Chapter IV: The Teaching of the Rural School

=The Importance of Teaching=

1. Teaching the fundamental purpose of the school 92

2. The child and the subject-matter 92

3. The teacher as an intermediary between child
and subject-matter 93

4. Hence the teacher must know the nature of the child 94

5. The teacher must know the subject-matter of education 95

6. Failure to measure up to this requirement 97

=Teaching in the Rural School=

1. The degree of training of rural teachers in the
subject-matter 98

2. Present lack of professional training 100

3. The effects of inexperience 101

4. Short tenure of service in rural schools 102

5. Level of teaching efficiency low 103

6. Improvement through consolidated schools 104

=The Training of Rural Teachers=

1. Inexperienced and untrained teachers begin in
the rural schools 105

2. Normal schools supply few teachers to rural schools 106

3. A reasonable demand for training of rural teachers 107

4. Rural teacher training in normal high schools 107

5. The rural teacher's training must be adapted to
spirit of rural school 108

=Salaries of Rural Teachers=

1. Salary as a measure of efficiency 109

2. Salaries of rural teachers compared with town
and city teachers 110

3. Necessity of increased salaries 111

4. Increase in salary and in efficiency must go together 111

5. Salaries in consolidated schools 112

=Supervision of Rural Teaching=

1. Impossibility of giving district schools efficient
supervision 112

2. Obstacle in number of schools and frequent
change of teachers 113

3. Comparison of work of county superintendent
with city superintendent 114

4. Political handicaps on county superintendent 115

5. The necessity of better educational standards
and better salary for the county superintendent 116

6. Women as county superintendents 116

7. Efficient supervision possible only under a consolidated
system 117

RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL MONOGRAPHS

_GENERAL EDUCATIONAL THEORY_

DEWEY'S MORAL PRINCIPLES IN EDUCATION .35

ELIOT'S EDUCATION FOR EFFICIENCY .35

ELIOT'S TENDENCY TO THE CONCRETE AND PRACTICAL IN MODERN EDUCATION .35

EMERSON'S EDUCATION .35

FISKE'S THE MEANING OF INFANCY .35

HYDE'S THE TEACHER'S PHILOSOPHY .35

PALMER'S THE IDEAL TEACHER .35

PROSSER'S THE TEACHER AND OLD AGE .60

TERMAN'S THE TEACHER'S HEALTH .60

THORNDIKE'S INDIVIDUALITY .35

_ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION OF SCHOOLS_

BETTS'S NEW IDEALS IN RURAL SCHOOLS .60

BLOOMFIELD'S VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE OF YOUTH .60

CABOT'S VOLUNTEER HELP TO THE SCHOOLS .60

COLE'S INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS .35

CUBBERLEY'S CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF EDUCATION .35

CUBBERLEY'S THE IMPROVEMENT OF RURAL SCHOOLS .35

LEWIS'S DEMOCRACY'S HIGH SCHOOL .60

PERRY'S STATUS OF THE TEACHER .35

SNEDDEN'S THE PROBLEM OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION .35

TROWBRIDGE'S THE HOME SCHOOL .60

WEEKS'S THE PEOPLE'S SCHOOL .60

_METHODS OF TEACHING_

BAILEY'S ART EDUCATION .60

BETTS'S THE RECITATION .60

CAMPAGNAC'S THE TEACHING OF COMPOSITION .35

COOLEY'S LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE GRADES .35

DEWEY'S INTEREST AND EFFORT IN EDUCATION .60

EARHART'S TEACHING CHILDREN TO STUDY .60

EVANS'S TEACHING OF HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS .35

FAIRCHILD'S THE TEACHING OF POETRY IN THE HIGH SCHOOL

HALIBURTON AND SMITH'S TEACHING POETRY IN THE GRADES .60

HARTWELL'S THE TEACHING OF HISTORY .35

HAYNES'S ECONOMICS IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL .60

KILPATRICK'S THE MONTESSORI SYSTEM EXAMINED .35

PALMER'S ETHICAL AND MORAL INSTRUCTION IN THE SCHOOLS .35

PALMER'S SELF-CULTIVATION IN ENGLISH .35

SUZZALLO'S THE TEACHING OF PRIMARY ARITHMETIC .60

SUZZALLO'S THE TEACHING OF SPELLING .60

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