The University of Virginia record :: March 15, 1917

This course deals with practical applications to local conditions of
the hygiene of posture, nutrition, ventilation, nose and throat, ears,
eyes, nervous system, and sleep, and the prevention of contagious
diseases. The last week is devoted to the hygienic organization of
the teacher's life and work.

Text-Books.—Terman's Hygiene of the School Child, and Teacher's
Health, and the Bulletins of the Virginia Board of Health.

Education 11. H. A. The Hygiene of School Buildings, Equipment,
and Management.—10:30; P. H. 5. 2 hours (one session-hour). Mr.
Heck.

Corresponds to the second term of Education B2 in the regular
session. May be taken after or before Education 10.

This course deals with practical applications to local conditions of
the hygiene of location, lighting, ventilation, seating, teaching equipment,
sanitation, and cleaning of school buildings. The latter part
of the course is devoted to the length of the school session, the daily
schedule, recesses, play and games, discipline, punishment, methods
of instruction, and home study. Required parallel reading in University
Library.

Education 12. H. A. Heredity and Education.—12:15; P. H. 15.
2 hours (one session-hour). Mr. Heck.

Corresponds to the second term of Education B1 in the regular
session.

This course attempts to acquaint teachers with the fundamental
principles of heredity and their significance for education. The main
subjects for discussion are the germ and the body cells, inheritance
of acquired characters, education, other environmental influences,
Mendelism, heredity of defects, heredity of abilities, eugenics.

Text-Books.—Guyer's Being Well-Born, and Castle's Genetics and
Eugenics.

Education 13. H. A. School Administration.—10:30; P. H. 2. 2
hours (one session-hour). Mr. Manahan.

For superintendents, principals and teachers. Will consider contemporary
tendencies and problems in school organization and administration
in state, county and city; the duties and powers of central
and local educational authorities, with special reference to conditions
in Virginia and the South.

Education 14. H. A. Educational Surveys and Tests.—12:15; P.
H. 3. 2 hours (one session-hour). Mr. Manahan.

For teachers and supervisory officers interested in the scientific
measurement of educational products. It will consider the principles and
methods of planning and conducting educational tests and surveys,
the relation of teachers and supervisory officers to educational measurement,
and the practical value of such tests and surveys.

Education 15. H. A. Rural School Problems (with special relation
to one and two teacher schools).—2:30; P. H. 3. 2 hours (one
session-hour. Mr. Manahan.

This course will consider problems of rural school management,
courses of study, instructional needs, methods of teaching, affiliated
activities and outside interests, recreation and playgrounds, problems
of organization and administration. Subject to faculty approval,
this course will count for one term of Education C3, regular session.

Education 16. H. A. Educational Psychology.—9:30; P. H. 4. 2
hours (one session-hour). Mr. Hall-Quest.

Corresponds to the second term of Education B5 in the regular
session and deals with the education of the senses together with the
special study of imaging in the forms of perception, association and
memory.

Education 17. H. A. G. Principles of Teaching and Studying.
Second Year Grammar Grade Professional Course.—12:15; P. H.
4. 2 hours (one session-hour). Mr. Hall-Quest.

Corresponds to the first term of Education B6 in the regular session
and treats of the educational value of the modern program of
studies and the psychology of high school studies.

Education 18. H. A. Personality of Teacher.—10:30; P. H. 4. 2
hours (one session-hour). Mr. Hall-Quest.

Corresponds to the first term of Education C2 regular session and
treats of various methods of analyzing the teacher's professional personality
and the several sources of rating teachers both for employment
and promotion. Credit subject to faculty approval.

Education 19. H. A. History of Education.—3:30; P. H. 4. 2
hours (one session-hour). Mr. Huffington.

Corresponds to the first term of Education B9 in the regular session.

This course gives a historical background for the study of present
educational systems in Europe and America. The schools of ancient
nations and of the middle ages are discussed in their relations
of effect and cause to the social conditions which they served and
in their similarity and contrast to the schools of today. The rise
of modern systems is briefly traced, and a few selections from the
educational literature of the time are required for parallel reading.

Text-Books.—Grave's History of Education before the Middle
Ages and History of Education during the Middle Ages and the
Transition to Modern Times.

Education 20. H. A. High School Administration.—3:30; P. H.
3. 2 hours (one session-hour). Mr Hand.

Place of the high school in education; legal status of the high
schools; organization and government, including such problems as
(a) the junior high school (b) supervised study (c) the selective and
advisory function (d) the informal life of the school; selection and
employment of teachers; school attendance and school records.

