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Composition In The Upper Grades, Ozine L. Labine

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.

Organization And Administrative Relationships Of The Departments Of Physical Education And Health In Various Wisconsin High Schools, Joseph J. Kores

Bachelors’ Theses

The field of Physical Education is virtually a new field of endeavor. It has been coming into its rightful position in the field of Education so rapidly that our institutions of learning are wantonly neglectful of its importance.

The Board of Education of the State of Wisconsin requires that all High Schools shall have a Physical Education program. As a rule all High Schools fulfill this requirement. But as there are no specifications enforced, as to how the Physical Education program should be carried on, each school organizes its program according to its own tastes.

This survey clearly indicates the …

Teaching History In The Fourth Grade Of The Milwaukee Public Schools, Verna C. Devine

Bachelors’ Theses

Rapidly changing industrial conditions and the crowding of our cities have placed a new emphasis on man's contacts with his fellow man. We live in such close interdependence in a world grown small through such factors as steamships, radios, and airplanes that our social adjustments must of necessity differ widely from those of our ancestors whose homes were almost self sustaining. Our schools have realized the necessity for a changed curriculum and are placing more and more emphasis on the social studies. But we are still asking ourselves: What shall we teach? And what place shall history have in the …

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 Health Of The School Child With Special Reference To Heart Cases, Annette G. West

Bachelors’ Theses

The first of the generally accepted objectives of education is health. The importance to the community of the health of its children can hardly be over-emphasized when it is fully realized that the children of to-day are the bread winners and the parents of to-morrow. The health of our children is the foundation upon which the welfare of the community depends. To conserve the health of the child is as much a function of the state as it is to conserve the natural resources. To investigate the evils that exist and to remedy all that may be remedied without transgressing …

Spelling Procedures, Helen Johnson

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of the teaching of spelling is to give the child a writing vocabulary to fit his needs.

Play And Recreation For The Handicapped Child, The Crippled Child, The Blind Child, The Mentally Deficient Child, Mildred Bistorius Mallory

Bachelors’ Theses

To the child play is life itself, serious all-absorbing. By play he lives and grows. Through play he develops his own personality and aptitude to get along well in society. Most of us do not take children’s play seriously enough. We are apt to think of play as wasting time and forgetting the duties of life. Probably this is the result of our Puritan traditions. Probably it is our sense of the responsibilities of life. Yet whatever it might be, we still accept with hesitation the fact so seriously emphasized by our scientific teachers of childhood, that play for the …

Education Of Crippled Children, Alice Mcquillan

Bachelors’ Theses

In the last century education has become America's largest single business. Only within the last two decades has society*s obligations to under-privileged groups of children been recognized. This is especially true of those termed cripples. Today, as never before everyone recognizes the man-made dangers for children which result from traffic conditions, and also the cripples made so from disease. Even the average business man demands that these handicapped children be given a chance to develop their mental and if possible their physical facilities.

In the following chapters I wish to make a plea for the physically handicapped children.

Reading In The Intermediate Grades, Lillian L. Kyro

Bachelors’ Theses

The past few years have brought many vital changes in the teaching of reading in the intermediate grades.

Formerly the objectives in reading for the intermediate grades were not much different from those of the primary grades. According to the traditional point of view, the methods which proved successful in the primary grades ought to be continued in the intermediate grades. To the teacher who holds this point oi view the later grades present no new problems for solution; the problems of the earlier grades still remain except that they present themselves now in an enlarged and intensified form.

The History Of Education In Kansas Since 1914, Charles H. Brooks

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The general problem of this thesis is to outline and to discuss a section of the history of education in Kansas, beginning with the year 1914 and extending to 1932, and to posit its evolutionary character in its proper setting.

A Survey Of Adult Education In Northern Europe Since The World War, Eva Mcconnell Cook

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Adult education is for all people in all time. The expression of its workings le diverse, determined by locality and tradition. The study of adult education in northern Europe since the World Far is based on the belief that "the world is in need of stronger and more clearly conceived ideals of conscious effort In the service of humanity. The salvation of society must be mined from its depths".

Intramural Athletics For The Small High School, Maurice R. Wood

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Intramural athletics, in the small high school should be a program of sports for all. The small high school with its limited financial and athletic equipment will do well to recognize the general trend of physical education by developing an athletic program of "activity for activity's sake".

