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The Oracle 05/26/1936, Gorham Normal School

Oracle, The (1931-1941)

Poetry Club Presents One Act Play "The Little Miracle" -- Spring Formal A Success -- Gorham Has A Birthday -- The Point System At Gorham Normal -- Mental Shock-Absorbers - Faculty Facts -- Mr. Dubbs Addresses Library Club -- Athletics -- Alumni News

Book Selection For A Teachers College Library, Robert E. Mcconnell

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

The selection of books and the distribution of library funds are considerations which call for the continuous attention of the college administrator. This is especially so in the case of teachers colleges because they are of recent development and are limited as to funds. Both time and money are essential to the building up of a library of quality and quantity. As compared with the well established liberal arts college, teachers colleges are at a disadvantage in that the former existed fifty years before the latter.

Extending The Environment: Before The Trip And After; The Trip; Eight Days, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Elizabeth Whitney Walther, Elsa Euland

69 Bank Street

Volume 1, Number 8, May 1935

Detailed description of Bank Street's "Long Trip" to Morgantown, West Virginia and Washington, D. C. in 1935.

"The trip to West Virginia and Washington in which is described in this issue of 69 Bank Street, first by a student teacher and then by a staff member, was part of our year's work with the student teachers on "environment" - part of an attempt to get in first-hand contact with some of the major work patterns and their accompanying psychological patterns which characterize our current American culture" -- Lucy Sprague Mitchell

Making A Teachers College Program Comprehensive, Robert E. Mcconnell

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

The purpose of the undergraduate teachers college is to educate young men and women for teaching in the elementary and secondary schools. Curriculum makers should arrange the courses of instruction and activities so that the student will be directed to do those things which he will be called upon to do in his profession and in his life after school. The curriculum of the teachers college is the fountainhead from which new ideas and materials for the public schools should flow. A heavy responsibility has been delegated to it.

The Modern Teacher: From The Unpublished Writings Of Harriet M. Johnson, Harriet M. Johnson

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 2, November 1934

Harriet Johnson's brief papers focusing on the central theme of what kind of person a child needs for a teacher.

The Oracle 08/09/1934, Gorham Normal School

Oracle, The (1931-1941)

The Demonstration School -- The Summer Session of 1934 -- Leisure Time -- Recreational Activities -- Calendar

The Oracle 06/11/1934, Gorham Normal School

Oracle, The (1931-1941)

Hon. Bertram E. Packard, to be Commencement Speaker -- Banquet to Mark the Beginning of Commencement Services -- Graduation -- Open-House Day -- Bird Study Class Enjoys Trip to Higgins Beach -- Campus Changes -- Athletics

Harriet M. Johnson: Pioneer 1867-1934, Lucy Sprague Mitchell

Books

Harriet Johnson's life and work as described by her long time colleague Lucy Sprague Mitchell.

Relative Scholastic Success Of College Students From High Schools Of Varying Sizes, Leonard Lee Hudson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Education in America has made substantial growth in its various phases. No factor has been more marked than in the secondary field. The South was tardy in establishing a systematic scheme owing to the devastation of a Civil War and the misunderstandings natural to a reconstruction period. Many forces for the improvement of the secondary field in this section are now accomplishing wonderful results. Accrediting associations to investigate, recommend, and regulate certain practices, different divisions of the state department of education to supervise and inspect, research organizations, graduate schools, and school authorities are adding to the fund of knowledge regarding …

The Teaching Of Reading In The Fourth Grade, Anne V. Thomas

Bachelors’ Theses

The ability to read rapidly and comprehensively is being recognized more and more by people in all walks of life. Reading is essentially a thought getting process therefore possession of good thought reading ability makes it possible for one to enrich his own life, become more efficient in his chosen work and be of greater service to the world in which he lives. Society demands that we know how to read in order to meet certain definite social needs. The ability to read is practically universal. The child being a born imitator wishes to do what he sees his elders …

An Experiment In Remedial Reading In A Second Grade, Harriett M. Gaffney

Bachelors’ Theses

Every teacher finds a great range of capacities and abilities in her room. She finds that although some children comprehend what they read, they read much too slowly. She finds that others may read rapidly but not get the thought from what they read. She finds that some may e able to follow printed directions well but are inefficient in getting the complete thought from narrative material.

The Oracle 05/23/1933, Gorham Normal School

Oracle, The (1931-1941)

"The China Shop" Presented by Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs -- Gorham Students Attend Convention at New York City During Easter Vacation -- State Commissioner of Education, Dr. Bertram E. Packard, Sends Message to Gorham Normal School -- Alumni and Exchange -- Athletics -- Industrial Arts at Gorham

The Oracle 05/12/1932, Gorham Normal School

Oracle, The (1931-1941)

Glee Club Presents Operetta Mam'zelle Taps -- Washington Bicentennial Pageant Presented by Senior Class -- Rural Sociology Play -- Mr. Libby Addresses the Students -- The School Library -- Athletics

The County Supervisor And The Beginning Teacher, May L. Wood

Bachelors’ Theses

Rural schools are unmistakably a real and integral part of our national system of education. Our educators have long been directing their best efforts towards improving methods of education, attitudes and standards. But unfortunately, our rural schools have not been able to partake sufficiently of all the good to be derived from these studies. Non-scholastic influences are operating against their best efficiency. An analysis of these non-scholastic influences is the purpose of this thesis.

