GENERAL DIRECTIONS
Before going to the classes for observation determine which of the topics outlined below you are going to make the subject of special study. It will be advantageous for you to learn the questions.
Go prepared to take notes. Confine your attention after the first general observations outlined below to the particular topic on which you are to report. Take down facts and definite individual observations. You are at liberty to talk with teachers if you can do so without imposing on them, but your report is not to be based on what they say but on what you see. Do not quote from books on the subject of your study.
Prepare a report of not less than two thousand words.
GENERAL QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED IN EACH REPORT
1. In what school or schools did you make your observations?
2. How many visits did you make, and how long was each? (Give dates and minutes.)
3. What was the grade of the class, and what was the subject of instruction?
4. Report on the physical conditions of each room. What was the condition of the temperature, of the lighting, of the ventilation? What kind of furniture was used? Did you see signs of fatigue on the part of teacher or pupils?
After noting these general external conditions, turn your attention to one of the problems outlined below and prepare your report with reference to that single topic.