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"Several years ago the faculty of Allie Yniestra Elementary School of Pensacola, Florida, under the leadership of a progressive, professional principal, agreed to place the children into the various rooms of each grade according to their...
"The author, who is engaged in the supervision of health and physical education in Escambia County, has for his purposes in preparing this paper: (1) to study the scope of the school health program, (2) to examine and analyze good...
One of the most important responsibilities of the elementary school is the teaching of reading. It is more important today than ever before for children and adults to know how to read. This is true both for personal and social growth....
The desire to make the study reported in this paper came from four recent developments in the area of human relations as they apply to educational leadership. First, the writer was asked to participate in the Annual Supervisors...
"Principals and teachers are being challenged as never before to provide more abundant living and learning in the schools of America. More and more we hear such typical expressions as; 'the schools should provide the children of our...
The social studies, in some form, has had a significant part in the curricula of our schools almost from the beginning of public education. Today, the social studies is conceived as having certain primary functions in relation to the...
Reading has been a persistent problem since schools began. They were established primarily to teach children to read. This was necessary in order to bring our written language into general use. The public today usually determines its...
Recording the progress of children and reporting to parents is one of the important responsibilities of the elementary school today. Reporting is a request by parents to know about the progress or lack of progress of children, but there...
This study was made by a teacher who wishes to further her professional growth by gaining perspective and by getting under way a consistent, intelligent program directed toward the personal and social growth of children in her classroom.
Lafayette County is definitely an agricultural county, and as such, its population is small. Three thousand nine hundred ninety-five people are scattered over an area of five hundred fifty-one miles. This wide distribution of people has...
"It is the purpose of this paper to analyze the problems included in a directed reading program, to secure information regarding materials available, and to formulate plans. In order to carry out these plans it will be necessary to...
When school opens each year, the children of America start to elementary school, approximately 26, 000, 000 strong, in schools that are small, medium, large in size with all types of desks, in buildings that are adequately or inadequately...
"The writer has heard a great deal concerning intelligence and the use of intelligence tests. However, not all of the opinions expressed have been in agreement, and there seems to be a large area of uncertainty for the classroom teacher...
"Wanting to help children to overcome any fears that might be foremost in them, the writer wishes to make a study of principles of teaching arithmetic and apply in the classroom certain of these principles in an effort to help children...
The Problem.--Today every child is expected to learn to read. What was the accomplishment of a few persons only two or three generations ago is now required of every child. Reading is not easily learned by some children. Therefore...
"It is the purpose of this paper to explore the professional literature in the field of reading in order that the writer may improve her teaching techniques, thereby aiding each child to develop further his reading abilities. An effort...
"It is the purpose of the writer to explore, through this paper, the field of materials of instruction in order to ascertain how a supervisor of instruction in a small rural county might work effectively so as to improve the learning...
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