 | The University of Virginia record April, 1909 |  |
THE UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL OF METHODS.
A fee of $3.00 for Virginia teachers and $5.00 for teachers outside
of the State will pay for all courses offered in the School of Methods,
and teachers will not be restricted in the number of courses selected.
Virginia teachers are given the reduced price on account of the contribution
by the State toward the expenses of this school.
DRAWING.
Professor Blair and Assistant.
Miss Struble.
3. Course for Elementary School Teachers.—The details and adjustment
of the course will be determined by the instructors from day to day. In general
the course will cover the following topics: Flower Study—analysis and free expression,
ink painting, pencil and crayon handling in outline and mass (water color),
pictorial composition; conventionalization and translation—motifs and applications of
same for some definite purpose; landscape composition, in which the principles of
space division will be clearly demonstrated in charcoal pencil massing, ink washes
and water color; design composition—principles of balance, harmony of rhythm color
and use; blackboard sketching; pose and figure study—use in the elementary schools;
still life study, with special attention to selection and placing, using charcoal crayon
pencil and water color, with application of same to picture making and design; demonstrations
and student work in constructions for primary grades; general application—
making and decorating various forms of booklets and magazine covers, laundry mats,
library desk furnishing, etc., and stenciling for mats, pillow tops, curtains, etc.
Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30 and 2:30 to 3:30. Miss Struble. Mechanical Laboratory.
4. For Primary and Grammar School Teachers.—The course is
adapted to the needs of directors of drawing, and to those who desire to teach the
subject in their classes, but have not done so on account of fancied inability to
draw sufficiently well themselves. Instruction in drawing combined with methods
of teaching for Primary and Grammar school teachers. Black Board Drawing:
practice in drawing conventional forms in order to gain automatic facility. Nature
study with Drawing, adapted to all grades. Pictures and sketches appropriate
to the different seasons. Stories and Classics for Primary grades illustrated. Outdoor
Sketching: A sketch class will be organized with a view to making a study of landscape
composition, drawing from nature, etc. The beautiful campus, with its picturesque
surroundings, affords a most interesting field for this phase of the work.
Simple Design, with illustrations in water color and ink or pencil. Map Drawing
and chalk modelling. A Drawing Book to be used by each member of the class.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Professor Blair and Assistant. Mechanical Laboratory,
Room 1.
EDUCATION.
Professor Hand.
Professor Heatwole.
Professor Jenkins.
Professor Maphis.
Professor Woodley.
Professor Payne.
7. Theory and Practice of Teaching.—For teachers in elementary
schools. In this class a study is made of some of the fundamental principles of
teaching and their practical application. The class will be required to select and arrange
lessons from the various subjects taught in the public school. Plans of such
subject matter will be made upon the principles discussed in class. These principles
are such as interest, attention, correlation, the art of questioning, aims and methods
of instruction in the various elementary school subjects; value of type-studies, written
work, study periods, excursions; schoolroom activities.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Professor Heatwole and Professor Payne. Cabell Hall,
Room 3.
Text-Books.—McMurry's Method of the Recitation; McMurry's Special Method
in History, Geography, and Arithmetic; Dewey's School and Society.
8. Grammar Grade Methods.—A detailed consideration of individual subjects
will engage the time in this course. The aim of each subject and its essential
topics and methods of presenting each are to be studied. Among such subjects will
be those of grammar grade language, composition, history, geography, and arithmetic.
Daily, from 9:30 to 10:30. Professor Woodley. Cabell Hall, Room 2.
9. Present Day Problems in Public School Work (Round Table
Conference).—First Week—School management. Professors Jenkins and Hand.
Second Week—Some controlling ideas in teaching. Professors Heatwole and
Ruediger.
Third Week—School hygiene. Professor Maphis.
Fourth Week—The course of study for elementary schools. Professors Payne
and Woodley.
Fifth and Sixth Weeks—Special methods of teaching the various subjects. A
specialist in each subject.
Daily, from 3:30 to 4:30. Cabell Hall, Room 5.
