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Some Evidence Of The Interests Of Eighth Grade Children In The Materials Of Science., Cora B. Burlingame 1872-1958

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Program For Seven-Year-Olds: In A Suburban School, In A City School; New Books For Children, Evelyn Beyer, Lorna C. Reed, Jessie Stanton, Ellen W. Steele

69 Bank Street

Volume 2 Number 3, December, 1935

School life and activities for seven-year-olds in the suburbs and the city.

Also includes publications relevant to children between six and ten years old obtainable at 69 Bank Street.

A Comparative Study Of The New-Type & Old-Type Assignment, Mary Tanner

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The assignment is the teacher's one best chance of stimulating children with a desire for the work that is to follow. For this reason it should be carefully and methodically given and should be definite and clear. Study increases in intelligence somewhat in the degree that the main or salient features of the material to be studied are emphasized in the assignments.

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

The History Workbook, Helen Porter

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this thesis is to determine whether or not the use of the workbook is justified, and if so in what a good technique consists. Several workbooks have been examined in this attempt, and books and magazines secured from the Milwaukee Public Library and the Marquette University Library have furnished the writer with much of the material used.

A Summer Program For Five Year Olds, Jessie Stanton

69 Bank Street

Volume 1, Number 7, April 1935

"The Institute of Euthenics at Vassar College runs a summer session of six weeks for parents and children. In this number Jessie Stanton, a director of the Harriet Johnson Nursery School, 69 Bank Street, New York, describes her work with five- and six-year-old children in the Institute School for Little Children."

The Contribution Of Adolescents To The Literature Of Escape, Mildred Gignoux Finke

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 6, March 1935

"Presents the writing of adolescents in terms of the emotional release which it has afforded children."

The Taking And Use Of Records, Louise P. Woodcock

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 5, February, 1935

Describes the record taking process and the types of observational records the teachers at the Harriet Johnson Nursery School were taking. Includes excerpts of observations.

Play Making In The School Group; The Use Of Pantomime In Developing Acting Techniques, Ellen W. Steele, Charlotte Perry

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 4, January 1935

"Play making in the school group" describes the kind of play that grows through the school experience (in this case, a field trip) and takes form in the school life."

"The use of pantomime in developing acting techniques" describes the teacher's first steps in guiding young children beyond pretend play toward dramatic form through the use of pantomime."

An Activity Program In An Elementary School., Bessie Terrell Meyer 1890-1988

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Financing Of Education In Homestead Areas, Lester Turnbaugh

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Some explanation is necessary of the method of procedure in compiling material for this thesis. The first step was really taken seven years ago. At that time the writer interviewed state officials at Sacramento, California, in the hope of obtaining state aid for educational finance in the Tule Lake section of the Klamath Irrigation Project. The Governor, the department of education, and the finance department were all consulted, but no legal way was discovered of using state money for the erection of school buildings in the district mentioned. Some county money was available for payment of teachers’ salary, but none …

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.

A Study Of The Critical Factors That Affect The Achievement Of Probation Students, Eurena Dawson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the purpose of this study to present the results of an investigation of the high school and college records of the 600 students who have been on probation at the Western Kentucky State Teachers College during the school years 1932-32, 1932-33 and 1933-34; and, if possible, to set up some standards by which these students may be given the advice and guidance that will best serve them in their preparation for life.

Comparative Attainment In Typewriting Skill Under Two Methods Of Conducting Practice, George L. Nicholson

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The question to be answered in this thesis is: Is it better to require a student of typewriting to do a comparatively small amount of practice work, with a high degree of accuracy and some perfect copy work, or to require him to do a larger amount of practice work with a lower degree of accuracy and no perfect copy work?

The Efficiency Of Laboratory Work In Geography, Fred Edwards

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Great sums of money are expended annually for the upkeep and equipment of laboratories that are used only for teaching, and yet there is little in the way of experimental data to indicate whether the expenditure of time or money is justified.

A Study Of Manuals For Teachers., Alice Corwin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Catalog, 1933-1934, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1933-1934 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

Silent Work-Type Reading And Activities In The Fourth Period, Audrey Gudex

Bachelors’ Theses

Reading has been divided into various periods because children pass through different stages of development in acquiring mature reading habits. The elementary school must provide appropriate training at each stage of development.

Aims And Objectives In The Teaching Of Upper Grade English, Etta Rosar

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of the writer of this thesis to show that there is an awakening consciousness, among school administrators and authorities in the field of English teaching, of the need of clear and definite aims in the teaching of language, and to present some of the aims and objectives of upper grade language teaching at present in force in various school systems

Silent Reading In The Intermediate Grades, Helen Selle

Bachelors’ Theses

There is a very close relationship between reading and the other school subjects. It is most closely related to the children's daily experiences, and should be taught in connection with them. It is essential in every content subject, as a means of getting information and pleasure.

