SCHOOL OF METHODS
July 6 to July 24
ELEMENTARY SCIENCE- Supt. Monroe.
Sept. Monroe will give five talks on Elementary Science as the basis
of language, drawing and from study, with special reference to plants,
animals and minerals. There will be several lessons in the mounting
of plants, dissection of animals and analysis of minerals. He will
also give two lessons in history, with special reference to the teaching
of this subject y means of supplementary reading.
PEDAGOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY- Supt. Keyes.
Supt. Keyes will give fifteen talks on the following topics: Psychology
and its Relations to Pedagogics; The Mind and its Faculties, How
Studied; Sermation and Perception; The Senses, Methods of Devel-
opment; Conception, its Relation to Education; Abstraction and
Nature Study; Attention, the [Thesis] of Power; Judgment and its
Cultivation; Association and its Laws; Memory, its laws and
Improvement; The Reasoning Power and its Development; Imag-
nation and its Claim for Attention; The Emotions and their Rela-
tions to Education; Desire and Education; The Will.
GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY- Supt. Monroe.
Supt. Monroe will also give a series of three talks on Methods of Teach-
ing Geography and several lessons in Sand Modelling and the making
of Salt, Putty and Paper-Maché Maps.
DRAWING- Mr. C. C. Swofford.
1. Mr. Swofford will consider position, pencil-holding, drawing of lines,
horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and circles.
2. Estimating, viewing objects, representation in three views of rectang-
ular forms.
3. Working drawings, projections, sections, planes, elevations.
4. Circles, elliptical forms, [ovoid] vase forms.
5. Foreshortening and representation of forms in all positions, isometric
drawing.
6. [Plotting] forms, conventionalizing, etc.
7. Ornamentation, [quatrefell], units of design, spirals, etc.
8. Shake and Shadows.
9. Perception, linear and aerial.
10. Application of form slowly and geometrical drawing to pictorial
representation
ARITHMETIC- Mr. A. W. Plummer.
Mr. Plummer will consider each topics as the following: What Shall It
Do for the Pupil? How Shall It Be Done? Notation and Numera-
tion; Fundamental Operations; Analysis; Factoring; Greatest
Common Divisor; L. C. M.; Conciliation; Fractions, Decimals
and Short Methods; Percentage, Proportion, involution and Evolu-
tion, [Meneration.]
KINDERGARTEN- Mrs. Nora D. Mayhew.
[Frochel's] Gifts and Occupations.
1st Gift- (Halls) Form, Movement, Color.
2nd Gift- Sphere, Cylinder and Cube.
3rd Gift- Divided Cube.
Paper folding, Sewing, Weaving, Paper-cutting, [Press] Work, Modelling.
MUSIC- Mrs. J. Powell Rice.
Mrs. Rice will drill upon some perception, developed by colors and
unusual signs. She will give attention to development of [rope] work.
Transpositions as taught in primary and grammar schools; How to
use children's voices; How to develop part-singing; Tonic Sol-Fa.
CIVICS AND HISTORY- E. P. Rowell.
Object of Government; Its Need; Its Relation to the People and
their duty to it; Its Divisons and their Relationship.
PENMANSHIP- Mr. L. B. Lawson.
PHYSICAL CULTURE- Miss Helen Mar Bennett.
Miss Bennett will give a special course to all who desire in the Delsarte
system of Gymnastics.
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
July 6 to Aug. 14
PHYSIOLOGY, ALGEBRA, GEOMETRY, PHYSICS, BOT-
ANY AND ENTOMOLOGY- A. W. Plummer.
ARITHMETIC, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, GRAMMAR
AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT- E. P. Rowell.
