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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.