Unified Kindergarten and First-grade Teaching, by S.C. Parker and Alice Temple |
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15 minutes ability groups activities adapted ALICE TEMPLE arithmetic blackboard Boston child civic-moral classroom curriculum content daily program discussion E. L. Thorndike Elementary School emphasized enjoyment of leisure equipment essential social skills example factors first-grade children first-grade curriculum first-grade programs first-grade room first-grade teacher Friedrich Froebel Froebel garten give habits haircloth handwriting happiness ideals ideas important instruction interest isolated kindergarten Jessie Willcox Smith kinder kindergarten and first-grade kindergarten children little children materials mental ability mental ages minutes 20 minutes modern movement old-fashioned first grade period phonetics physical plays and games practice primary education primary schools principles problems psychological objectives psychological organization pupil maturity pupil-activity religious Rousseau scientific seat selecting session skill in reading social objectives social service space special periods study of social subjects suggested toys unified kindergarten unified program University of Chicago
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Page 58 - ... at least fifteen square feet of floor space and two hundred cubic feet of air space for each pupil to be accommodated in each study or recitation room...
Page 6 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues...
Page 100 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Page 6 - Lord assisting our endeavors; it is therefore ordered by this court and authority thereof, that every township within this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 7 - We do not know childhood. Acting on the false ideas we have of it, the farther we go the farther we wander from the right path. Those who are wisest are attached to what is important for men to know, without considering what children are able to apprehend. They are always looking for the man in the child, without thinking of what he was before he became a man. This is the study...
Page 7 - I am most intent, to the end that, though my method may be chimerical and false, profit may always be derived from my observations. I may have a very poor conception of what ought to be done, but I think I have a correct view of the subject on which we are to operate.
Page 5 - By him was I taught my A, B, C, D, E, F, G, my a, b, abs, and my e, b, ebs, after the old, old way, — praised because ancestral, — the old gentleman holding an old book in his old hand, and pointing, with an old pin, to the old letters on the old page, and making each of us chicks repeat their several names, till we could tell them at sight, though we did not know what it was all for.
Page 87 - Cubberley, Ellwood P. The Principal and His School. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923.
Page 14 - One of the traditions of the school is of a visitor who, in its early days, called to see the kindergarten. On being told that the school had not as yet established one, she asked if there were not singing, drawing, manual training, plays and dramatizations, and attention to the children's social relations. When her questions were answered in the affirmative, she remarked, both triumphantly and indignantly, that that was what she understood by a kindergarten, and she did not know what was meant by...
Page 29 - Nature would have them children before they are men. If we try to invert this order we shall produce a forced fruit immature and flavourless, fruit which will be rotten before it is ripe; we shall have young doctors and old children.