Normal School Education in Connecticut, Issue 307

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Teachers college, Columbia university, 1928 - Education - 96 pages
 

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Page 10 - Institutes, proposed the appointment of a Committee, " to make due examination, and report to the next Legislature a definite plan for the support, location, and internal arrangement of one or more schools for teachers.
Page 24 - ... the school? and when they have got ideas, and can clothe them orally in words, do you allow them as a privilege to write or print the same on the slate or paper ? 5. Do you give out a number of words, and then ask your pupils to frame sentences in which those words are used?
Page 4 - Let it be so well endowed, by the liberality of the public, or of individuals, as to have two or three professors, men of talents and habits adapted to the pursuit, who should devote their lives to the object of the "Theory and Practice of the Education of Youth," and who should prepare and deliver, and print, a course of lectures on the subject.
Page 3 - The common schools for children, are, in not a few instances, conducted by individuals who do not possess one of the qualifications of an instructor; and, in very many cases, there is barely knowledge enough ' to keep the tcachur at a decent distance from his scholars.
Page 22 - Do you confine the spelling exercise to a text-book in spelling? 3. Do you require a definition or explanation of every word put out in the spelling exercise ? 4. Do you sometimes test correctness in spelling, by dictating sentences containing one or more words of the spelling lesson, to be written on the blackboard or slate ? 5. Do you put out the words to be spelled in the order in which they stand in the spelling-book : 6.
Page 19 - Composition; reading from the most approved authors; exercises in criticism, comprising critical analyses of the language, grammar, and style of the best English authors, their errors and beauties; Declamation; Geography; Arithmetic continued.
Page 24 - In connection with reading lessons? 3. Do you accustom your pupils to construct sentences of their own, using different parts of speech, on the blackboard? 4. Have you formed the habit of correct speaking, so as to train, by your own example, your pupils to be good practical grammarians? 5. At what age do your pupils commence this study?
Page 3 - An excellent suggestion was lately made on a branch of this subject by a writer in a periodical publication. His proposal was that a seminary should be founded for the teachers of district schools; that a course of study should be prescribed to persons who are desirous of obtaining the situation of teachers in such schools; and that no individual should be accepted as an instructor who had not received a license from the proposed institution.
Page 20 - MORAL AND RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT 1. Is the school daily assembled and dismissed with religious exercises? with prayer? reading of the scriptures? 2. Is the Bible or selections read as a religious exercise every day in classes? or by a portion of the school? or by the teacher? 3. Are the pupils required to commit to memory psalms, passages of scriptures, etc.?
Page 2 - ordered that a free school shall be sett up in this towne, and our pastor, Mr. Davenport, together with the magistrates shall consider whatt yearly allowance is meete to be given to itt out of the common stock of the towne, and also what rules and orders are meet to be observed in and about the same.

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