ness and buoyancy in the teacher necessary to a healthy tone in the school, 22; the critical season of the year for school-room government, 22-25; irritating influences dur- ing the first weeks of autumn, 23-24; the difficulty of re- adjustment, 24-25; gradual introduction to school work in the autumn, 25-26; problem of vacation, 26-29; a shorter school-day but a longer school year, 27-28; physical de- fects as causes of disorder, 29-34; the effect of decaying teeth, 30-31; the effect of adenoids, 31-32; description of concrete cases, 32-33; influence of visual and auditory de- fects, 33-34.
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, in expression, 268-270. See Nat-
SELF-HELPFULNESS. See Initiative.
SENTIMENTALITY, in dealing with the child, 49; elimina- tion of masculinity in the training of children, 52; mas- culine vs. feminine methods in training the young, 53; hypertrophy of our sensibilities, 53-55; corporal punish- ment, 55-58; soft methods in training, 56–58.
SINGING. See Music.
SLANG. See Unconventional Language.
SOCIAL BASIS, of language learning, 248-253; language as a social instrument, 244–249; motive for acquiring expres- sion, 251-253.
SONGS, action, 211; which children choose spontaneously, 211-212; portraying ethical and ideal feelings, 212-215. See Music.
SPEAKING PIECES. See Naturalness.
SPELLING, the teaching of, 167; as a typical technical sub- ject, 168; a practical test, 189; a true test of ability to spell, 169-170; spelling lists, 171; choosing lists of words, 172-173; learning spelling for future needs, 172-174; read- ing vs. spelling, 174; carrying drill too far in spelling, 174-176; a wasteful method of teaching spelling, 177–178; waste in attacking too complex unities, 179-180; syllabica-
tion, 180-181; analyzing words, 182-183; spelling words as unities, 183; wasteful habits of study, 184-187; too long lessons, 187-188; the ear as an aid in spelling, 188–189. SPIRITLESS TEACHING. See Novices. SPOILED CHILD, 35-45; a concrete case, 35-38; how the spoiled child is made unhappy, 36; development of a bully, 37; illustrations from the training of a dog or a horse, 37; how an animal may be spoiled, 39; short-sightedness in training a child, 41-43; danger of spoiling the "cunning" child, 42; how insolence may be developed, 42; how bully- ing is regarded at a later period, 43; “breaking” an animal, 43; letting the child alone, 44-45.
SPONTANEITY, in the use of language, 254. See Arts of Communication, Unconventional Language.
SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITIES, necessary in the school- room, 4. See School-room Government.
STUDY, evil habits in, 184-185; waste in preparing lessons, 185-187.
SUCCESS, establishing feelings of, 86; making school-room correction individual and inconspicuous, 89–92; having the tone of success rather than of failure dominate the school- room, 90-92.
SYLLABICATION, in spelling, 180-181. See Spelling. TEETH, decaying, as causes of distraction and disorder, 30-31.
THE FAVORITE PUPIL, 46-49; tragedy of a child being favored for superficial reasons, 49; children of distin- guished parents, 48-49. See Discipline, Spoiled Child. THERAPEUTIC MEASURES, in the training of the young, 62-63. THINKING ABILITY, development of in pupils, 104-165;
the chief topic in present-day educational discussions, 104; the spur to clear thinking, 105-107; dynamic teaching essential to, 106; the test of a good method, 107; under- standing vs. reciting, 107-108; the test applied to a his-
tory lesson, 108-114; formal exactness vs. effective think- ing, 109-110; dealing with facts that relate to every-day life, 111-112; teaching heroes of peace as well as of war, 113; the test applied to teaching of civil government, 114- 122; formal, remote treatment of vital affairs, 114-116; a concrete case of a dynamic method, 116-118; thinking straight on the subject of taxation, 118; tracing govern- mental relations in social groups, 119-121; test applied to teaching arithmetic, 122-138; failure of a typical pupil in his arithmetic work, 122-123; mere verbal reading of prob- lems, 123-124; an experiment in correcting defective rea- soning, 124-126; verbal study of weights and measures, 126-127; dealing with actual units, 127-128; useful prob- lems in relation to clear thinking, 128-130; problems should relate to actual needs and experience, 131–133; useful problems for the city pupil, 133–134; the cure for inaccurate thinking, 135; self-correction of inaccurate work, 137-138; the relation of clear thinking to a good memory, 139-140; concrete instance of obscure teaching, 140-141; another method of procedure, 141-143; actual execution essential to clear thinking, 143-144; test applied in geography, 144-151; difficulties in mathematical geog- raphy, 147-149; failure to bind facts in causal relations, 149-151; a good subject for effective teaching, 153–154; teaching pupils to take the initiative, 154–155; concrete illustration, 155-157; home study by pupils and training in self-helpfulness, 158-163; the typical parent's method of "helping" a child, 159-162; teaching to satisfy formal requirements only, 162-164; guiding vs. helping pupils, 164-165. UNCONVENTIONAL LANGUAGE, 255–267; tests regard- ing unconventionality of special phrases, 255-258; varia- tions in different localities, 257-258; phrases in process of acquiring respectability, 258-260; attitude of conservative people toward, 260-261; changes taking place among us,
261; how unconventional becomes conventional speech, 262-264; attitude of the teacher toward slang, 264-266; giving youth its linguistic swing, 266–267.
UNITIES, relation of simple to more complex in teaching spelling, 179-183; in the teaching of music, 217-219; im- portance of the smaller unities, 222; confusion from at- tacking too large unities, 222-224.
VACATION, problems of, 6-29; a shorter school-day but a longer school year, 27-28. See Autumn, Readjustment. VISUAL DEFECTS, as cause of dullness and disorder, 33-34. VITAL EDUCATION. See Arithmetic, Civil Government, Drawing, Geography, Girls, History, Music, Spelling, Thinking Ability.
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