10. Rural School Problems (with special reference to one and
two-teacher schools).—This course will cover the practical questions of school
work. It will take up how to open a school, how to close a school, tardiness, irregular
attendance, the bright boy, the slow child, the lazy child, the stubborn child,
leaving the room, getting water, forming a class, number of classes to be taught, daily
schedule, recesses, children's reports, examinations, tests, reviews, sanitation, ventilation,
light, heat, decoration of schools and grounds, and all those everyday questions
which confront the teacher. They will be treated from the standpoint of the rural
school teacher, but the work will be governed by the interests of the class. The question
box will be made a special feature.
Daily, from 4:30 to 5:30. Professors Hand, Jenkins, and Maphis. Cabell Hall,
Room 5.
ELEMENTARY ENGLISH.
Miss Andrews.
7. Elementary Language Work.—This course is planned to give teachers
of the elementary schools a brief, concentrated study of the essentials of matter and
method for the language work of all grades above the primary. The topics discussed
will include the following: the purpose and plan of language study; vital
points in language teaching; language environment; relation of language to other
subjects; the child's activities and experience as a basis for language work; language
and character; the teacher of language; literature and language; importance of
oral language training; types of oral lessons—conversation lessons, picture lessons,
study of stories and poems; dramatization, memorizing, lessons in usage and form;
spelling and word study; the course of study in language; the function and types of
written work.
Teachers possessing several series of language books and professional works on
teaching language are advised to brings them for reference.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Cabell Hall, Room 2.
Text-Book.—Hyde's Two-Book Course in English, Book I.
8. Elementary Grammar.—This course will cover the work of the seventh
and eighth grades, aiming primarily at giving teachers a deeper, surer knowledge of
the subject matter of grammar. There will be a condensed study of descriptive
grammar, with especial emphasis upon the more difficult points,—the abstract noun,
the comparison of adjectives, the function of case, the personal pronoun, analysis,
and; above all, the verb and the verbals. Frequent touches of comparative and historical
grammar will be employed for the sake of the new light and interest gained
therefrom. There will be, in addition, a consideration of the historical development
in the elementary schools, and the relation of grammar to language work.
Those expecting to take this course should bring all the good grammars in their
possession for broader reference work.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Cabell Hall, Room 2.
Text-Book.—Hyde's Two-Book Course in English, Book II.
GEOGRAPHY.
Professor Carney.
1. Primary Geography.—Home geography forms the basis of these lectures.
An attempt will be made, by conference and discussion, to outline a course
for the primary grades, keeping in mind the fact that the object of home geography
is to prepare the pupil for the larger field of geography. Field trips will be conducted
with classes of children to exemplify the observational side of the work from
the point of view of both the teacher and the pupil.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Physical Laboratory, Room 3.
2. Grammar School Geography.—Subject matter and methods of presentation
will be given attention from the standpoint of general geographic principles
and of good geography teaching, emphasizing particularly the life relations. The
course will also consider the application of "type studies"; the use of supplementary
reading; field trips; the extent to which commercial geography should be taught
in the grammar grades; the best aids in teaching, as maps, globes, models,
pictures, etc.
Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Physical Laboratory, Room 3.
In both courses the work will be based on Frye's Geographies.
HISTORY.
6. (Virginia History.)—In this course the principal facts in the history
of Virginia will be reviewed; the purpose being to deepen and strengthen the knowledge
of the teachers who are preparing for examination in this subject.
Daily, from 3:30 to 4:30. [From June 18th to July 17.] Professor Chandler.
Rotunda, N. E. (Room 3).
MANUAL TRAINING.
Professor Richard Crawford.
Professor F. M. Crawford.
1. Hand Work for the Elementary Grades.—A comprehensive course
in handwork especially adapted to the needs of the elementary grade teacher, or of
the supervisor, with problems for each grade, embracing work in paper-weaving, cutting,
and folding, native material basketry, clay modelling, pottery, loom construction
and rug weaving, knife work, and bent iron.
A fee of $1.25 will be charged for laboratory materials.
