 | University of Virginia record March 15, 1916 |  |
EDUCATION.
1. The Health of School Children.—The aim of this course is to
acquaint teachers and principals with the necessary requirements of
school hygiene. Not only will the proper hygiene ideals be discussed
but they will be related to local conditions and difficulties
as brought out in class conferences. The divisions of the subject
will be as follows: growth and development; defects and hygiene
of sight, hearing, breathing, posture, etc.; contagious diseases; medical
inspection; teaching of hygiene; the daily school program—
recitations, study periods, recesses, home study, etc.; play, games,
and gymnastics; the hygiene of school buildings, and equipment;
community hygiene.
Text-Books.—Terman's Hygiene of the School Child; Burks' Health
and the School; Bulletins of the Virginia State Board of Health.
Daily, from 9:30 to 10:30. Professor Heck. Peabody Hall,
Room 2.
2. School Management and Methods—Advanced.—This course
is based upon a round-table discussion of the teacher's life and
work. Emphasis is given to the teacher's health, personality, preparation,
salary, and expenditures. The teacher's relations to officials,
colleagues, parents, pupils, and community are discussed in
detail. The latter half of the course is devoted to the teacher's
daily and weekly schedule of work and recreation and to various
problems of management and instruction.
Text-Book.—To be selected.
Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor Heck. Auditorium, Peabody
Hall, Room 5.
3. School Administration.—This course is arranged for Principals
and teachers who are in charge of schools. It 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. Lectures, prescribed reading
and discussions.
Text-Book.—To be selected.
Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor Manahan. Peabody Hall,
Room 3.
4. High School Administration.—Place of the High School in
education; legal status of the High School; 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.
Text-Books.—Johnson and Others, The Modern High School; Hollister's
High School Administration.
Daily, from 3:30 to 4:30. Professor Hollister. Peabody Hall,
Room 3.
5. Matter and Method in the High School.—This course 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.
Text-Books.—Parker's Methods of Teaching in High Schools; Hollister's
High School and Class Management.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Professor Hollister. Peabody Hall,
Room 4.
Note.—In addition to the above there will be conducted a Special High
School with Supervised Study in which the work will be thoroughly
supervised by Professor Hollister and Professor Hall-Quest. All
subjects in the high school program of studies will be offered, except
the courses in Science.
Note.—A Special Conference of all High School Teachers will be
held once a week.
6. Educational Surveys and Tests.—A course 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. Lectures, prescribed
reading and discussions.
Text-Book.—King's Elements of Statistical Methods, etc.
Daily, from 4:30 to 5:30. Professor Manahan. Peabody Hall,
Room 3.
7. Educational Psychology.—The main divisions of this subject
will be: Habit; Sensation and Perception; Imaging which includes
association, memory and creative imagination. The modern emphasis
on individual differences will form a general background of
this course. The purpose of the course is to acquaint teachers with
the mental processes involved in teaching and learning. Without
such knowledge school work is a sheer waste, may even prove to
of problems pertinent to each topic. A text book will also be used.
Text-Books.—Sandiford's Mental and Physical Life of School Children
and Colvin's The Learning Process.
Daily, from 9:30 to 10:30. Professor Hall-Quest. Peabody Hall,
Room 4.
8. Principles of Teaching and Studying Advanced.—The course
aims to treat of economical methods of classroom procedure, including
Lesson Types, Methods of Supervised Study, Discipline.
The results of recent investigations in classroom management will
be referred to. The emphasis will be placed on the most practical
phases of the teacher's classroom problems. The place and meaning
of personality will be discussed in connection with all of the
topics. The general method will be lectures and discussions. A
text will be used also.
Text-Books.—Hall-Quest's Supervised Study and Strayer's The
Teaching Process.
Daily from 12:15 to 1:15. Professor Hall-Quest. Peabody Hall,
Room 4.
9. History of Education.—A very brief review will be given to the
slow evolution of educational conceptions, purposes, and ideals first
up to the Reformation, then from the Reformation to the opening
of the nineteenth century. The main study in the course will be
confined to the period from the year 1800 to the present. Special
attention will be given to the inseparable relationship between education
and other institutional factors in national life, showing that
educational ideals and educational systems are at the same time
causes and results. Emphasis will be placed upon the present educational
ideals, aims, and tendencies in the United States.
Text-Book.—Monroe's Brief Course in the History of Education.
Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor Hall-Quest. Peabody
Hall, Room 4.
10. Rural School Problems (with special relation to one and two
teacher schools).—This course should appeal to all teachers, supervisors,
and administrative officers who are interested in the problems
of the open country and the village. It will embrace problems
of rural school management, courses of study, instructural needs,
methods of teaching, affiliated activities and outside interests, recreation
and playgrounds, problems of organization and administration.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Professor Manahan. Peabody Hall,
Room 3.
11. Principles of Elementary Education.—This course is 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, Macmillan.
Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Miss Hickman. Peabody Hall, Room 2.