Education 21. H. A. Matter and Method in the High School.—
8:30; P. H. 4. 2 hours (one session-hour). Mr. Hand.

Will deal with materials of high school education and the technic
involved in the instructional work. Under matter will be included:
The program of studies and exercises; the equipment of the classroom;
the library and the laboratory; community activities. Under
methods will be considered: Principles of class management as applying
to high schools; points in technic in handling various typical
subjects.

Note.—A special conference of all high school teachers will be
held once a week, conducted by Mr. Hand.

Education 129a. P. Principles of Elementary Education. First
Year Primary Summer School Professional Course.—2:30; Section
I, Primary Grades. P. H. 4. 2 hours. Miss Hickman.

Education 129b. G. Principles of Elementary Education. First
Year Grammar Grade Summer School Professional Course.—10:30;
Section II, Grammar Grades. P. H. 11. 2 hours. Miss Davidson.

These courses are planned for the first year's work for primary
and grammar grade teachers and will include some general principles
of education, elementary processes in human behavior—instincts,
habits; educational means and materials; teaching how to study;
moral education; testing results—methods of measuring results in
spelling, writing, arithmetic; composition, habits and power; organization
of the curriculum.

Text-Book.—Thorndike's Education, Supplemented.

Education 131. P. Child Study. Second Year Primary Summer
School Professional Course.—12:15; P. H. 2. 2 hours. Miss Barrett.

This course presents the problems of child study; physical growth
of the child; native movements; instincts and their education; education
of the senses; education of the imagination; early development
of the child; play, its evolution and function, its values, and
the theories of play; imitation and curiosity as factors in the learning
process.

Text.—Kirkpatrick's Fundamentals of Child Study.

Education 132. P. Methods in Reading 1. First Year Primary
Summer School Professional Course.—12:15; P. H. 11. 2 hours.
Miss Hickman.

Aims: practical work with class in oral reading; standards for
each grade, second, third, fourth; methods of teaching reading; types
of reading lessons; critical study of State adopted books; selection
of library for these grades.

Education 133a. P. Methods in Reading 2. Second Year Primary
Summer School Professional Course.—8:30 to 10:30; Midway
School. 2 hours. Miss Bronson.

Demonstration lessons in the Howell-Williams Method of Teaching
Reading. Several sections of the class will be formed. Demonstrations
will be given daily from 8:30 to 10:30 at Midway School
Building in the regular organized vacation school.

Education 133b. P. The Teaching of Reading 2. Second Year
Primary Summer School Professional Course.—8:30 to 10:30; Jefferson
Hall. 2 hours. Miss Dew.

Demonstration lessons and practical work in the Aldine Method
of Reading covering one year's work with suggestions as to its use
in the second and third year. Difficulties met with will be pointed
out and remedies suggested. Questions from teachers relating to
the work of the primary grade will be discussed. In the demonstrations
primary methods based on the Aldine Method—writing, number
work, language, folk games, dances will be discussed in order
to show the correlation of reading with other first grade work.

Education 134. P. Methods in Languages and Spelling. Second
Year Primary Summer School Professional Course.—10:30; P. H. 3.
2 hours. Miss Wray.

Language methods; course of study for the first four grades; relation
of spelling to other subjects; selection of spelling material;
causes of incorrect spelling; method of teaching in primary grades;
study of standard tests; course of study for each grade.

Education 135. P. Hygiene and Sanitation. Second Year Primary
Summer School Professional Course.—2:30; P. H. 1. 2 hours.
Miss Wilson.

Hygiene of the school child will receive major emphasis; general survey
of the subject; hygiene of the school plant; hygiene of the school
child; hygiene of instruction; hygiene of the teacher; neurasthenia
of the teacher; health suggestions; the hygiene of character.

Education 136. G. Methods in History and Civics. First Year
Grammar Grade Summer School Professional Course.—12:15; M. L.
2. 2 hours. Mr. Huffington.

The relation of history and civics; relation of method and subject
matter; adaptation the secret of method; study of the neighborhood,
American flag, national and state songs, historical stories; visual appeal;
dramatics as a method; using questions; note-book making;
current events; lesson plans.

Education 137. G. Grammar Grade Methods in Arithmetic. First
Year Grammar Grade Summer School Professional Course.—3:30;
C. H. 5. 2 hours. Miss Davidson.

