Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Hanford recommended student participation in the H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs as "a unique opportunity," in a statement yesterday, and called his own part in the 1937 conference "one of the most valuable experiences in my work as a teacher of Government...
...also feel that he is highly regarded as the twentieth-century American teacher of Communism who is just another Charlie McCarthy on Stalin's knee...
...positive request is better than a negative one: Children were almost twice as careful when a teacher said "Keep the clay on the board" as when she said, "Try not to get it all over everything." > Encouragement is more effective than disapproval. When a teacher said "You can do it," children were more persistent and successful than when she asked "Is it too hard for you?" When she said "You can do it" in a sarcastic tone, they were discouraged...
...likely to do it correctly without instructions a week later. To this rule there was, however, a significant exception. Although a simple command had a more potent immediate effect than a verbose explanation, the effect of the explanation was more lasting. Thus the children who were confused by a teacher's discourse on the glass animals the first time, a week later were more likely to play with the animals and put them away voluntarily...
...appointment of Mr. Hicks to a position in the department of English could be respectfully asked merely on the basis of his recognized scholarship in the field on greatly strengthened by the success as a teacher which led 250 students to put their names to a petition demanding his retention on the basis of his work this year. Unfortunately for the head-in-sand opponents of everything Mr. Hicks stand for, the Committee of Eight published its report on tenure and appointment at the wrong time. Here is the definite statement that a university should not merely tolerate "heretics" among...