The Teaching Of Current Events, Bernard C. Wiczynski

Bachelors’ Theses

The method of teaching current events received little or no attention by educators until after the World War. Teacher training institutions offered no courses in the subject; textbooks on methods failed to treat current events, because as a study it had not been given a formal place in the curriculum; and as a consequence, the classroom teacher, if she taught the subject at all, devoted but a few minutes a week from the history class to this branch of study. Because of the lack of proper guidance, current events was, as a rule, poorly taught.

Modern Concepts Of The Teaching Of Geography, Cora S. Peterson

Bachelors’ Theses

Geography as a subject has had a very slow growth in comparison with other subjects of the school curriculum in our schools as well as in European institutions of learning - its growth has, indeed, been slow - from a descriptive stage, through the present pseudoscientific stage, to the ideal stage of the future: that of a philosophical science. This coming science occupies a most important position in a well balanced scheme of education. It should, therefore, be taught in such a manner, particularly in the elementary schools, that it will be productive of that wide, deep, and practical culture …

Catalog, 1932-1933, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1932-1933 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

Tests & Study Guides In Literature For Secondary Schools, Ida Nance

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

When the time came to choose a thesis subject, I immediately said Objective Tests Applicable to Collateral Reading. Having been told "nothing has been done along that line - almost nothing at all," I decided to extend my investigations to include any and all tests in high-school literature - tests for comprehension and appreciation, survey and achievement tests, and tests designed for collateral reading. Each phase of the study has been interesting, but I fear that I have remained somewhat partial to the unit first begun and have perhaps given it a bit more consideration than the other divisions have …

A Comparative Study Of The Relative Achievement Of The Training School & Non-Training School Pupils, Ruth Borders

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The writer, having been employed as a critic or supervising teacher in a city training school, has a personal interest in student teaching and student teachers. Frequently patrons voice their opinions concerning the work done in the training school. While many parents are well pleased with the results of student teaching, there are some who believe that the type of work given in the training school is inferior to that done in the public schools.

The major purpose of this study is to endeavor to answer, to some extent, a few of the many questions, arising from day to day, …

Is Formal Grammar Necessary In The High School?, Edward Ray

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study does not attempt to decide which is the better method of presenting grammar to the high school pupil; that is a question which would require much more extensive research to answer. We are interested primarily in determining and evaluating the success in college formal grammar of students who have had formal grammar in high school as compared with the success of those who have not had high school formal grammar. The study, therefore, is an attempt to show the differences existing in preparation for college formal grammar on the part of the students who have had high school …

Safety Education In The Elementary Grades, Lilly E. Schaefer

Bachelors’ Theses

It i the primary purpose of the school to enable the oncoming generation to adjust itself to the natural and social environment in which it must live and work. Managers of large industries are realizing more and more that the problem of industrial safety will not be solved until the idea of safety has been incorporated into the community life, that is; until safety instruction is given in the schools, and until safety is established in the thought and life of the people on the same basis as good health. The fact that two-thirds of all the accidental deaths occur …

Teaching Study Habits To Children In The Intermediate Grades, Marie Schneider

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis has been prepared in an endeavor to present the objectives of study, and to state effective methods for teaching study habits to children in the intermediate grades. A discussion of the universal need for direction in the formation of study habits, together with a consideration of the objectives of study compromises the first chapter. This is followed by a presentation of the physical conditions influencing study. The third chapter deals with general suggestions for training in study, while the fourth and fifth present type lessons and specific and tried methods.

The Development Of Study Habits In The Junior High School, Selma L. Wolters

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this thesis is to show how definite study habits may be developed in the Junior High School. With children coming from many outlying schools, different nationalities and correspondingly different environments and study methods, it is imperative that at the beginning of the school year, one makes a brief survey of the entire group, seeing what has been done, the difficulties which are to be removed and how best to deal with various students who do not seem to have the necessary background for the establishment of sound study habits. Many books and numerous chapters have been written …

Teaching Of General Science In The Junior High School, Joseph T. Petska

Bachelors’ Theses

In this age of science and materialism there is not in the writers opinion, a more enriching course in our high schools as is a well balanced, well organized course in general science! It is enriching because, if taught well, it functions in the lives of the learners, it bridges the gap between the life of the learner and his environment.

The writer feels that the work in general science is of great importance and is worthy of the best thought of those responsible for the details of the courses in this subject in the junior high school. In spite …