Every Teacher's Problems

Here is a book that does well in helping to solve the problems met with by the majority of teachers, if not by every teacher. There is always a minority of unusual teachers who can solve their own problems, as they can always make their own experience. But for the average teacher, and the one below average, the two hundred forty-one problems proposed (about a third of which are disposed of in the discussion) will be of concrete help. These problems deal with questions of discipline, subject matter, method, and the relationship of the teacher to other teachers, to supervisors, to superintendent, and to parents. The book follows the inductive method. The aim as stated in the last paragraph (in accordance with the method followed) is "to help teachers to recognize their problems, to work them out, to formulate principles and to organize these principles into a working philosophy of education." In attaining this aim the author has followed a problem method somewhat similar to the "case method" used in certain law schools. The problems are concrete, are evidently drawn from an extensive experience, and deal with cases that are constantly arising in ordinary school practice. The working philosophy that the author has arrived at by experimentation has two very commendable principles running through it: a recognition of individual differences among children and an open-minded professional attitude on the part of teachers. Of course these principles have always been postulated in regard to the true learner and the true teacher, but it is good at this time to know that the individuality of the child continues to give rise to problems, and that there is for each problem a practical and fair way for the teacher to solve it.

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Publisher: American Book Co

Year: 1922

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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