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Description: 4. After an attendance of two terms students may elect to begin the
study of Latin
but if Latin be elected it must be studied continuously
for the number of terms indicated, and it will work an increase in the
time required to complete the course, of from one to two terms, in the
case of most students.A careful study of the programme will show that two things have
been aimed at:1. To give to each student who may leave the school at the end of
any term the instruction that will be of most value to him
and—2. To make the studies of each term the best preparation for the
work of the following terms.This is illustrated in part by the professional course of instruction.
The first term is devoted to observation of the work done in the first
three grades of school and to the study of this under the instruction of
the teacher of primary methods. The purpose is to lead the student
to form standards of order, of instruction, and of the necessary phy¬
sical conditions of a school
such as ventilation, heating, cleanliness,
seating, apparatus, and the like.In the next term the student studies the theory of the school, when
he learns to interpret what he has observed in the preceding term, and
is led to see more clearly the purpose of the school, the reasons for the
methods pursued, and the bearing of the different subjects taught
therein upon the future well-being of the pupil.The third term is devoted to the study of methods in reading and
primary arithmetic, or number, together with observation and
practice.Should the student leave the school at the end of the first, the sec¬
ond, or the third term, he will have received that kind of professional
instruction that will be of the greatest immediate value to him.The next three terms are devoted to the study of the mind
first,
with a view to discover those principles and laws that must be ob¬
served in imparting instruction
and, second, to learn the principles
that should determine the methods of teaching Good Behavior.
Following this is a study of methods of instruction in geography,
grammar and composition, based upon the psychological knowledge
previously acquired.Then follows a term of instruction in the classification, gradation
and management of graded and ungraded schools, and a study of the
School Law and of the legal status of the teacher in his relations to
pupils and to parents.The last term in the course is given to the study of the philosophy
and history of education, and of the biographies of great teachers.
Source: http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isuarchive/id/32324
Collection: Indiana State University Archives

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