12. Principles of Teaching and Studying.—This course is planned
for the second year's work for primary grade teachers and includes
the scientific study of the child; material from the fields of biology
and child psychology selected and summarized as a background
for the pedagogical application; the pedagogy of the primary
handwork, literature, reading, handwriting, nature study, busy work,
outdoor play, discipline; the conversation of child life.
Text-Book.—Gesell's The Normal Child and Primary Education. Ginn
& Co.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Miss Hickman. Peabody Hall, Room 1.
13. Principles of Teaching and Studying—Elementary.—This
course is designed for the second years work for grammar grade
teachers and includes general principles of behavior; fundamental
learning processes; other factors in behavior; the nervous system;
habitual actions; sensation and behavior, perception and behavior;
imagination and memory; the higher thought processes.
Text-Book.—Human Behavior, Colvin and Bagly, Macmillan.
Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Miss Barrett. Peabody Hall, Room 1.
14. Kindergarten Program and Methods.—For teachers of experience
in Kindergarten work who desire further study. A review
will be given of the history of the Kindergarten movement, and a
study made of its present aims and needs. The Kindergarten program
will be discussed. The materials of the Kindergarten, gifts,
handwork, games, songs, and stories, will be studied in the light
of our present knowledge of the child's needs both physical and
mental. Observation in the Demonstration Kindergarten connected
with the Summer School will be an important feature of the course.
Daily, 2:30 to 3:30. Miss Stockard. Peabody Hall, Room 4.
15. Demonstration Kindergarten and Conference.—In conference
hour questions arising from observation in the Demonstration
School will be answered. There will also be discussion of method,
materials, and aims of the Kindergarten. Charts of work done by
children of the Washington City Public Kindergartens will be used
to illustrate process and possible result.
Daily, Demonstration 9:30 to 11:30. Miss Stockard and Miss
Barrett. Wash. Hall.
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.
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.
16. The Teaching of Reading.—I. The technique of teaching
reading, to translate the symbol into sound. Phonics, phrases and
simple sentences, sources and values. II. The art of teaching
reading, to translate the sound into thought; assignment of lessons,
silent and oral reading, etc. III. The basis of the reading lesson,
values of curriculums; literature in the grades, adaptation to grades
1 to 4, reproduction.
Daily, — Section I, 3:30 to 4:30. Section II from 4:30
to 5:30. Miss Fox. Peabody Hall, Room 2. Three weeks only,
beginning June 20th.
17. The Teaching of Reading.—Demonstration lessons in methods
of teaching the Howell-Williams Method of Teaching Reading—
Several sections of this class will be formed—Demonstrations will
be given daily from 8:30 to 10:30 at Midway School Building in
the regularly organized vacation school and an effort will be made
to have also one class daily in Peabody Hall. Miss Bronson.
18. School for Scout Masters.—This work includes:
(1) A course of lectures with readings, conferences and book reviews
on the Juvenile Problem from a sociological point of view.
The purpose of this course is: (a) To arouse an intelligent interest
in scouting among teachers; (b) To meet the needs of men actively
engaged in Scout work from both a theoretical and practical point
of view. Credit will be given in the School of Education for the
above course. Some of the topics discussed will be: A Local Organization
and Its Relation to the Community; Benefits of Scout
Work for Boys; Organization and Leadership; The Adolescent Boy;
The Function and Nature of Play; The American Boy and His Relation
to Social Problems; The Scout Program and Its Relationship to
Family Life; Scout Problems and Country Life; Scout Efficiency and
Its Relation to Citizenship.
(2) Lectures and demonstrations at special hours by men who are
authorities on the following subjects: Local Bird and Animal Life;
Forestry and Conversation; Local Rock and G eographical Formations;
Indoor and Outdoor Programs for Scout Work; Knot Tying;
First Aid and Bandaging; Special Demonstrations in Fire Building,
Tracking, etc.; Camp management. Bibliographies will be furnished
students in connection with the above courses.
Daily, 4:30 to 5:30. Peabody Hall, Room 1. Mr. Bacon.
Camp Fire Girls.—There will be an organization of Camp Fire
Girls and a number of Demonstrations and Special lectures will be
given.
Note.—The Principals' Meeting of the Virginia State Teachers'
Association will be held at the Summer School for one week beginning
June 26th. A special program is being prepared for this
meeting and specialists will discuss various administrative problems
of interest to principals.
University College Credit.—Any student fulfilling conditions on
page 18 and who completes Courses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7, will be
given credit for corresponding courses in the University of Virginia
Catalogue.
Certificate Credit.—Summer School Professional Certificate—Advanced
Grade—Education 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Summer School
Professional Certificate—High School Grade—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
Summer School Professional Certificate—Grammar Grade—Education
7, 8, 10, 11, 13; Summer School Professional Certificate—Primary
Grade—Education 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.
| University of Virginia record March 15, 1916 | |