University of Virginia record :: March, 1910 :: University of Virginia Library

7. Theory and Practice of Teaching.—This course is offered for teachers
in elementary schools. During the first two weeks, the class will study school management,
including such topics as the preparation of the teacher, daily schedule,
grading, tests, promotion, discipline, hygiene; during the second two weeks, the class
will study educational psychology, including instinct, interest, attention, habit, association,
memory, apperception, induction, deduction, will; during the third two

weeks the class will study the elements of general method, as applications of educational
psychology.

Text-Books.—Seely's New School Management; James' Talks to Teachers; McMurry's
Elements of General Method.

Daily, from 4:30 to 5:30. Professor Heck. Cabell Hall, Room 5.

8. Grammar Grade Methods.—This course is a detailed consideration of
individual subjects. The aim of each subject and its essential topics and methods
of presenting each will be studied. Among such subjects will be those of grammar
grade language, composition, history, geography, and arithmetic.

Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Professor Woodley and Professor Payne. Cabell Hall,
Room 3.

9. Present Day Problems in Public School Work (Round Table
Conference).

First Week—Teaching children how to study. Professor McMurry.

Second Week—Some controlling ideas in teaching. Professor Kirkpatrick.

Third Week—The care of the school-child's health. Professor Heck.

Fourth Week—School hygiene. Professor Maphis.

Fifth Week—The course of study for elementary schools. Professor Woodley
and Professor Payne.

Sixth Week—Special methods of teaching the various subjects. A specialist in
each subject.

Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Cabell Hall Auditorium.

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 the following topics: 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 2:30 to 3:30. Professors Hand, Hart, and Maphis. Cabell Hall,
Room 5.