xii Authors and Scope of the Work tions include pen drawings, halftones and color plates, made especially for this work. Many of these are valuable for lessons in language, nature study, agriculture, geography and history. Numerous cross-references and a complete Index enable the teacher to find at once all subject matter correlated with the lesson in hand. By use of these she can add a wealth of interesting material to the bare statements found in her work. While these volumes were prepared primarily for the teacher, they contain much material of equal value and interest to school patrons. We refer especially to such subjects as Character Building, School Sanitation and Hygiene, Personal and Community Hygiene, Vocational Guidance, Thrift, Community Interests, Adolescence and Books and Libraries, each of especial value to every one interested in children and young people. Should the teacher retire from her profession and become the mistress of a home, she will find PUBLIC SCHOOL METHODS One of the most useful works in the household library. Thousands of teachers, by force of circumstance, find themselves in their positions without normal-school training. To these PUBLIC SCHOOL METHODS renders a service whose value is beyond estimate. In these volumes the teacher finds the best methods of teaching, the solution of her most perplexing problems in organization and management, and an abundance of illustrative material to help her make the program interesting. SPECIAL FEATURES Dr. Charles A. McMurry, Professor of Education, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., has contributed largely to the features reflecting present-day tendencies in education, especially in the new field of Project Method, Motivation, Socialized Recitation and Tests and Measurements. PUBLIC SCHOOL METHODS is justified in placing stress upon the subject of physical education. The University of Michigan makes physical training compulsory for all students, and other schools are tending in that direction. The conscription of American youths in 1917 revealed the serious lack of physical fitness in the future citizens of the republic. President Payne and Miss Ethel R. Weeden of the Harris Teachers' College, Saint Louis, recognized authorities, have developed the subject for these normal training volumes. The Rural Life outlook is emphasized strongly in Volume Seven in an article from the pen of President Harold W. Foght of the South Dakota State Teachers' College, Aberdeen, South Dakota; and Professor C. W. Phipps, Head of the Department of Agriculture, Emporia (Kan.) State Normal School, contributes a section on The Community Fair. The close relation existing between the Kindergarten and the first grade in the public schools has been recognized, and both the Kindergarten and primary teacher will find the chapter Kindergarten especially helpful. This chapter was prepared by Miss Katharine Martin of the School of Education, University of Chicago, and is strong and practical throughout. Many new stories with illustrations have been added to the chapters on Reading, and the teacher will find this new material valuable in making the connection between the lessons on the blackboard and those in the primer. The chapter on Language by Miss Achsah May Harris of the State Normal School, Emporia, Kansas, is replete with methods, suggestions and material covering this important work for the first three grades. Every page of this chapter is practical and the suggestions can be applied in any school. The chapter on Number, by Dr. Henry G. Williams, is one of great strength. One cannot read this chapter without recognizing it as the work of a master of his subject. Every teacher should read carefully the Introduction to this chapter. It contains the pedagogy of arithmetic and enables the teacher to determine the trend of her work in this important subject. The lessons which follow include an exposition of the best methods to use in the first, second and third grades. Mrs. Emelia Goldsworthy Clark has added Figure Drawing, Blackboard Sketching and Picture Study to her excellent chapter on Drawing, and Miss Hale has added several new and interesting designs to the chapter on Construction Work. xiv Authors and Scope of the Work The chapter on Penmanship has been rewritten and fully illustrated, making it a complete treatise on teaching this subject in the primary grades. Under School Management the teacher will find solutions to the many perplexing problems frequently confronting her. We especially commend to her notice the chapters, Organization and Management and The Work of the School, in which will be found much valuable information for both teacher and parents. Many teachers lack material for programs. This new edition of PUBLIC SCHOOL METHODS supplies that want in the chapters on Special Day Programs. These chapters contain an abundance of material most carefully selected and provide programs for all the special days celebrated in the public. schools. The designs ornamenting the first pages of these programs give an indication of what may be attempted in the way of decorating the blackboard. The work throughout is written in clear, terse English. In its preparation the authors and editors have had constantly in mind the busy teacher who needs a work in which she can find at once the help she needs, and they have spared no pains nor effort in the attempt to supply such a work. Volumes I to III, inclusive, cover fully the work of the first. three grades in the public-school curriculum, and the teacher will find them complete for these grades. In the succeeding volumes the intermediate and grammar grades are treated with the same clearness and fullness. THE PUBLISHERS. |