Physical Laboratory, A. 10:30 to 11:30; B. 2:30 to 3:30.
Credit.—Professional credit may be granted for this course upon payment of
$5 additional, and upon the fulfillment of other conditions heretofore stated.
MATHEMATICS.
Professor Jenkins.
9. Methods in Arithmetic.—This class will not be given subject matter.
It will be presumed that the students are familiar with all the subject matter of
arithmetic, and effort will be made to give the class methods, and devices, which
can be used in presenting the subject to a class. The first two weeks will be given
to primary work, such as is taught in the first four grades of the common schools.
The second two weeks will be given to methods which may be used in the presentation
of those parts of arithmetic which are usually taught in the fifth, sixth, and
seventh years of school life.
Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Cabell Hall, Room 6.
Text-Book.—Colaw and Elwoods' Arithmetic.
10. Beginners' Algebra.—This course is organized for those who have
never studied algebra, and who desire to take the examination for a first grade certificate.
It will require two or three hourse of study out of class. The course will
cover that part of algebra which is required for a first grade certificate.
Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Cabell Hall, Room 8.
Text-Book.—Well's Secondary Algebra.
NATURE STUDY AND SCHOOL GARDENS.
Professor Davis.
The Nature Study will be given a practical side, and so conducted as to be
chiefly useful to teachers of primary and intermediate grades. Many of the lessons
will be illustrated by use of school gardens at the summer school. How to make
the best use of school gardens will thus be shown. A model school garden is conducted
at the north end of the terrace between East Lawn and East Range. New
subjects, not usually considered in the school gardens, will be introduced.
Other nature lessons will deal with wild flowers, grains, grasses, crops, birds,
insects, fish, minerals and other objects suitable for the school room.
Daily, from 3:30 to 4:30. Rotunda, Room 1.
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
Professor Lambeth.
This course will be especially adapted to the needs of the school teacher, and
will cover the matter usually outlined in standard texts upon the subject. Some
time will be spent in the study of food and dietectics, the sanitary treatment of soil,
air and water; the treatment of and disposal of sewage; the sanitation of dwellings
and schools; the relation of insects to disease; a brief study of infection, susceptibility
and immunity. The course will conclude with a brief discussion of personal
hygiene.
Daily, from 4:30 to 5:30. Rotunda, South East.
PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss Brown.
The Primary School will offer courses in the subject matter of the first four
grades and will present practical plans and methods for the development of the work.
In addition, there will be discussions on (a) the teacher—preparation, equipment and
requirement; (b) the school—organization, management, discipline, relation to the
community; (c) the pupil—physical, mental and moral development.
1. For First and Second Grade Teachers.—Reading and language arts:
oral English, stories, dramatization, phonies and pronunciation, simple writing in
English.
Nature study: field and class room work in mammals, birds, insects and plants.
Manual training: paper cutting, cardboard construction, clay modelling, etc.
Number: Sense training, games and objective work, counting and ratio.
Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Cabell Hall. Room 3.
2. For Third and Fourth Grade Teachers.—Reading and language:
oral and written English based on literature, nature study, history and geography.
Simple treatment of the sentence and grammatical forms.
Arithmetic: fundamental processes, multiplication table, simple fractions, problems
in constructive work.
History: hero tales of all nations; America's story for America's children.
Geography and nature study.
Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Cabell Hall, Room 3.
SCHOOL MUSIC.
Miss Hofer.
Mrs. Starte.
3. Music for First Four Grades.—All work will be given by grades, outlined
under the following topics: Songs—Introductive lecture—music as a means of
expression and the aims of public school music; songs—how to teach songs, what to
teach through songs, individual work with unmusical children, classification of songs
(devotional, patriotic, nature, festival, miscellancous); breathing exercises—for relaxation,
for development, for artistic singing: vocal work—methods and devices for
securing a light flowing, vibrant tone quality from children; interval work—major
intervale within the octave, different groups of intervals, methods of teaching intervals:
ear-training—rhythm or the recognition of rote songs through rhythm and recognition
of different rhythms through ear, and tune; two, three and four-part rhythms,
taught through games, marching, counting, etc.; time patterns—time difficulties in
rote songs, time patterns, drill on different patterns through singing, ear-training, sight
reading exercises, and writing from ear: rapid sight reading from staff; simple two-part
work: writing of simple melodies and parts of songs from memory.
