The Good Education of Youth: Forty-fourth Annual Schoolmen's Week Proceedings 9781512802177

Table of contents :
Editor's Preface
Contents
I. General
Education in a Free Society
New Schools for Old
Helping Pupils Understand Mass Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques
Enjoying Our Differences
II. Administration
Teacher Competence and Its Relation to Salary
Schedule Making in the Large School
Constructive Use of the Noon Hour
The Law and the Teacher
ΙII. Research
The Hallmarks of Scholarship and Research
Research in the Improvement of Instruction
IV. Special Education
The Next Step in Special Education
V. Elementary Education
Helping New 'Teachers Grow
Reading and Social Growth
A Project on the Evaluation of Elementary Education
The World Our Children Face
What Science Do Children Know?
Arithmetic for the Able Learner
VI. Secondary Education
The Community School Idea in Secondary Education
Leadership at the National Level
Tomorrow' s Junior High School
Teaming Up for Progress in the Junior High School
The Core or Common Learnings Curriculum
VII. Music and Art
Art for Every Child
VIII. Nursing Education
Functions, Standards, Qualifications of the School Nurse
IX. Guidance and Vocational Education
Preparedness and the Freedom to Choose One s Occupation
Some New Developments in 'Testing Achievement
Technical Education in Russia and Its Implications for American Civilization
The Unique Contribution of the School Social Worker to the Child's School Development
X. Teaching Language and Literature
The Novel in the Literature Course
The Contemporaneousness of the English Novel
Toward a Fuller Life
Linguistics in the Service of Language Teachers
XI. Summaries and Reports
1. Administration
Eight Points to Remember in Making the Junior High School Schedule
Do's and Don'ts in Building Double Session Programs
Partners–School Administrators and Librarians
School Lunch and Nutrition
Teacher Retirement Problems
School Law
2. Special Education
Identifying Exceptional Children
Helping Exceptional Children
School Library Service to the Slow Learner
Classroom Procedures to Meet the Needs of Slow-Learning Adolescents
Implications of Pennsylvania Legislation for the Education of Exceptional Children
Special Education for Children Who Deviate Physically
3. Elementary Education
Writing to Reinforce and Organize Experience
Clinic for Elementary School Teachers
4. Secondary Education
Parents–Teachers–Youth Work Together
Your A-V (I.Q.)
The Gifted Student as Future Scientist
Improving Reading in the Secondary Schools
Current Teaching Methods as Practiced in Different Schools
Flight Changes Classroom Instruction
Teacher Rating by Pupils
Teenage Halloween Behavior Patterns: Laymen and Schoolmen Co-operate
Outdoor Education
Playground Equipment: Construction, Selection, and Safe Use
Let's Remove the "Gooflickus" from Secondary Mathematics
The Use of Puppets in Creative Teaching
Significant Practices in Language Arts
Workshop for Business Teachers
Initiating and Conducting a Science Fair
As a Science Judge Looks at a Science Fair
Practical Considerations in Planning High School Science Courses
5. Music and Art
Art in the Total School Program
Children's Paintings Around the World
Participative Concepts for the Junior High School General Music Class
Music in the Intermediate Grades
Creative Rhythms
Instrumental Music Clinic
Survey of New Choral Materials
6. Nursing Education
Articulation Problems Between High Schools and Schools of Nursing
7. Guidance and Vocational Education
Industrial Education's Contribution to Living and Work
A Program to Inform Schools about American Business and Industry
Industrial Arts and Vocational Industrial Education
Organizing and Using Occupational Information
Trade and Industrial Education and Certification
Appendix: Schoolmen's Week Committees
Index