Word: learner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice teaching is conducted in close connection with the theoretical study of the process of learning and the problems of 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...
...studied medicine at McGill, took advanced instruction at Johns Hopkins and Manhattan Presbyterian Hospital, taught therapeutics after the War at the University of Edinburgh. At Edinburgh he received his LL. D. His service with the Canadian Expeditionary force brought him his Lieutenant-Colonelcy. Colleagues praise him as an alert learner, a learned instructor...
...which it is felt are peculiarly unsuited to casebook instruction it is possible to formulate very specific adverse criticisms: 1. that the material is placed before the student in a form at once fragmentary and incoherent. 2. that the books are necessarily choked with irrelevant matter which overwhelms the learner and, so far from stimulating his mental processes, deadens them. 3. that the knowledge imparted is often startling in its superficiality and precarious by reason of its want of foundation...
Primarily and logically the relation between professor and undergraduate is that between teacher and learner. When the roles are reversed, as they are by the publication of student criticisms, the orderly course of college life is seriously disturbed...