Dr. Bell's System of Instruction: Broken Into Short Questions and Answers for the Use of Masters and Teachers in the National Schools

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Rivington, 1817 - 47 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 25 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Pàgina 7 - ... life and motion to every member of it. He inspects the classes one by one, and is occupied wherever there is most occasion for his services, and where they will best tell. He is to encourage the diffident, the timid, and the backward; to check and repress the forward and presumptuous ; to bestow just and ample commendation upon the diligent, attentive, and orderly, however dull their capacity or slow their progress ; to stimulate the ambitious, rouse the indolent, and make the idle bestir themselves...
Pàgina 16 - ... will become level, and spread itself thinly over the bottom. The teacher, who is sometimes the boy who last learned the alphabet himself, often an expert boy selected for the purpose, traces in the sand with his forefinger the letter A, of which there is a prototype before him. The scholar retraces the impression again and again, the teacher guiding his finger at first, if necessary; the sand is then smoothed with a shake. Next the scholar, looking at the letter before him, tries to copy it,...
Pàgina 7 - From his place (chair or desk) he overlooks the whole school, and gives life and motion to every member of it. He inspects the classes, one by one, and is occupied wherever there is most occasion for his services, and where they will best tell.
Pàgina 31 - ... whether it deserves a place in the register, or whether an immediate reprimand, or threat, may suffice. Our language, when enforcing his duty on the tutor, is, that it is the business of the pupil to be idle, if the tutor will allow it; and so on. This register is solemnly inspected and scrutinised, once a week, in presence of the whole school, drawn up in a circle for that purpose; when the nature* and consequence * Abstract lectures, which my schoolmaster tried for a while, are little attended...
Pàgina 7 - ... repress the forward and presumptuous: to bestow just and ample commendation upon the diligent, attentive, and orderly, however dull their capacity, or slow their progress; to stimulate the ambitious, rouse the indolent, and make the idle bestir themselves: in short, to deal out praise and displeasure, encouragement and threatening, according to the temper, disposition, and genius of the scholar. He is occasionally to hear and instruct the classes, or rather overlook and direct the teachers and...
Pàgina 16 - ... elementary sounds peculiar to that language, at an early age, when the organs of speech are pliant, and readily formed to any mould. In writing on sand, a tray or board (thirty-six inches by ten), with a ledge (of | an inch deep) on every side, may be prepared for a school. A little dry sand is put into it, so that with a shake it will become level, and spread itself thinly over the bottom. The teacher, who is sometimes the boy who last learned the alphabet himself, often an expert boy selected...
Pàgina 37 - ... cardinal rules of arithmetic, which indeed constitute the whole, let the same principle be still pursued. Let the elementary parts be perfectly learnt in classes by short, easy, and frequent lessons, repeated as often as necessary. Particularly before you begin to add, subtract, multiply, or divide, let every member of the class be able to say the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division tables respectively, in any and every way without the smallest hesitation or mistake. Examine thus,...
Pàgina 8 - ... and orderly, however dull their capacity, or slow their progress; to regulate the ambitious, rouse the slothful, and make the idle exert themselves; in short, to deal out praise and blame, encouragement and threatening, according to the temper, disposition, and genius of the scholar. He is occasionally to hear and instruct the classes himself, and far oftener to watch over the general order, seeing that his numerous agents are at their posts, and alert, (rather than acting himself,) and overlooking...
Pàgina 10 - ... in his class, and even to rise above it, and be promoted to a superior; and especially not to sink below it, and be degraded to an inferior class. When a boy has held a high rank in his class for some time, he has an option of being advanced to a superior class, where he is placed at the foot; and if, in a few days, he rises near the middle, he maintains a permanent footing in this class; if not, he must revert to his original class, as a scholar is far more profitably employed in learning easy...

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