This is not to be considered in any manner an arraignment of the rural schools as such. Rather, it is because of an appreciation of the …

The Oracle 02/12/1932, Gorham Normal School

Oracle, The (1931-1941)

Russell Hall Dedicated with Impressive Exercises -- Honorable Payson Smith Speaks -- Athletics -- Alumni and Exchange

Evaluating Student Teaching, Robert E. Mcconnell

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

Conditions vary relative to the effectiveness of directed student teaching in normal schools and teachers colleges. The activities range all the way from poorly guided observation on the one hand to careful demonstration and directed teaching on the other. But even in the latter cases there is still room for improvement in the guidance and evaluation of student teaching. This is due to several reasons, among which should be included the difficulty of analyzing personality, the lack of definite applications of educational psychology, and the almost total absence of objectivity in the measurement of teaching skill.

The Teaching Of Sixth Grade Reading And Its Significance, Lena M. Weltzien

Bachelors’ Theses

The program outlined in this paper includes a sequence of objectives that must be kept in mind by the Sixth Grade teacher in developing habits of reading and study in the pupils. Carefully selected subject matter is essential. Next is skill in methods of presentation, in order that the work of both teacher and pupil will be made more enjoyable and more effective. The child must be studied. Efficiency on the part of the pupils is the goal.

Piano Course: Grade 8, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Compositions, number 801 through 860

Discipline As A Moral Issue In The Elementary School, Jeanette M. Whalen

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to point out how discipline is still a big problem for the inexperienced teacher, and that as a moral issue it is also a perplexing problem confronting the experienced teacher. In the first chapter it shows that a good understanding of psychology is necessary to approach the problem of discipline and that the teacher must have the qualities necessary to make her a leader and an inspiration to those in her charge. In the following chapters the method of instilling good morals and producing healthy moral characters is brought out by means of co-ordination …

Health Work In The Elementary And Grammar Grades And Its Motivation, Alice Thies

Bachelors’ Theses

If we examine a school curriculum made a half century ago, we shall find that the course in health instruction at that time consisted of lessons on bodily structure. Upon examination of later curricula, we shall find a gradual change in content to that of health instruction. Within the last few years, added knowledge concerning nutrition and growth, physical defects with their causes and results, and mental hygiene, has led to the realization that there must be new objectives and principles for the course in school hygiene. By referring to recent books, magazines, and addresses on this subject, I have …

Piano Course: Grade 6, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 6, Advanced B: Lessons and Tests, number 101 through 120

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1926-1927, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1926-1927 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, biographical information about and images of faculty, and tuition information.

The Relationship Of Principal And Teacher. A Study Of Some Ways Of Improving Teachers In Service, Lillian Caryl Thies

Bachelors’ Theses

The title of this thesis is, ''The Relationship Between Principal and Teacher". Such a title may cover a great field, and instead of a single thesis, volumes might be written adequately to review it. I must therefore narrow the subject down, and after giving a general view of the position of the elementary school principal in the educational field and a sketch of his various powers and duties, I shall consider in more detail some ways in which he may help the elementary teacher to grow and to improve in service. There is gathering upon the subject, "The Principalship", a …

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1925-1926, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1925-1926 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, biographical information about and images of faculty, and tuition information.

The Unseen Side Of Child Life: For The Guardians Of Young Children, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Table of Contents

Introduction

Processional

Visitors Form the Outside World

Mastering the Machine

The Invisible Bridge

The Child's Art World

Recessional

Present Day Tendencies

How Are We Educating Our Young Girls?, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

From the Introduction to When Children Err: A Book for Young Mothers, by Elizabeth Harrison

Harrison discusses the way in which past educational thought, as pointed out by Herbert Spencer, does not prepare individuals for motherhood, to which she describes the importance and necessity to do so.

The Montessori Method And The Kindergarden, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Report commissioned in 1914 by the U.S. Bureau of Education on a study of Dr. Maria Montessori's schools in Italy, by Miss Elizabeth Harrison. Describes Maria Montessori's contribution to the education of young children and compares her methods with that of the Froebelian Kindergarten method.

The Kindergarten Journal, Vol.6 No.4 1910-1911, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Includes the editorial, "Kindergarten Festivals", by Elizabeth Harrison on page 151 which describes the festivals that she believes are appropriate to celebrate in the Kindergarten setting, including: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hero Day, Easter, and the children's birthdays.

Two Children Of The Foothills, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Preface:

If this record of a happy year spent with two children will help to make some other woman study more earnestly Froebel's great book I shall be satisfied. To any in whose heart it may awaken this impulse I would recommend Mr. Denton J. Snider's "Mother's-Play-Songs", and Miss Susan E. Blow's "Letters to a Mother" from both of which books I have been permitted to quote freely. I wish also to acknowledge my obligations to D. Appleton and Company for their courtesy in allowing me avail myself of the illustrations from their "Mottos and Commentaries of Froebel's Mother-Play-Book", which …

How Shall We Best Conserve Our Nation's Moral Forces, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

"What are the moral resources of a nation? Is not the greatest of these character? Say what we will, deep down in the heart of each and everyone of us we know that material prosperity is not the highest form of success..."

-Elizabeth Harrison