isua-isnscatalog-1881-1882-009

Description:	INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.scholastic attainments, and in the development and discipline of their powers of thought. These differences make, it possible for one class to make that preparation for teaching which the school aims to give, in much less time than is required of the class who enter without either scholarship or mental discipline. Hence the necessity for differing courses of instruction.REGULAR COURSE OF STUDY.Since the last register was published, the Board of Trustees have revised the course of study formerly pursued, and have or¬ dered that two other courses be arranged with reference to the second and third classes named above. The main features of the regular course are the following:First. The first three terms form an elementary course in which Ihe student completes the study of all the legal branches except the History of the United States, and receives instruction in the theory and practice of teaching during each of these three terms.The strictly professional work of these three terms consists (a.) Of the study of the school in respect of its purposes, and the methods by which the teacher seeks to realize these purposes. The process by which these methods are taught is by a systematic course of observation in the model schools, under the direction. and supervision of the teacher of methods, and the subsequent interpretation of what has been observed. This is a study of the actual school as it is taught from clay to day by the training teachers and to this study one term is devoted.(6.) In the second term the theory of the school is presented  the principles and laws governing the organization are discovered and stated. Through this study the student is enabled to see more clearly the reasons for much that he observed during the former term.(e.) The third term is devoted to a thorough study of (1) methods of teaching arithmetic and language including both the reading and composition work in the first eight grades of the primary school and (2) practice in teaching in these grades.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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