Report of Examinations of Schools in Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Teachers college, Columbia university, 1880 - 118 halaman
 

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Halaman 250 - THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GRADUATE LIBRARY DATE DUE BOOK CARD DO NOT REMOVE A Charge will be...
Halaman 130 - The test in silent reading was applied by giving each pupil a printed narrative, which he read silently, and then wrote in his own language from memory. He was allowed about six minutes for the silent reading, and about an hour for the writing. The following is the narrative : — " Cyrus, the Persian prince, had many masters, who endeavored to teach him every thing that was good ; and he was educated with several little boys about his own age.
Halaman 152 - ... 45 the spelling of the words dictated solely for spelling are comparatively uniform for the towns throughout the county ; some whose rank is low in the general averages and in the spelling in sentences taking a high rank in the spelling of the words dictated for spelling, while the opposite is the result with some that hold a high rank in the general averages and in the spelling in sentences. In general the principles stated above appear to be sustained by the spelling in the schools of the upper...
Halaman 130 - There were two boys, one of whom was a great and the other a little boy. Now it happened that the little boy had a coat that was much too big for him ; but the great boy had one that scarcely reached below his middle, and was too tight for him in every part...
Halaman 130 - The little hoy would not consent to the proposal, on which the great boy took his coat away by force, and gave his own to the little boy in exchange. While they were disputing upon this subject I chanced to pass by, and they agreed to make me judge of the affair. But I decided that the little boy should keep the little coat, and the great boy the great one— for which judgment my master punished me.' "'Why so?' said Cyrus' father; 'was not the little coat most proper for the little boy, and the...
Halaman 130 - ... coat, and the great boy the great one ; for which judgment my master punished me. " Why so ?" said Cyrus's father ; " was not the little coat most proper for the little boy, and the large coat for the great boy?
Halaman 145 - Cyphus the Prince of Persia he and a another boy went out to walk he had a long fîoat on which was to big for. him the other boy had a coat which was to small for hin and only came down to his middle, and he wanted the little boy to let him take his coat (and the big boy) woud let him take his little coat so Cyphus father came and said why wood you not let him take the big coat and he wood take the little coat so he we went home and he become a prince VIII.
Halaman 130 - but my master told me I was not made judge to examine which coat best fitted. either of the boys, but to decide whether it was just that the great boy should take away the coat of the little one against his consent; and therefore I decided unjustly, and deserved to be punished.
Halaman 150 - ... &c., were misspelt when used in composition by the same class of pupils who spelt " deluge, colonel, deterring," and " supersede," from dictation, with accuracy. The words, "whose, which," and "father," when spelt orally, were generally correct, but when written in sentences they were frequently, in many schools, in a majority of cases,, erroneous. The correct spelling in the primary grade of the words dictated with reference to spelling, also of those given in sentences, illustrates the necessity...
Halaman 163 - My experience in other schools for a number of years leads me to the conclusion, that the schools of Norfolk County are not, as a whole, better or worse than similar schools in other parts of our State. The conditions which make schools poor or good are the same everywhere. Their failures result from poor organization, insufficient appliances for teaching, or from the teaching itself. These in their turn result from inadequate support and from an ineffective supervision. The examinations clearly...

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