is quite as important. A child’s mastery of the printed page may leave him with the...
4. CHAPTER IV.In our emphasis of certain phases of the new education, there is a tendency to swing away from the use of the text-book, so that the children depend largely upon the teacher’s o...
7. CHAPTER VII.Every new lesson should be built upon and fastened to the children’s past experience. If they have no knowledge of cows, we must introduce the subject accordingly. If they have...
1. CHAPTER I.The power to read is so ordinary a part of our mental equipment that we rarely question its meaning or its origin. All common things pass us unchallenged, however marvellous the...
9. CHAPTER IX.Children delight in pictures. Every child-lover knows how intently and with what delight the baby’s eyes gaze upon the pages of the beloved picture book, long before the words w...
12. CHAPTER XII._There is another view of reading, which, though it is obvious enough, is seldom taken, I imagine, or at least acted upon; and that is, that in the course of our reading we shou...
5. CHAPTER V.Two problems confront the teacher of little children in the ordinary school-room. Children coming from different homes, with various training and environment, do not always brin...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The list is intended to be suggestive merely. Nearly all the poems are well known, and need only to be recalled to the mind of the teacher. They can readily be found at any good...