Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adult should use specific words. For example, twice as many children wound a swimming toy correctly when a teacher said "Wind it backwards" as when she said "Wind it this...
...Simple instructions are more persuasive. When a teacher, pointing to glass toys, said "Put them away in the red box," 34 of 37 moppets did so. But when she said: "We have to be very careful of these glass animals. We wrap them up in tissue paper. We put them away in a red box. ... It would be too bad to break them. . . . You put them away," only seven children responded correctly...
...Pleasant words are more effective. When children refused to dress a doll, the teacher got much better results by saying "Please do" than by scolding: "I don't understand why you refuse. . . . You shouldn't refuse to dress the doll." Exception: to the pleasant approach one peewee responded: "Nuts...
Grim, grey-haired Dr. Bessie R. Burchett, a high-school Latin teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils...
...report immediately sound the tonic note an clarion tones. The Committee has made a conscious effort to reduce the uncertainty, insecurity, and bewilderment which nag the shorten the period of probation before a permanent appointments. Such also is its formulation of definite and positive criteria for advancement. The young teacher will now know what to aim for, what to stress; and he need no longer cower so abjectly before the dread god Publication. Together these recommendations should effectively dull the Demolition sword suspended over the lower academic ranks...