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Building The School Entertainment Day By Day: Cooperating Rather Than Competing In Play, Jennie Moore

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

To justify any school entertainment as an educational instrument, it must be rich in the learnings gained by day in the school through careful teacher guidance. How well does the average athletic meet express sound educational practice?

Building The School Entertainment Day By Day: Sharing Experiences With The Community, Jennie Moore

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

"What school experiences will my pupils enjoy sharing with their friends?" you ask yourself. As you think of the people in the community, it seems probable that many of them learned to read by the word method, that they mastered spelling by the valiant repetition of letters, that history to them was a mass of names and dates, and that their recesses were listless breaks in the routine of classes. To see their children or their neighbor's children doing happily that which was drudgery to them will be a rare treat. And so arises the idea for your first school …

1933 Commencement Of Washington State Normal School 1928, Central Washington University

Commencement Programs

A commencement program from graduation ceremonies at Central Washington University.

Marguerite "Carp" Carpenter Scrapbook, Central Washington University

Scrapbooks

Marguerite Carpenter was born in Massachusetts in 1906 and attended the Washington State Normal School in 1926 and 1927. She was the "Yell Queen," as cheerleaders were known then, during her time at the Washington State Normal School. She went on to teach Physical Education and coach girls basketball at Yakima High School in the 1930's.

Scrapbook made in 1926 and 1927. It contains many photos of her friends and photos of sporting events at the Washington State Normal School. There are personal notes with the photographs and notes made by guests and friends.

This scarpbook was donated to the …

Our State Of Washington, Herbert C. Fish

History Faculty Scholarship

This brief book details the early history of the state of Washington, and includes suggestions for discussion questions and projects related to many topics in Washington State history.

Commencement Of Washington State Normal School, Central Washington University

Commencement Programs

A commencement program from graduation ceremonies at Central Washington University.

Institutional Management And Home Economist, George H. Black

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

We are on the threshold of a new technique in education for adults as well as for little children. The chief feature of the new technique, as opposed to the old and now conventional type, is that it is based upon participation while the old depends chiefly upon rationalization.

Are We Developing Efficiency In Method?, Amanda Katherine Hebeler

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

Our newspapers and periodicals frequently give space for lengthy discussions concerning the weaknesses of our schools. Few of these critics, however, ever consider the gigantic task of modern education with the manifold duties that are forced upon it by a society which is constantly changing and becoming increasingly complex.

Making History Human, Herbert C. Fish

History Faculty Scholarship

This article describes several basic tenets of teaching history in an interesting and engaging manner.

Ellensburg Normal Vs. Bellingham Normal, Central Washington University

CWU Athletics Events Programs

Program from a Football Game. This was the first game played at Waldo Field in Bellingham in 1923. Ellensburg Normal School vs. Bellingham Normal School.

More Kindergartens In Washington, Clara Meisner

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

A western state, California, has he distinction of leading the states of the Union in percentage of children in public school kindergartens. What California has done in such marked degree has also been done in son'ie degree in many other states. It is to be regretted that the state of Washington is not abreast with California and other progressive states in number of public kindergartens.

Project Teaching Of Manual Training, Henry J. Whitney

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

Recent numbers of this magazine and other good publications have emphasized the necessity that manual training teachers have a well recognized theory back of their work, and further, that the value of the work of any teacher is in direct ratio to the clearness with which this theory is comprehended and followed in practice. A project is any activity purposed by an individual and by him carried through. Project teaching of manual training is the most difficult kind of teaching, but withall the most fruitful, for it furnishes the opportunity to develop those qualities of manhood that our democratic society …

Projects In Printing, Edward G. Anderson

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

The value of printing as offered in the curriculum of the graded school has been demonstrated in the training department of the Washington State Normal School at Ellensburg. Students in the seventh and eighth grade classes founded the publication The School News in 1918-1919.

Twenty-Ninth Annual Commencement Washington State Normal School, Central Washington University

Commencement Programs

A commencement program from graduation ceremonies at Central Washington University.

Twenty--Seventh Annual Commencement Exercise Washington State Normal School, Central Washington University

Commencement Programs

A commencement program from graduation ceremonies at Central Washington University.

A Review Of The Pedagogical Studies In The Teaching Of Spelling, Mary A. Grupe

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

Despite the fact that a few far-seeing men have, from the early years of the eighteenth century, inveighed against the dominance of spelling and the "cruel drudgery" it entailed upon the learner, the subject remained an independent discipline far into the nineteenth century. To be able to spell was the criterion whereby to judge the educated man and so ingrained did this become in the popular mind that even to this day our grandfathers, nay our fathers, dubiously shake their heads because spelling no longer occupies a conspicuous place on the schoolroom program and because, as they insist, the rising …

Second Annual Commencement Of Washington State Normal School, Central Washington University

Commencement Programs

A commencement program from graduation ceremonies at Central Washington University.

First Annual Commencement Of Washington State Normal School, Central Washington University

Commencement Programs

A commencement program from graduation ceremonies at Central Washington University.