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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 …

The Effects Of A Special Technique Upon Rate And Comprehension In Teaching Silent Reading., S. Harlan Vogt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Marionettes As A Project In The Elementary Schools, Elizabeth M. Grady

Bachelors’ Theses

A few years ago we associated the marionette entirely with the Italian showman. Now a veritable renaissance of interest in marionettes seems to be sweeping over every country, our own included. Many artists were quick to see the educational as well as enjoyment possibilities in this fascinating form of drama. The result has been that in almost every city and town some sort of work with marionettes is being done in the public, private and parochial schools from the primary grades to high school.

Speech Training In The Elementary Schools, Adell M. Schott

Bachelors’ Theses

One of the strongest impulses of the human heart is self-expression, the most important medium of which is spoken English. The fact that more attention and interest are directed at the perfection of written. English cannot be refuted when an intelligent investigation is made into the progress of spoken English. By spoken English, I mean the general training of the voice for speech.

Catalog, 1930-1931, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1930-1931 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

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 …

Catalog, 1929-1930, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1929-1930 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

The Teaching Of Reading Affords One Of The Greatest Opportunities For The Development Of Character In The Junior High School, Dolores O. Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Supervised Study, Alice L. Priestley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis, submitted to Xavier University in 1929, examines supervised study as an instructional method and argues for its superiority over traditional recitation-based teaching. Priestley traces the historical development of the teaching function through three stages, from the teacher as disciplinarian, through an emphasis on psychologizing instruction, to the contemporary movement toward directing and supervising pupils' independent learning activities.

The thesis reviews a series of experimental studies comparing supervised study to conventional recitation and home study methods, including investigations by Reavis, Richard, Hill-Quest, Breslich, Minnich, and Brown and Worthington, conducted across subjects including algebra, plane geometry, arithmetic, and poetry at …

The Project Method In Education, Ralph O. Paff

Bachelors’ Theses

Hence our problem is to determine what the desirable things are that children may do, what means we may use to develop and teach these things, and by what standards we may judge the efficiency of our teaching. Much of the subject matter and many of the habits formed in our schools do not conform to desirable social life outside of school. For instance, we tell children not to receive help from or give help to anyone in an examination or test. To do so is unfair. Yet we ask children to be mutually helpful, to assist the needy, and …

Catalog, 1928-1929, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1928-1929 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

Typical Methods Of Learning, Esther Zemke

Bachelors’ Theses

In discussing methods of learning at all, it may be well to define the word method. What is meant when one speaks of method? One dictionary definition is a mode of procedure, a manner, or way as a method of teaching. Dewey defines it in this way, "Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective for use." If this definition is used, a relationship between method and subject matter must be conceded, the one cannot be isolated from the other although the attempt is still being made in many schools of today. Some of the dangers …

Kentucky School Journal, Department Of Library Special Collections

Research Collections

No abstract provided.

Catalog, 1927-1928, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1927-1928 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

Catalog, 1926-1927, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1926-1927 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

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.

Catalog, 1925-1926, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1925-1926 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

Witness Volume 4, No. 6, May 1925, The Witness Publishing Company

The Witness (1921-1925)

CONTENTS - Vol. 4 No. 6, May 1925

Meditatie (meditation)

82 - Verborgen Afdwalingen by P. J. Hoekenga

Editorials

84 - Het Algemeen en Welgemeend Aanbod des Heils I. by L. Berkhof

86 - Kerkelijke Attestatie II. by Y. P. De Jong

87 - A Misconception by H. Dekker

In Our Churches

88 - The Sabbath Day Abolished? by H. J. Kuiper

Contributions

91 - Bij Wien Beginnen? by N. J. Monsma

93 - The Babylonian Account of Creation by Martin J. Wyngaarden

96 - Het Gebed

96 - Licht Uit Duister (poem)