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Excerpt from The School Methods Book: Methods, Aids, Devices, Material for the Help of Teachers of Elementary School Classes There are five formal steps in teaching; the prepara tion, presentation, generalization, summary and applica t1on. The making of the plan is the first step in the prepara tion work of the teacher. Many teachers do not believe in a plan. They have a program of the day's work and follow it mechanically. The architect or engineer who attempted a piece of work without carefully planning it would meet with poor results. The average teacher does not know how to make a plan. She confuses a program with a plan. The magazines say very little about it. If there is nothing new in material or method, teaching will lack interest to the pupil and teacher. Old plans cannot be used as the subject matter grows, e. G. History; it changes because of new discoveries, wars, develop ments of countries. The children's experiences vary. Some classes have excellent home conditions; others have only apologies for a home. The class that is poor in arithmetic needs twice as much time for that particular subject; children in foreign districts need more time for language and reading. 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.