Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teaching and class management as a means of stimulating and guiding the learner. Assignments to practice positions in the schools are made after three weeks of preliminary study in the course. The first task of the practice teacher is to observe classroom work. As soon as the student becomes familiar with the work of the class to which he is assigned, he is permitted gradually to participate in the teaching. At the end of the year most of the teachers will be in full charge of classes. The supervision of the teaching is under the general direction of Professor...
Those who are familiar with teaching conditions in the secondary schools of this country are impressed with the oft-noted inability of new teachers to deal with actual teaching problems as presented by classroom experience? The art of successful teaching requires the knack of dealing with the human element just as much as it necessitates mental capability. In teaching, as in everything else, experience brings ultimate perfection, and often the early years of a teacher's career may be mainly spent in setting accustomed to handling classes...
...first time I visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying. 'Have you forgotten...
...that was advertised at some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest." The Saturday Night Kid is a better product than such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed of such familiar elements as one sister's sacrifices for another who repays her by stealing her clothes and her fiance's affections, it is effective because it gives the well-made, impetuous Miss Bow a part that suits her. Between sentimental passages the routine of a great U. S. department store...
...Plain Talk), Lawrence H. Whiting (1913, now president of Indiana Limestone Co.), Charles Glore (1910, now manager of Field, Glore & Co., investments). And in the class of 1907 Barber Bratfish well knew the stripling figure of Harold Higgins Swift, now vice president of Swift & Co. (packers) and still a familiar figure at the university, of whose board of trustees he is president...