Reasons for teaching, history, present status, aims and values;
subject matter present tendencies; relation of problems to activities;
motivation and correlation; accuracy; short and direct ways;
how to use the text; study of the State course; how to study arithmetic;
illustrative lessons in the fundamental operations, fractions,
compound numbers, mensuration, practical measurement.

Text required.—Smith's Modern Advanced Arithmetic.

Education 138. G. Grammar Grade Methods in Arithmetic 2.
Second Year Grammar Grade Summer School Professional Course.
—9:30; C. H. 5. 2 hours. Miss Barrett.

The history of arithmetic; problems and means of solving them;
use of outside material; rules (type lessons); how time may be
saved; difficult phases; types of lesson plans; Courtis Tests; assigned
lessons in percentage; problems of industrial arts; problems that
have given the teacher trouble in teaching.

Education 139. P. Primary Grade Methods in Arithmetic 1. First
Year Primary Grade Summer School Professional Course.—10:30;
C. H. 5. 2 hours. Miss Barrett.

A. Subject matter of what primary arithmetic should include; the
work of the first four grades; the value of arithmetic; how to assign

a lesson; arrangement of material; place and time in daily schedule.
B. Method—counting, notation and numeration, objection development;
method of obtaining interest; teaching multiplication and division
(type lessons); drill; tests; correcting papers; texts; observation.

Education 140. P. Kindergarten Observation.—9:30 to 11:30;
Washington Hall. 2 hours. Miss Stockard and Miss Wall.

There will be daily observation in the Kindergarten and weekly
conferences in which questions arising from observation in the Observation
School will be discussed. Note books and questionnaire.
Study of materials and methods adapted to use in the primary
schools.

Education 141. P. Handwork for Kindergarten and Primary
Grades.—12:15; Washington Hall. Fee, 35 cents. Miss Wall.

Painting—2 weeks—Floating leader, developing color appreciation.
Landscape; object, design. Crayon—2 weeks—Color appreciation;
landscape, object, design. Cutting—one week—Free cutting
leading to design to paste work; representative cutting, story cutting.
Construction work—one week—Life forms without paste and
with paste.

Education 142. P. Methods in Language I. First Year Primary
Summer School Professional Course.—8:30; P. H. 3. 2 hours. Miss
Wray.

Three weeks of this course will be devoted to a review of English
and Composition to insure a foundation upon which to build up the
course of study and methods in the first four grades. The last three
weeks will be devoted to language methods.

Education 230. Scouting.—4:30; P. H. 1. Mr. Bacon.

Three courses for Scout Masters will be given, each covering a
period of two weeks. First class June 19th to July 2nd; second
class July 3rd to 16th; third class July 17th to 31st. Each group will
cover the same period of time and the same work. Some of the
topics to be discussed will be: an outline history of the National
Organization; object of the boy scouts movement; organization relation
to community; leadership; the adolescent boy; psychology of
scouting; the American Boy and his relation to social problems;
the scout program and its relation to family life and country life;
scout efficiency and citizenship.

Special lectures and demonstrations will be given on the more
intensive phases of scout work by men who are authorities on the
following subjects: Camp management, fire building and trapping,
first aid, bandaging, knot tying, scout programs, geological formation,
bird life, astronomy, forestry and conservation, local bird and
animal life.

Education 231. Medical Inspection and First Aid.

This course will be conducted by two representatives from the
State Board of Health, who are specialists in their respective fields,
assisted by members of the Summer School Faculty. It will begin
June 25th and continue to July 6th. Hours and place to be announced.

Camp Fire Girls.—There will be an organization of camp fire
girls and a number of demonstrations and special lectures.

Vacation School and Demonstration Classes.—A very important
and helpful feature of the work in elementary education will be a
regular vacation school for observation purposes. The city of Charlottesville
will conduct a vacation school for work in all the grades,
which will be in charge of trained expert teachers. Arrangements
have been made for daily observation work, and classes have been
scheduled to avoid conflict. The work will be done under the supervision
of a critic teacher.

Arrangements have also been made to bring classes twice a week
from Midway School to the University for demonstration work before
the various classes in Education.

Note.—A series of Round Table Conferences in Education will be
arranged to meet once or twice a week. Separate conferences for
high school teachers, grammar grade teachers and primary teachers
will be held.

The Principals Meeting of the Virginia State Teachers' Association
will be held at the Summer School for one week beginning
June 25th. A special program for the week will be prepared, covering
various administration problems of interest to principals.

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