isua-isnscatalog-1880-1881-008

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.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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