METHODS OF TEACHING IN HIGH SCHOOLS
By Samuel Chester Parker, The University of Chicago
xxv + 529 pages, illustrated
A careful study of the principles underlying the actual class work of high-school teachers. The scope and method are indicated by some of the chapter titles: Economy in Classroom Management; Reflective Thinking; Conversational Methods; Laboratory Methods; The Art of Questioning; Measuring the Results of Teaching. For reading and general reference the book will be most helpful to high-school teachers.
[TWO BOOKS ON ELEMENTARY EDUCATION]
SCHOOL EFFICIENCY
By Henry Eastman Bennett, Professor of Education, College of William and Mary.
The first aim of “School Efficiency” is to be practical and genuinely helpful to teachers. It aims also to set higher ideals in this field than are usually associated with the practical attitude. The author has discussed topics which claim the attention of the teacher on every day of the school year,—school grounds, buildings, lighting, heat and ventilation, health inspection, marking systems and reports, discipline, and many others,—and in discussing them has kept ever uppermost in his mind the average school of average opportunities and the teacher of average ability, which is one of the important reasons why this volume is a real contribution to the teacher’s library. 374 pages, illustrated
HISTORY OF MODERN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
By Samuel Chester Parker, Professor of Education, The University of Chicago.