General Methods Of Teaching In Elementary Schools Including The Kindergarten PDF Download

Excerpt from Teaching Elementary School Subjects The art of teaching is based upon a knowledge of children, of society, and of how one is to be adjusted to the other. For a knowledge of children we have the sciences of educational psychology and educational hygiene. For a knowledge of society we have sociology, or the social sciences in general, and educational sociology in particular. Direct experience with children and in society and first-hand study of and participation in life are indispensable to those who would guide life effectively as teachers. For helping the immature adjust themselves happily to our complex social life, we use among other instruments the subjects of study. We call the methods of teaching each of the various subjects of the school special methods as distinguished from the general methods of teaching all subjects. When this book was planned and put into its first form it was expected to cover the field of general methods very briefly and the field of special methods in detail. Chapters on "The Educative Process," "The Learning Process," and "The Teaching Process" were prepared by the editor as an introduction to the chapters on special methods. It was later decided to change this plan, and the second two chapters were removed and printed in American Education (Albany, N.Y., Feb. to June, 1917). The volume on "How to Teach," by Strayer and Norsworthy (Macmillan), and other texts treat of general methods in elementary schools and may well be used along with or preceding this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.