Bulletin Volume 24-31 by United States Bureau of Education
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Author: United States Bureau of Education
Page Count: 358 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781236146465
File size: 8 Mb
Download Link: Bulletin Volume 24-31
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... abacus and thus "thinks" out his answer. The fact, however, that the child can not recall instantly the sum of 7 and 5 and that he has to " think" about it is clear evidence that the teacher has not been successful in her work, in this particular at least, for her methods should have made it unnecessary for the child to do any " thinking" about it. Indeed, within the field of the formal, "thinking" is out of place for the very purpose of making things automatic and habitual is to get rid of the necessity for thinking. On the other hand, many teachers of Columbia are holding the children responsible for the list of relationships among facts which the several textbooks set forth without sufficient (in some instances without any) class discussion participated in by all to make the generalizations by the several authors mean anything beyond dogmatic statements. The failure of many of the teachers of Columbia to recognize that there is this fundamental distinction to be drawn in both the content and method of the several subjects of the curriculum accounts for much poor teaching. There are teachers in the department, however, who, it should be stated, do differentiate between the formal and cultural subjects in this matter. The work of these stand out in the corps, but until the corps as a whole recognizes this distinction and seeks to employ it in practice there will not be that good team work which ought to be the desideratum of all supervision and which is based in considerable measure upon unity in aim and in general method. THE NEED OF ENRICHING MATERIAL. Doubtless one reason why not more oral class discussion of lively character was found either in the elementary schools or In the classes of high-school rank, though...
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