Teacher Training Essentials PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... LESSON I LEARNING FROM OTHERS Exper1ence is the best teacher. The wise man is constantly learning from his own experience. But he does not limit himself to his own necessarily restricted experience lest he become narrow. He uses the results of the experiences of others. The progressive Sunday-school worker draws careful conclusions from his own experience and observation. But, ambitious to improve his service to his Master, he seeks to possess himself of the riches of the accumulated experiences of the great host of Sunday-school workers as formulated by specialists. It is the purpose of this course to present clearly and briefly the best that has been learned by the most successful workers about the pupil, the teacher, the school, and the Bible. I. Those who fail. One of the poorest of superintendents had been working as superintendent for ten years. He was always present and always on time. He was a devout Christian. He prayed enough, and he worked enough, but he did not know how. He had not felt the necessity of learning from those who knew how. He did not take a training course, and he did not visit other Sunday-schools or attend conventions and institutes. If he had learned from others, he would not have opened his Sunday-school in one stereotyped way every Sunday morning, and he would not have made that long talk every Sunday morning. Nor would he have had the same program Sunday after Sunday. In this same Sunday-school was a young woman who had been the teacher of a class of boys since they were nine years of age, and they were now sixteen. She was a failure as a teacher. She did manage to keep them fairly quiet and to do some sort of teaching when they were only nine, but now she could not even keep them half-way in order, to say...