Daily, hours to be arranged. Auditorium.
Text-Book.—Modern Music Series (Silver, Burdette & Co.).
STORY TELLING.
Professor Wyche.
1. Classic Stories.—Some great classic tales and their place in education.
Hiawatha; Beowulf; Seigfried; Ulysses; King Arthur; folk and fairy tales; Uncle
Remus and Southern folk-lore; Bible stories.
Daily, (Beginning July 9th.)
2. The Art of Story Telling.—Origin of story telling and the story-sagaman
and minstrel; the story in language, grammar, song, creative work, dramatization,
etc.; the formal and expression of the spiritual. How to tell a tale—psychological
principles.
Daily, from 4:30 to 5:30 (June 19 to July 3d). Cabell Hall, Room 1.
Remarks.—Story telling at twilight, on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, on
North Rotunda steps.
Local branch of the National Story Tellers' League will be organized.
TEACHERS' TRAINING CLASS.
Mrs. Moffett.
Arithmetic.—Common and decimal fractions, quantity, price, and cost; bills
and accounts; denominate numbers; practical measurements; percentage and its applications;
ratio and proportion. Written work required daily. Book—any standard
arithmetic. Work to be done will be assigned in class.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9, and 11 to 11:30.
Geography.—Physiography, climate, plants, animals, and peoples of each continent,
correlation with North America. Special study of the United States in respect
to natural resources, occupations, largest cities, chief shipping routes, comparison
with other countries.
General Geography.—The earth as a planet; winds and rain; ocean movements;
distribution of temperature; peoples.
Daily, from 9 to 9:30, and 10:30 to 11.
United States History.—I. Conditions affecting American history—(1) Geography
of U. S.; (2) The Indians; (3) Situation in Europe at the time continent
was discovered. II. The Discovery of a New World—nations interested—discoverers
and explorers. III. Period of colonization—colony settled—when, where, by
whom, purpose, government. IV. Formation of the Union—important events—Revolutionary
war, articles of confederation, adoption of constitution. V. Development
of the nation—foreign and domestic problems. VI. Development of national spirit,—
political parties, growth of the States, slavery, disunion and civil war, political reconstruction.
VII. The New Nation—internal development, expansion, present
conditions.
Daily, from 9:30 to 10.
Civil Government.—1. The citizen's part in the government; right to vote,
elections, parties; State protection of rights, individual and political; promotion of
progress; education; taxation; departments of government, functions of each department;
relation of the State to the national government. 2. National government
—constitution; congress; the President; the courts; public lands, national development.
Daily, from 10 to 10:30.
Note. All classes meet in Cabell Hall, Room 5.
WRITING.
Miss Emens.
The object of this course is to aid students to become teachers of writing, as
well as free, easy, legible writers.
Definite instruction will be given in position of paper, body, pen and hand, arm
movement writing and blackboard writing. The following topis will be discussed:
How arm movement may be adapted to word or sentence writing; how arm movement
may be adapted to all written lesson work; what children should accomplish in writing
the first year in school; what to accomplish in writing in the various grades;
writing material, the use and abuse of copy books; the hygienic and psychological
value of writing; why a well-planned course in writing is essential.
Daily, hours to be arranged. (June 18th to July 9th.) Rotunda, Room 4 (N. E.).
OTHER COURSES OPEN TO STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL
OF METHODS.
The instruction in the School of Methods is intended to cover every subject
required for a First Grade Certificate in Virginia. In order to prevent a duplication
will be permitted to take the following courses in the University Department without
additional cost; First—Agriculture, 1, or Geography 3, (Physical); second—
English History 3; third—History 4 (United States); fourth—History 5 (Civil
Government); fifth—Physical Training.
| The University of Virginia record April, 1909 | |