Working in the physical education department of small high schools for the past four years, the writer is aware that there is a need for a program of athletics for all. The program presented in this thesis is the result of investigation and practical experimentation with intramural athletics for boys in the Live …

The Legal Concept Of The Teacher's Contract, Wanda I. Johnson

Graduate Thesis Collection

The major purpose of this study is to determine the nature and characteristics of the contractual relationships between school boards of education and public school teachers. Controversies between the board and the teacher have frequently arisen and have often been carried to the courts. Courts have been called upon to settle issues which deal with the status of existing between the board and the teacher, and thereby do exert an influence upon the priviledges or denials, allowed or disallowed when contracting parties make such agreements. This study deals with the action of the courts, and the decisions of the judges …

A Survey Of The Activities Of The Parent-Teacher Association In Illinois, Nettie Jacobs

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The History Of The Catholic School Library In The United States, Eva Mary Perry

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Modern Trend Of Art Education In The Elementary Schools, Frances C. Mcgarty

Bachelors’ Theses

Art Education provides for the enrichment of the life of the child, satisfying his creative instincts and his natural love for beauty.

The Teaching Of Current Events, Bernard C. Wiczynski

Bachelors’ Theses

The method of teaching current events received little or no attention by educator 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.

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.

What Is The Gifted Child?, Jessie R. Pendergast

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this study is to identify the gifted. As it is to them that the world must look for progress, their identification should become the most important of all social arrangements so that they may not become corrupted by luxury or starved by poverty. This selection is most important. As general intelligence is not to be determined from external symptoms but from the quality of thinking, the most satisfactory methods of identifying the gifted are by means of those characteristics which distinguish them as a group. These characteristics may be determined through reactions in general intelligence tests and …

The Teaching Of Literature In The Primary Grades, Mildred Wasserman

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.

The Development Of Technical Education In The Chicago High Schools, James E. Shine

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Courses Offered In Home Economics In Representative Junior High Schools In The United States, Lenora Ida Larson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Directly Supervised Versus Indirectly Supervised Typewriting, Mary Brendan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Current Practice In Vocational Guidance For Girls In Catholic Four-Year High Schools, Ignata Biehn

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Grade Levels And Relative Importance Of Etiquette Topics For Presentation In Junior And Senior High Schools, Isabelle A. Donahue

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A History Of Borden Institute, James C. Standiford

Graduate Thesis Collection

This study has for its purpose the preserving for posterity of a brief account of one of the small private schools of Southern Indiana.  Too frequently, perhaps, an institution like a flower, as expressed by Thomas Gray in his "Elegy," "is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air".  This may have been true of Borden Institute which was founded out of an unselfish desire and in the spirit of service to mankind.

Entrance Requirements Of Seven Eastern Women's Colleges, Constance M. Mccullough

Graduate Thesis Collection

In recent years the colleges and universities of the United States have been deluged by an overwhelming host of applicants for entrance.  At first some of these institutions were able to accommodate them.  Others, and particularly certain private eastern colleges and universities, could not do this and felt no desire to enlarge their facilities for the purpose.

Autobiography Of Proteins In Nutrients, Marguerite Jones

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis, submitted to Xavier University in 1933, surveys the chemical classification of proteins and their role in human nutrition, with the stated aim of preparing home economics students to understand protein's function in the diet. Jones organizes proteins into three major classes: simple proteins, including albumins, globulins, glutelins, protamins, and histones; conjugated proteins, including nucleo-proteins, glyco-proteins, phospho-proteins, and hemoglobins; and derived proteins, including albumoses, peptones, and peptids, describing the chemical composition, solubility properties, and sources of each.

The thesis then examines amino acids as the end products of protein digestion, identifying those essential for growth and maintenance, including tryptophane, …

Music And The Child, Leo John Dejan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The parents play an important part in the musical education of the child. The Teacher or tutor of music can assign and review the child's exercises, but it is the parent that must see to it that the child derives the maximum development of his musical capacity.

The Advantages Of Home Economics In The Elementary School, Helen C. Banks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Thus in summing up the advantages of Home Economics in the Elementary Schools, where it plays so vital a part in the child's training in fitting the child to meet the needs of society, we find Home Economic playing an important part in the school curriculum of to-day.