Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inexperienced students, who start for the most part in secondary schools, it is necessary to place much emphasis on supervised practice in teaching. The University has an agreement with eight cities and towns in the vicinity by which students are given the opportunity to teach under direction, and this work forms the basis for all training in the technique of classroom practice. At the same time, students of this group study the general problems of the institution in which they are to work; the mental and physical development of adolescents; the characteristics of the secondary-school population; the aims...
...educational practise. Students of varying purpose and varying ambitions are, of course, desirable and welcome and a number of special programs are provided, as for example in physical education. Although the School wants most those men and women who seek something more than mere drill in the business of teaching, it includes among its aims that of rendering inexperienced students more immediately effective in their first school posts. The requirements of various states and cites for licenses to teach now make some technical work in education a necessity, and such requirements are amply met by the offering of the School...
Dean Holmes then explained that although between 17,000 and 18,000 new high school teachers are needed a year here, only a few hundred are necessary in France and Germany. This demonstrates the importance of training teachers to teach and of interesting young men and women in the profession. The Dean closed with an appeal for teachers to withstand the temptation of offers to become mere administrators with slightly higher salaries when they could be of more service to mankind as educators...
...John's University of Shanghai also is desirous of obtaining the services of several American college men for three year terms to teach in Physics, Political Science, and Commerce departments. China's ancient civilization in this transition age is being modernized, and no stronger influence to the progress of development is at work than that of institutions like St. John...
...other departments of the University the cost of instruction is, generally speaking, still larger in proportion to the tuition paid, men in some departments paying only one-fifth or less of what it costs to teach them...