Do you.
At one of our many special teacher training college
students in any college a study of a diary of subjects at their work is approached
with special reference to methods of teaching children they become acquainted with
different kinds of texts and teaching aids.
Like these play materials for use with little children which the College stands to
schools around the lake
and they study the more general problems of education and grow.
Not only intellectual growth
but the development of personality as a whole clarifying their own ideas
and learning from the experience of older teachers by discussion in the classroom
and odd moments like this one during a red herring teaching as an art
the art of translating all lesson permission
and theory into a thousand various applications which are the individual children
in the classroom
and so perhaps the most important part of this college is its laboratory schools
where future teachers can study children in all aspects of their school arrive
first of all by observing experienced teachers at work
and then by beginning to supervise children in simple tasks
by helping with jobs like testing a child's ability.
By exploring with children some of the modern visual aid to education
by observing children during periods of prayer creative activity.
And most important.
Learning to think of children as people they must get to know before they can know
how best to teach them. Let's look at a couple of examples.
This is Jack.
He wants to coach high school athletics and to teach biology is a good student
and an excellent athlete.
But he makes a common mistake as soon as he begins to practice culture
that Frances boxing matches the Arran
to the ethic years about the women much patting on about how much grey body it
narrows the body was lost.
We need to encourage men to much more than the winner.
Or take this fifty odd dash
when Johnny the bat for a rival then last gasp born this way
but crudely makes fun of him.
Most of the boys laugh but there is run to dust
and reeking of trying to look as though he didn't care much about the whole
business.
It's clear that something is bothering him.
And he seems to have had enough of jack
out for notices Henry's behavior.
He also notices
that its significance is lost on Jack was probably occupied a coach for
and Jack's back alley advisor work out a little plan that may help guide.
One of the required courses.
Student makes a detailed study of some particular child.
Jack is given a card with the name and grade of a boy on it.
Money money comes to the prostrate room in the laboratory school to get acquainted
with the pupil assigned during.
It talks with a brief teacher who shows him where the boy will sit
and then he goes to the rear of the room.
The usual place for class observation
pupils at the laboratory school Rice are used to visitors
but they pay little attention to them
yet wonder which boy has been assigned to him and is disappointed to find
that it's the same boys read puzzle.
I'm on the field
but here Henry is in his element behavior in the classroom is quite different from
his behavior on the playground
and
when we've been sure of himself almost to English are already Know Jack begins to
wonder how these two Henrys are connected
after class the teacher shows Jack some of Henry's right.
It's clear that she sees a different side of Henry when he does.
In the following weeks Jack visits more than risk rats
and talks to all of Henry's teacher
and there are other sources where Jack can find clues to the puzzle again soon as
possible to make the point.
Nice to talk with Henry's pal.
Mrs King is friendly and cooperative when Jack explains what he's doing.
Imagine how different the Bryce seems in the school room
and out on the plains where the lines at the family moved to town a few.
Months ago that Henry is an only child
that is very high strung proud of what he can do well.
Shame to write every day is correct
and responded confirms this account in the next city is never quite understood the
bright shining
and welcomes Jack's insane. Jack.
Continues his study by looking up Henry's wreckage and reports trying to analyze.
Body as learn. By the time he gets to is written upright.
He thinks he understands what some of Henry's difficulty is
and is anxious to help it.
Few days later the boys in Henry's class are out on the field for a high jump
as usual.
Henry seems afraid to try.
With the coach's permission.
Jack takes a surprised Henry across the field to a place where he can practice
jumping unobserved by the other bright jackets to get out the right Henri needs is
a little success in just such a competitive sport is jumping and
that this can give him the kind of assurance.
Which the two easy successes of the classroom can never giving.
Although he is finally realize that above all he mustn't laugh at Henry.
Henry isn't breaking any records this first day.
But he has started to gain the self-confidence which will help him overcome the
shyness. Jack is beginning to acquire that understanding of the individual child.
Thank you for becoming a successful teacher.
And there are other kinds of understanding. This is a lay.
An excellent student proud of her high marks
but she doesn't have many close friends
and spends most of her time in the library
or in a room where they're both lanes
chief concern is to please her teachers.
Now all of the study is good and necessary preparation for teaching
but you still has a lot to learn.
The shapers third grade has been learning about the children of other lads in the
lane has been observing them for several weeks.
She has been impressed by the fact they were getting
but she is not fully aware of the relationship between the teacher and the class
and how we shape or uses their own questions and answers
and encourages them to take part in the class so
that it becomes an opportunity for each individual to contribute something
and to learn from the others all in a moment comes for which he's been waiting so
long for asked her to take the class parole. While.
Elaine uses it as a chance to display our own money.
And starts off with a lecture.
These children are used to taking an active pride in the craft
but they can't take part in a lecture. And they soon become restless.
This is a situation
that Elaine is not even allowed herself to imagine before face to face with it.
She becomes desperate.
App an hour later she is in the office of the dean of women her pride is hurt
and she is discouraged but is she done right again.
Or is that the answer to this question is not run of classroom procedure
but one of Elaine's own development and understanding a personal relationship.
Knowing that she has an excellent scholastic record.
The Dean advises her to spend more time with people and less with books.
Lane decided first of all to try getting into some sports.
She had never felt that she had time for sports.
Now she is finding out she not only enjoys learning a game at the G.
Soon begins to know
and enjoy the other girls much better than she ever has before becomes more ready.
More self-assured
and begins to make a place for herself in the life of the camp.
Again it also advised her to get all the experience she could with small children
and arrange for her to work with Mrs Robb head of the local day nursery which cares
for children of mothers who work
here.
She started learning things about children almost as soon as she arrived on learning
many different ways.
But the discovery that gave her the most satisfaction.
Was that she could enjoy children and
that they could enjoy her.
She is beginning to see
that teaching is not just a business of getting across information to address.
But first of all one of live.
Being with individual children sharing the excitement
and difficulties of their growing up is more up to the art of
teaching than everything Jack and Elaine have learned here.
Even the four long years of teachers college too short.
The young men and women and made a start toward a crying the understanding
and skills for the coming good teacher
a commencement is only the beginning. In a few months.
This Brian thousands of brazen girls all over the United States will be facing
their first classes on their own responsibility learning as much from the class as
the pupils from them learning patience in the face of the slow day to day progress.
Learning how to make runs ever they are teaching both clear
and interested in learning how to help their pupils to see their work as their own
education an opportunity to develop the art of teaching takes years of practice
and hog were many mistakes and many disappointments about.
The demands that a teacher cares that the bribes
and those who are our future shall develop their potentiality
and acquire the knowledge to fit them to make satisfactory lives for themselves
and to become useful
and responsible citizens whose.