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METHODOLOGY.

A part of the work under this head must be a study of the mental and moral effects of different methods of teaching and examination, the relative value of individual and class instruction at different periods of school life, and in the study of different branches. The art of questioning is to be studied in its foundation principles and by the illustration of the best examples. Some review of the branches which are to be taught may be made, making the teacher's knowledge of them ready and distinct as to the relations of the several parts of the subject to one another and of the whole to kindred subjects. These and many such subjects should be discussed in the class in pedagogy, investigation should be begun, and the lines on which it can be followed should be distinctly laid down.

The laws of psychology, or the capabilities and methods of mind. activity, are themselves the fundamental laws of teaching, which is the act of exciting normal and profitable mind action. Beyond these fundamental laws, the principles of education are to be derived inductively. These inductions when brought to test will be found to be rational inferences from psychological laws and thus founded upon and explained by them.

SCHOOL ECONOMY.

School economy, though a factor of great importance in the teacher's training, can be best studied by the teacher of some maturity and experience, and is of more value in the equipment of secondary than of elementary teachers. Only its outlines and fundamental principles should be studied in the ordinary training school.

HISTORY OF EDUCATION.

Breadth of mind consists in the power to view facts and opinions from the standpoints of others. It is this truth which makes the study of history in a full, appreciative way so influential in giving mental breadth. This general advantage the history of education has in still larger degree, because our interest in the views and experiences of those engaged like us in training the young enables us to enter more fully into their thoughts and purposes than we could into those of the warrior or ruler. From the efforts of the man we imagine his surroundings, which we contrast with our own. To the abstract element of theoretical truth is added the warm human interest we feel in the hero, the generous partisan of truth. The history of education is particu larly full of examples of noble purpose, advanced thought, and moral heroism. It is inspiring to fill our minds with these human ideals. We read in the success of the unpractical Pestalozzi the award made to self-sacrifice, sympathy, and enthusiasm expended in giving application to a vital truth.

But with enthusiasm for ideals history gives us caution, warns us against the moving of the pendulum, and gives us points of departure from which to measure progress. It gives us courage to attack difficult problems. It shows which the abiding problems are-those that can be solved only by waiting, and not tossed aside by a supreme effort. It shows us the progress of the race, the changing ideals of the perfect man, and the means by which men have sought to realize these ideals. We can from its study better answer the question, What is education, what may it accomplish, and how may its ideals be realized? It gives the evolution of the present and explains anomalies in our work. And yet the history of education is not a subject to be treated extensively in a training school. All but the outlines may better be reserved for later professional reading.

TRAINING IN TEACHING.

Training to teach requires (1) schools for observation and (2) schools for practice.

Of necessity, these schools must be separate in purpose and in organization. A practice school can not be a model school. The pupil teachers should have the opportunity to observe the best models of the teaching art; and the manner, methods, and devices of the model teacher should be noted, discussed, and referred to the foundation principles on which they rest. Allowable modifications of this observed work may be suggested by the pupil teacher and approved by the teacher in charge.

There should be selected certain of the best teachers in regular school work whom the pupil teachers may be sent to observe. The pupil teachers should take no part in the school work nor cause any change therein. They should, however, be told in advance by the teacher what purpose she seeks to accomplish. This excites expectation and brings into consciousness the apperceiving ideas by which the suggestions of the exercise, as they develop, may be seized and assimilated.

At first these visits should be made in company with their teacher of methods, and the work of a single class in one subject should be first observed. After such visits the teacher of methods in the given subjeet should discuss with the pupil teachers the work observed. The pupil teachers should first describe the work they have seen and specify the excellencies noted, and tell why these things are commendable and upon what laws of teaching they are based. Next the pupil teachers should question the teacher of methods as to the cause, purpose, or influence of things noted, and matters of doubtful propriety-if there be such-should be considered. Then the teacher in turn should question her pupil teachers as to matters that seem to have escaped their notice, as to the motive of the model teacher, as to the reason for the order of treatment, or form of question, wherein lay the merit of her

method, the secret of her power. When pupil teachers have made such observations several times, with several teachers and in several subjects, the broader investigation may be made as to the organization of one of the model rooms, its daily programme of recitations and of study, the methods of discipline, the relations between pupils and teacher, the "school spirit," the school movements, and class progress. This work should be done before teaching groups or classes of pupils is attempted, and should form an occasional exercise during the period of practice teaching as a matter of relief and inspiration. If an artist requires the suggestive help of a good example that stirs his own originality, why should not a teacher?

THE PRACTICE SCHOOL.

During the course in methodology certain steps closely preparatory to practice teaching may be taken. (1) The pupil teacher may analyze the topic to be taught, noting essentials and incidentals, seeking the connections of the subject with the mental possessions of the pupils to be considered and the sequences from these points of contact to the knowledge to be gained under instruction. (2) Next, plans of lessons may be prepared and series of questions for teaching the given subject. (3) Giving lessons to fellow pupil teachers leads to familiarity with the mechanism of class work, such as calling, directing, and dismissing classes, gives the beginner ease and self-confidence, leads to careful preparation of lessons, gives skill in asking questions and in the use of apparatus.

The practice teaching should be in another school, preferably in a different building, and should commence with group teaching in a recitation room apart from the schoolroom. Actual teaching of small groups of children gives opportunity for the study of the child mind in its efforts at reception and assimilation of new ideas and shows the modifications in lesson plans that must be made to adapt the subjectmatter to the child's tastes and activities. But the independent charge for a considerable time of a schoolroom with a full quota of pupils, the pupil teacher and the children being much of the time the sole occupants of the room-in short, the realization of ordinary school conditions, with the opportunity to go for advice to a friendly critic-is the most valuable practice; and no practice short of this can be considered of great value except as preparation for this chief form of preparatory practice. All this work should have its due proportion only, or evil may result. For example, lesson plans tend to formalism, to self-conceit, to work in few and narrow lines, to study of subjects rather than of pupils; lessons to fellow pupils make one self-conscious, hinder the growth of enthusiasm in work, and are entirely barren if carried beyond a very few exercises; teaching groups of children for considerable time. unfits the teacher for the double burden of discipline and instruction, to bear both of which simultaneously and easily is the teacher's greatest difficulty and most essential power.

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. Provision for the extended practice which is here recommended can be made only by city training schools and by normal schools having connection with the schools of a city. To set apart a building of several rooms as a school of practice will answer the purpose only when there are very few teachers in training. In order to give each pupil teacher. a year of practice the number of practice rooms must equal the number of teachers to be graduated annually from the training school, be the number 10, or 50, or 500. In any considerable city a school for practice will not suffice; many schools for practice must be secured. This can be done by selecting one excellent teacher in each of a sufficient number of school buildings and making her a critic teacher, giving her charge of two schoolrooms, in each of which is placed a pupil teacher for training.

This insures that the teaching shall be done as nearly as may be under ordinary conditions, brings the pupil teachers at once into the

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